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A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).

of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving. Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock. Job xix. 24.

lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose.

nt, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's- quarters.

mall. " Like that Pygmean race." Milton. Pygmy antelope (Zoöl.), the kleeneboc. -- Pygmy goose (Zoöl.), any species of very small geese of the genus Nettapus, native of Africa, India, and Australia. -- Pygmy owl (Zoöl.), the gnome. Pygmy parrot (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small green parrots (Nasitern…

The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

h (Dict. econ. Plants). Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.

An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

ype. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.

Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. Gray.

A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.

ly the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.

Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell

A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.

a sly or secret manner. [Colloq.] "Gazed on Hetty's charms by the sly." G. Eliot. -- Sly goose (Zoöl.), the common sheldrake; -- so named from its craftiness.