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root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

; to heap together; to accumulate. Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap. Woodward.

cupping. Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman.- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cu…

troduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]

o bend; to crouch; to cringe. [Obs.] Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good. Shak.

hould not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.

An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton.

another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. Pennant (Tour in Scotland.…

that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese. Holmes.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.

A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood.

e larvæ are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc. -- Dagger of lath, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. Shak. -- Double dagger, a mark of reference [||] which comes next in order after the dagger. -- To look, or speak, daggers, to look or speak fiercely or reproachfully.…

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.

of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

revent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.