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One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.

An animal which produces tallow.

Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

To strip of flowers. [R.] G. Fletcher.

A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.

One who, or that which, wallows.

A willow. See Willow, n., 2.

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

Lowered; humbled.

To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] Donne.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Growing larger after flowering. Gray.

al vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

An animal of the class Anthozoa, and family Actinidæ. From a resemblance to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.