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A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

A very compact, dark-colored

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

ng or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.

try or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

d (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.

Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

Flaxen-colored. [Obs.] Florio.

Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

Brass-colored.

Having a gold-colored head.

A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

re than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.