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A gunlock. [R.]

pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.

A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [Obs.]

Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.

The compass plant. See under Compass.

One who roughhews.

Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

One who rows with an oar.

See Rowen.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.

One who saws; a sawyer.

Gruyère cheese.

A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ.

Cleavers.

One who, or that which, screws.

A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.