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Old Norse poetry expressed in runes. Runes were upon his tongue, As on the warrior's sword. Longfellow. Rune stone, a stone bearing a runic inscription.

A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths. Sir W. Temple.

A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a.

shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton.

Thrush. Prunella salt (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.

A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

y bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison.

A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.

To prune with the knife.

wth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.