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Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb.

Aftergrass.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

A description of the grasses.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johns…

nstruction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.…

ich in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.

ular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. Gibbon. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement…

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.