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A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

See Brassart.

Wearing a cuirass.

One who harasses.

Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not embarrassed. Specifically: --

Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright- colored.

al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

A description of the grasses.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johns…

struction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.…

lar or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. Gibbon. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement…

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.