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To plant under; specif. (Forestry),

Undulating. [R.]

Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.

Flying with sails; passing under full sail. [R.]

danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary. "Be sober, be vigilant." 1 Pet. v. 8. Sirs, take your places, and be vigilant. Shak.

In a vigilant manner.

A complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid.

nce, passing from place to place; current. English silver now was current, and our gold volant in the pope's court. Fuller.

A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba.

A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.

A windflower.

Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal.

One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast. [Obs.] To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious. Bacon.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

rmined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.