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A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.

Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- n.

To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer. [Obs.]

de of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. Halliwell.

liar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidæ. Called a…

A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

The construction of a sewer or sewers.

A scarecrow. [Obs.] Trench.

One who shews. See Shower.

hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. In drought or else showers. Chaucer. Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.

Full of showers. Tennyson.

Quality of being showery.

Rainless; freo from showers.

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

t of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.