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ing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

Bent or curved in the form of a bow. "Arcuate stalks." Gray.

Silvery white. Gray.

ilver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.

for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

t bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

An awn. Gray.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

Pertaining a short beard or awn. Gray.

al properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Or…

occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.

rising obliquely; curving upward. Gray.

Subulate. See Subulate. Gray.

le or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.