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- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

d the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

wers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.:

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Angle of draught, the angle made with the plane over which a body is drawn by the line in which the pulling force acts, when the latter has the direction best adapted to overcome the obstacles of friction and the weight of the body. -- Black draught. See under Black, a. -- Blast draught, or Forced draught, the draugh…

One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.…

To fall in drops. The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. Spenser.

A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

he shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.)