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A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed. -- E*rose"ly, adv.

educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.

A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.

r. T. Dwight. Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God. J. Hawes.

To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. Leave them to God above; him serve and fear. Milton.

Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.

The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]

A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.

d leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.

Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.

glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass. -- Glue plant (Bot.), a fucoid seaweed (Gloiopeltis tenax). -- Liquid glue, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid oralcohol. -- Marine glue, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.

To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.