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an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule. The caterpillars, when full- grown, have a grayish mottled appearance, with blue tubercles on the anterior and…

and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.

Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red. Hæmatic acid (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.

Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red.

A dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood, used medicinally as a hematinic.

alf truth, a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.

ith, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo. The fire That haloed round his saintly brow. Sothey.

A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes. W. Browne.

To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.

So as to raise difficulties. " The guestion is hard set". Sir T. Browne.

A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.

A player on the harp; a harper. W. Browne.

One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.

Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." Shak.