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A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.

s); the Siberian crab apple (Pyrus baccata); and the American (Pyrus coronaria). -- Crab grass. (Bot.) (a) A grass (Digitaria, or Panicum, sanguinalis); -- called also finger grass. (b) A grass of the genus Eleusine (E. Indica); -- called also dog's-tail grass, wire grass, etc. -- Crab louse (Zoöl.), a species of lou…

Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

A soft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa.

t; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green." Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot.

To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.

To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.

wn in drops. Or o'er the glebe distill the kindly rain. Pope. The dew which on the tender grass The evening had distilled. Drayton.

A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).

A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.

Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

cular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.

ous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum. -- Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.