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eous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

Destitute of haze. Tyndall.

Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. Mortimer.

The nut of the hazel. Shak.

The asarabacca.

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

The wych-elm.

The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

That divines; for divining. Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

cating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Tennyson. And that drags down his life. Tennyson. There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down. Addison. The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English.…

The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.

A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.

The witch-hazel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.

(a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires. Gay. (b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening. -- Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size. -- Small fruits. See under Fruit. -- Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper. -- S…

cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick. Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. Gay. Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. Dryden.