See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Astron.) A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a Mexican plant (Sedum morganianum) bearing small rose-colored flowers; called also burro's tail, horse's tail, and lamb's tail. RHUD [ PJC ]

n. a very long time; ages. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

adv. In a frisky manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Bot.) A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

def>A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An erect or climbing shrub (Fuchsia coccinea) of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers.
Syn. -- ladies'-eardrop, lady's-eardrops, ladies'-eardrops, Fuchsia coccinea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch, Anthyllis vulneraria; called also lady's fingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A long, slender variety of the potato. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) One of the branchiae of the lobster. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) A tall coarse annual (Abelmoschus esculentus) of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern U. S. and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; it is sometimes placed in the genus Hibiscus. [ wns=1 ] different from lady's fingers
Syn. -- okra, gumbo, okra plant, Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. (Bot.) Ribbon grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (Briza media); a variety of quaking grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European Alchemilla vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) (a) The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). (b) The black bryony (Tamus communis). [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina). [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis); cuckoo flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) The harebell. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. -ized p. pr. & vb. n. -izing ] [ (J. J. Lloyd) Margary, inventor of the process + -ize. ] To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A child who is fair of face; -- a reference to a nineteenth century poem. See below. [ PJC ]

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day,
Is lucky and happy and good and gay. [ PJC ]

(Bot.) A lofty coniferous Chilian tree (Araucaria araucana, formerly Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted “as to puzzle a monkey to climb.” It is also called monkey puzzle and monkey puzzle tree. The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called piñon by the Chilians. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } [ After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in 1877. ] (Naut.) A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance. The pistol used to fire the signal flare is called a
Very pistol. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]