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Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

s relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

A participant in boycotting.

Methods of boycotters.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A corruption or corrupt state of art. [R.]

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

The wild poppy, or red corn rose.

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

Same as Dacotas. Longfellow.

To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion, n.

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

aving compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

See Scot, a tax. [Obs.]

See under Gun.

ris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.

Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.