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small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak.

The European robin.

The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.

A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid.

See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

ons are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

s colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

rrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. Pairy bluebird (Zoöl.), a brilliant Indian or East Indian bird of the genus Irena, of several species.

e and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

upine (Zoöl.) See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. -- Canada robin (Zoöl.), the cedar bird.

r or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875).

s) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin, etc.

or genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).

ardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake- robin.