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A species of willow.

alustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. -- Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.

catkin. Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees. Harvey.

resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.

A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]

ch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Sir T. Raleigh. Twig borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). --…

es along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvæ feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.

Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. G. W. Cable.

A kind of simple willow.

, and Thibetan wolf. (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf. -- White wren (Zoöl.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts.

Same as 1st Willow, 2.

The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow. Willying machine. Same as 1st Willow, 2

Willow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).

va that bores in wood; a wood borer. -- Wood wren. (Zoöl.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler.

ared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater. -- Yellow wren (Zoöl.) (a) The European willow warbler. (b) The European wood warbler.