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An open space between woods. Milton. "Orchard lawns and bowery hollows." Tennyson.

See Laund.

Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. Musing through the lawny park. T. Warton.

Same as Cyprus. Milton.

A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] Tusser.

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

Wearing, or protected by, bases. [Obs.] "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy. "A breezy day in May." Coleridge. 'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. "Caddises, cambrics, lawns." Shak.

inen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook.

The European spotted flycatcher. Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are substituted for wires.

rchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.

Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." Keats.

ning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. --…

It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic] A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope.