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Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Shak.

See Cerberus.

A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.

A plant which prduces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several of Amommum.

See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

ed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836. There was [formerly] some sense for commendams. Selden. Partnership in commendam. See under Partnership.

ee or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. [R.] The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.

Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [Obs.]

Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] Shak.

To damnify; to injure. [R.] Sandys.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of…

ly; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

An old woman; specifically, a grandmother. Shak.

See Forkbeard.

A fabulous sea monster. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Halidom.