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A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.

Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness, n.

A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

m the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast." Macaulay.

To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest." Johnson.

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

ance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

e words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.

A brace used to join two or more staves.

ever alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.