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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ant-lion \Ant"-li`on\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is {Myrmeleon obsoletus}, the European is {M. formicarius}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mavournin \Ma*vour"nin\, Mavourneen \Ma*vour"neen\, n. [Ir. mo mhuirnin my darling; mo my + mhuirnin darling.] My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. [bd]Erin mavournin.[b8] --Campbell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mavournin \Ma*vour"nin\, Mavourneen \Ma*vour"neen\, n. [Ir. mo mhuirnin my darling; mo my + mhuirnin darling.] My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. [bd]Erin mavournin.[b8] --Campbell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mowburn \Mow"burn`\, v. i. To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green. | |
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Poison bush \Poison bush\ In Australia: (a) Any fabaceous shrub of the genus {Gastrolobium}, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as {Oxylobium}, {Gompholobium}, etc. (b) The plant {Myoporum deserti}, often distinguished as {Ellangowan poison bush} or {dogwood poison bush}. (c) The ulmaceous plant {Trema cannabina}, which, though not poisonous, is injurious to stock because of its large amount of fiber. | |
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Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [cced]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum Freycinetianum} and {S. pyrularium}, the Australian {S. latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}). {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum tenuifolium} of Tahiti. {Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also {red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and {rubywood}. |