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Become wild. [R.] An old garden plant escaped and wilded. J. Earle.

r having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow. And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me. Campbell.

ty or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall.

Woodbine. Dryden. A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves. Chaucer.

slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.

Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.

lence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win or lose. Byron. -- Worth"less*ly, adv. -- Worth"less*ness, n.

Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.

A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor. Conquest doth grant He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant. Chapman. Far back in the ages, The plow with wreaths was crowned. Bryant.

into which this singular physiognomy was wreathed. Sir W. Scott. From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped. Milton.

The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.

Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.

of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.

na, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated.

sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak.

llow, especially D. æstiva, which is a very abundant and familiar species; -- called also garden warbler, golden warbler, summer yellowbird, summer warbler, and yellow-poll warbler. -- Yellow wash (Pharm.), yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water, -- a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater. -…

The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. [Obs.] Gardner.

Yonder. [Obs.] "Yond in the garden." Chaucer.

fornica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.

The tassels of twisted cords or threads on the corners of the upper garment worn by strict Jews. The Hebrew for this word is translated in both the Authorized and Revised Versions (Deut. xxii. 12) by the word "fringes."