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ct whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa. -- Welsh onion. (Bot.) See Cibol. -- Wild onion (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Allium.

Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the än fär is open as compared with the a in say.

ure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.

of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels.

To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

rl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.

Precious stones; jewels. [Obs.] [Written also perre, perrye, etc.] Chaucer.

Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized; -- said of all the vowels and the semivowels, also of the vocal or sonant consonants g, d, b, l, r, v, z, etc.

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.

e uncommon and highly valuable metals, esp. gold and silver. -- Precious stones, gems; jewels.

Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure mathematics, that portion…

parating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

A famous diamond of fine quality, which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701.…

To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera. -- Rice weevil (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

ed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there. High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.