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A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob.

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.

Harbor dues; port dues.

A genus of plants related to the banana.

To retard or make too late. Davenant.

Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.

Without hire. Davenant.

The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers. Davenant.

To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.

The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan. Davenant.

To deserve; to procure by merit. [Obs.] Davenant.

ay complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. Davenant.

table and resident like a rock." Jer. TAylor. One there still resident as day and night. Davenant.

e firm in supporting. "We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you." Davenant. (b) To be troublesome by adhering. "I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me." Pope. -- To stick out. (a) To project; to be prominent. "His bones that were not seen stick out." Job xxxiii. 21…

Not to be stopped. Davenant.

Excessive or extraordinary gain. [Obs.] Davenant.

e Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. -- Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.