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rtion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

nearly enough resemble each other. Sir W. Raleigh. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope.

Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [Prov. Eng.]

eaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw. Red republican. See under Red.

A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching. Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows. G. Eliot.

the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

ailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

The merest trifle; a straw. John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush. Arbuthnot. Bog rush. See under Bog. -- Club rush, any rush of the genus Scirpus. -- Flowering rush. See under Flowering. -- Nut rush (a) Any plant of the genus Scleria, rushlike plants with hard nutlike fruits. (b) A name for several species of…

sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak.

A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawbwrry. See Runner.

Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [Prov. Eng.]

Slight; thin; lean; poor. Having Grate on their scranned pipes of wretched straw. Milton.

Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.

ed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.

f the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. The reaper fills his greedy hands, And binds the golden sheaves in brittle bands. Dryden.

Made of straw. [Obs.] Shak.

anish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.…