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One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

The chub. Walton.

mon in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed. "Hay or other provender." Mortimer. Good provender laboring horses would have. Tusser.

See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. Lindley.

The French lavender (Lawandula Stachas).

A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.

to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd. As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money. Gen. xlii. 27. A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad. Wordsworth.

to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.

An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.

id fruit. -- Ground cuckoo. (Zoöl.) See Chaparral cock. -- Ground cypress. (Bot.) See Lavender cotton. -- Ground dove (Zoöl.), one of several small American pigeons of the genus Columbigallina, esp. C. passerina of the Southern United States, Mexico, etc. They live chiefly on the ground. -- Ground fish (Zoöl.), any…

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also sea lavender. -- Marsh samphire (Bot.), a plant (Salicornia herbacea) found along seacoasts. See Glasswort. -- Marsh St. John's-wort (Bot.), an American herb (Elodes Virginica) with small opposite leaves and flesh-colored flowers. --…