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Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.

The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106 due one year hence is $100.

Usually Press work. The work of a press agent. [Chiefly Theat. Cant]

nting from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.

A shrub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

Same as Purpleheart.

All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.

Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the sh…

The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.

Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.

A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

Same as Rattlebox.

An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Cæsalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.

A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.

To repeat in the same words; to reëcho. [Obs.] Shak.

A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.

lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by…