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ender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress. -- Lavender water, a perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot…

The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

A strong easterly wind peculiar to the Mediterranean. W. H. Russell.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

olmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.

A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.

out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. Shak.

tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

and of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton. The Mid-sea, the Mediterranean Sea. [Obs.]

Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. And on the midland sea the French had awed. Dryden.

To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.

that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects. -- Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical of…

A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

Mole cricket (Zoöl.), an orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole. It is said to do damage by injuring the roots of plants. The common European species (Gryllotalpa vulgaris), and the American (G. borealis), are the…

k seal (Zoöl.), a species of seal (Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. -- Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex Patientia).

A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.