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mous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. Hawthorne.

spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

ubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

sitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

d, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

ly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.

which are injurious to crops. -- Flower bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bird of the genus Anthornis, allied to the honey eaters. -- Flower bud, an unopened flower. -- Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. -- Flower head (Bot.), a compound f…

To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

o angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.

ardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin.

dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.

kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, e…

A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.