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The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak.

See Cauliflower.

Soot; smut. See 1st Colly. [Obs.]

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.

To flow across, or in a contrary direction. "His crossflowing course." Milton.

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.

To flow down. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

See Deflourer. Milton.

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God. 1 Pet. ii. 4. That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we m…

Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n.

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.

To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.