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A marker of perukes or wigs.

A wig; a periwig.

An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.

A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.

A polliwig.

The act of preconcerting; preconcert. Dr. T. Dwight.

In a profane manner. The character of God profanely impeached. Dr. T. Dwight.

o discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon. With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist. Cowper.

A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.

Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.

A bough or branch; a twig. [Obs.] As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.

Full of rods or twigs.

d, fixed, or established; to increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. "The bended twigs take root." Milton.

The government or jurisdiction of a sachem. Dr. T. Dwight.

The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.

the slander which, with a Satanic smile, exults over the character it has ruined. Dr. T. Dwight. -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Sa*tan"ic*al*ness, n.

s, when adult, become more or less scalelike in form. They are found upon the leaves and twigs of various trees and shrubs, and often do great damage to fruit trees. See Orange scale,under Orange. -- Scale moss (Bot.), any leafy-stemmed moss of the order Hepaticæ; -- so called from the small imbricated scalelike leave…

A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]

A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.