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That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.

A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. -- n.

A million webers.

The millionth part of one weber.

The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

rates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

The thousandth part of one weber.

To swear falsely.

To wear ill. [Obs.] Bacon.

To wed improperly.

To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken. [Obs.] Spenser.

To go wrong; to go astray. [Obs.] "The world is miswent." Gower.

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.