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A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus. Hare and hounds, a game played by men and boys, two, called hares, having a few minutes' start, and scattering bits of paper to indicate their course, being chased by the others, called the hounds, through a wide circuit. -- Hare kangaroo (Zoö…

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium ); -- so named from the shape of its leaves. Dr. Prior.

A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.

A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. Hare's-tail grass (Bot.), a species of grass (Lagurus ovatus) whose head resembles a hare's tail.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

ich has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also hairbell.] E'en the light harebell raised its head. Sir W. Scott .

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]

(Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot. Harefoot clover (Bot.), a species of clover (Trifolium arvense) with soft and silky heads.

See Harrier. A. Chalmers.

The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.

A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare. -- Hare"lipped`, a.

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

Herring-shaped.

To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]

t (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.

Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.

A beacon tower; a lighthouse. [Obs.]

The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle.