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Coarse wool on the legs of sheep. Blount.

The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. [Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

Refuse wool. [Obs. or Prov.]

A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. [Written also dungari.] [India]

One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.

Same as Puggry.

Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.

Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.

See Vinaigrette, n., 2.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. [Obs.] Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak.

tivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra, doura, etc.]

A perennial plant of the genus Fæniculum (F.vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds. Smell of sweetest fennel. Milton. A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fenne…

riar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate,…