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The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

arpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zeland. Its hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

m its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth.

p. The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish. Baird.

ture, form, or substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.

A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. tricks of the trade mean simply specialized knowledge, in a good or neutral sense. He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. South. I know a trick worth two of that. Shak.…

Having three cocci, or roundish carpels. Gray.

A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

ry or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the pluraltrimmings..

ss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake. Imperfect words, with childish trips. Milton. Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. Harte.

Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. æstivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles. Truffle pig, a pig used for fin…

Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.

A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

eighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.] Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. -- Turnip flea (Zoöl.), a small flea-beetle (Haltica, or Phyllotreta, striolata), which feeds…

Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest. [Slang, U. S.] Bartlett.

A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.…

ica. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint.