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general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. Milton. It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. Bp. Fell. The mechanical process of multiplying…

A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of making vulgar, or common.

To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.

In a vulgar manner.

The quality of being vulgar.

To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.

To cause to become or appear vulgar. [Obs.] Daniel.

Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.] Collier.

To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.

including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

ons to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

s or longing. It God had given to eagles an appetite to swim. Jer. Taylor. To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous. Macaulay.

urrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]…

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]