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common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.

large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] --…

ght or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through…

Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning." Thackeray. She is not bred so dull but she can learn. Shak.

A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.

Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law. Whitworth.

Over against; opposite to. [Now dialectic] The land forenenst the Greekish shore. Fairfax.

Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.

The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.