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A flock of wild geese. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

are or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.

nging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, n…

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. [Also gansa.] Johnson.

A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.

That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic. The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. Macaulay.

a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.

ng or fluting. Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

rvirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.