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The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, use…

a, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. -- Beach wagon,…

An imposition; a trick. [Obs.] Chaucer. Beard grass (Bot.), a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon. -- To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance.

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.

as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson.

the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. The grass blows from their graves to thy own. M. Arnold.

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- B…

bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

tle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed. [U.S.] -- Buffalo nut (Bot.), the oily and drupelike fruit of an Ame…

; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.