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One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." Pope.

A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).

c composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.

A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla.

n umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.

A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword. [Obs.] hak.

A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.

ny system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

Brazil wood.

site herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.

A female of noble rank; a peeress.

Worthy of observation or notice; remarkable.

A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.

Like an old woman; anile. -- Old`-wom"an*ish*ness, n.

The wood of the olive.

The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.

Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.