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A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.

name given to several plants having flowers of two shades of yellow, as Narcissus incomparabilis, and in the United States to the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris). -- Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. -- Butter print, a piece of carved wood…

owers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

to free governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish porposes". Crabb.

A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of…

A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.

Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.] Ten thousands of calamitous persons. South.

A cameo. [Obs.] Crabb.

, the mantis. -- Camel's thorn (Bot.), a low, leguminous shrub (Alhagi maurorum) of the Arabian desert, from which exudes a sweetish gum, which is one of the substances called manna.

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

ck, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. -- Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. -- Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon.

or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make. Grabb.

The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).