A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).
A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.
An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.
A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
The burbot of Lake Ontario.
An American hake of the genus Phycis.
A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
Flax.
Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.
The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.
Peruvian bark.
A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.