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Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan.

Sandy; full of sand. Johnson.

Full of fine sand; like sand. [Obs.]

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

To outrun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

Having the neck bare.

The state of being bare.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.

Unfruitfully; unproductively.

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

See Coma Berenices, under Coma.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.