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opean grass (Nardus stricta). (b) Same as Matweed. -- Mat rush (Bot.), a kind of rush (Scirpus lacustris) used in England for making mats.

Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs. The winged choristers began To chirp their matins. Cleveland.

er. The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age. J. C. Shairp.

ded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. J. C. Shairp.

northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.

Old; ancient; as, the olden time. "A minstrel of the olden stamp." J. C. Shairp.

oetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.

To eradicate; to extirpate.

signation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep. There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Is. x. 14.

od; to pick up news.(c) to acquire (an infectious disease); as, to pick up a cold on the airplane. (d) To meet (a person) and induce to accompany one; as, to pick up a date at the mall. [See several other defs in MW10]

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.

To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds. Halliwell.

Strict adherence to official formalities. J. C. Shairp.

-- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. "Reflectiveness of manner." J. C. Shairp.

ity or state of being right; right relation. The craving for rightness with God. J. C. Shairp.

To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away. "I will go root away the noisome weeds." Shak. The Lord rooted them out of their land . . . and cast them into another land. Deut. xxix. 28.

by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson. To roup, that is, the sale of his crops, was over. J. C. Shairp.

marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.…