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A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, as a grape.

The bearberry.

A conserve made of grapes.

Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] "Adjuvant causes." Howell.

Joint help; coöperation. Sir T. Browne.

An adjuvant.

birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. Tylor.

See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.

Prayers offered up for nine successive days.

Chrome garnet.

A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.

brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

ficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]

St. Leger. -- Saint Martin's herb (Bot.), a small tropical American violaceous plant (Sauvagesia erecta). It is very mucilaginous and is used in medicine.

- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. -- Swamp hen. (Zoöl.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (Porphyrio bellus); -- called also goollema. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail (Porzana Tabuensis); -- called also little swamp hen.…

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