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An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages in Oriental perfumery.

Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.

An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [Written also gournet.] Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.

A lazy or cowardly person; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

um tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 1862), who first described them.

A tube for producing Lenard rays.

A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry. [Written also reynard.]

Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned.

An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.

States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.

Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown color and vitreous luster.

The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

rass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.…

al species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa).

etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.