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A weaver's reed. [Spelt also slaie.]

Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).

vided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves re…

Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]

Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.

The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

fect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley.

the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man. "Anthropologic wisdom." Kingsley. -- An`thro*po*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

od at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

l on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Macaulay.

The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. "The approach of summer." Horsley. A nearer approach to the human type. Owen.