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ack or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers. Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. Milton. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. Milton. American ivy. (Bot.) See Virginia creeper. -- English ivy (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy proper (Hedera helix). -- German ivy (Bot.), a cr…

Covered with ivy.

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

ning to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. " Privee knights and squires." Chaucer.

Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.

With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound. Dryden.

To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.] Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. P…

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

To cover with, or as with, a canopy. "A bank with ivy canopied." Milton.

A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

ing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. -- To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed…

See Chivy, v. t. [Slang, Eng.] One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes. London Times.

To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.

he class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

A privy.

The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.