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A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

Speaking in different ways. [R.]

Resembling the Greek letter

Love of empty of empty talk or noise. Coleridge.

A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

birds whose young at first have down on the pterylæ only; -- called also Gymnopædes.

Having down upon the pterylæ only; -- said of the young of certain birds.

A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

An instrument for removing the tonsils.

The operation of removing the tonsil, or a portion thereof.

The 20th letter (U, u) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of oo as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y.

In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.

rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.

Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [

A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma Latisiliqua) the wood of which is used for boat trimming.

The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. 1 Kings vi. 19. Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. Milton.

A Mexican mimosaceous tree (Lysiloma candida), the bark of which is used in tanning.

oromandel coasts. -- Poison oak (Bot.), the poison ivy; also, the more shrubby Rhus diversiloba of California and Oregon. Poison sac. (Zoöl.) Same as Poison gland, above. See Illust. under Fang. -- Poison sumac (Bot.), a poisonous shrub of the genus Rhus (R. venenata); -- also called poison ash, poison dogwood, and p…