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A bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.

Agency; influence; production of effects. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

Having but one person, or form of existence.

Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

A small crested passerine bird (Phaïnopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.

Sinople.

Producing no effect; inoperative. [Obs.] South.

Destitute of an operculum, or cover.

Having elytra; sheath-winged. [R.]

ntic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.

A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa. The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. Tennyson.

ent, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

n Australian bird of the genus Anthornis, allied to the honey eaters. -- Flower bud, an unopened flower. -- Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. -- Flower head (Bot.), a compound flower in which all the florets are sessile on their recep…

small loose advertising sheet; a handbill. -- Fly snapper (Zoöl.), an American bird (Phainopepla nitens), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. -- Fly wheel (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration…

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.