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The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

nus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.

The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).

The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

rtion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.

he slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

See Endothorax.

To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge. [Obs.] Exauthorated for their unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To deprive of uthority. [Obs.] Selden.

The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

Same as Hemothorax.

A thorny shrub or tree (the Cratægus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. Gives not the hawthorn b…