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e characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow. And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me. Campbell.…

A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus. Spiked willow-herb, a perennial herb (Lythrum Salicaria) with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.

A thorny European shrub (Hippophaë rhamnoides) resembling a willow.

Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.

Same as Willow-weed.

Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.

A willow. See Willow, n., 2.

Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.

Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray.

A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.

er almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina). Shenstone.

In a slanting direction over; athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

isting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).

Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.

ucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnæus.)

White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.

or whether I speak of myself. John vii. 17. The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor.