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Having a winged corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea.

A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.

The French bean, or kidney bean.

A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.

A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.

The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

at or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.

nds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance. [Written also chinic, kinic.]

t of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies. [Written also Sabæan, and Sabean.]

lass, so called from St.Gobain in France, where it was manufactured. -- Saint Ignatius's bean (Bot.), the seed of a tree of the Philippines (Strychnos Ignatia), of properties similar to the nux vomica. -- Saint Jame's shell (Zoöl.), a pecten (Vola Jacobæus) worn by piligrims to the Holy Land. See Illust. under Scallo…

aland sassafras, a similar tree (Laurelia Novæ Zelandiæ). -- Sassafras nut. See Pichurim bean. -- Swamp sassafras, the sweet bay (Magnolia glauca). See Magnolia.

let cloth or thread. Scarlet admiral (Zoöl.), the red admiral. See under Red. -- Scarlet bean (Bot.), a kind of bean (Phaseolus multiflorus) having scarlet flowers; scarlet runner. -- Scarlet fever (Med.), a contagious febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet rash, appearing usually o…

ich wind in opposite directions. -- Screw alley. See Shaft alley, under Shaft. -- Screw bean. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree (Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is u…

n or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.

A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.

A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).

from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.