n
(usually in the plural) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
n
A cosmetic product used to moisturize the beard and the skin beneath it.
v
(transitive) To besmear or entangle with or as with bird-lime.
n
A sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds.
n
A compliment or expression of praise.
n
A small forest of briars.
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Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
n
Scraps of rubber that dry in the wounds made to the tree.
adj
Like or containing chaff.
n
A small enclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.
n
A flat area of mud populated by clams
n
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
n
A small piece, portion, or slice of something.
n
(uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
n
Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
n
A vessel in which the ingredients of soap are stirred with a crutch (form of prop).
n
(archaic) stubble field.
adj
(rare, dialectal or archaic) Made of elm wood.
n
An implement, traditionally consisting of a bundle of feathers (especially ostrich feathers) attached to a handle, used to remove surface dust.
n
Alternative spelling of fesh-fesh [Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.]
n
Alternative spelling of fesh-fesh [Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.]
n
A thicket of fern or bracken
n
Alternative spelling of fesh-fesh [Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.]
n
Alternative form of flesh glue [Synonym of sarcocol]
n
The selection and storage of cocoons in sericulture.
n
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
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A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
n
A thick hairstyling product containing wax, used to assist with holding the hair.
n
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of kibbles (coarse-ground grain etc.).
n
The tapered ending of a chamfer.
v
(transitive) To smear with birdlime.
n
Someone who limes; someone who uses bird-lime or who limewashes.
n
A twig or stick smeared with birdlime
v
(transitive, literally or figuratively) To beset with limetwigs or snares; to entangle or impede
n
(obsolete) Synonym of limerod
n
Alternative form of Lob Lie-by-the-fire [(mythology) A hairy man in English folklore, similar to the brownie, said to perform housework in return for a saucer of milk and a place beside the fire.]
adj
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a mattress; large, soft, and yielding.
n
A small bunch of fragrant flowers or herbs tied in a bundle, often presented as a gift; nosegays were originally intended to be put to the nose for the pleasant sensation or to mask unpleasant odours.
v
(intransitive) To hunt for pearls
adj
In the form of pellets.
adj
Having a consistency like pellets.
v
the leading shoot in order to encourage a bushy habit
n
(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
n
Alternative form of pounce (“powder for sprinkling over ink to dry it”) [(historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.]
n
A kind of willow basket.
adj
(historical, rare) Sprinkled with pulvillio.
n
(Now chiefly dialectal) Dandruff.
v
(intransitive, originally theater) Of an actor in a film, stage play, etc.: to repeat the word rhubarb to create the sound of indistinct conversation; hence, to converse indistinctly, to mumble.
n
(figuratively, uncountable, rare, usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
adj
(obsolete) Having a rind.
adj
(poetic) That makes sable or black.
adj
Resembling, or covered in, sawdust.
adj
Having a rough, granular surface, characteristic of shagreen
v
Alternative form of shellac [(transitive) To coat with shellac.]
v
(obsolete) To lop; to prune.
n
An event at which something is shucked.
v
(intransitive) To become covered with skin.
n
(archaic) laver (type of seaweed)
adj
abundant in spar (the mineral)
n
Alternative form of spatterdock (“species of water lily”) [A species of water lily, Nuphar advena]
n
(genetics) A small splinker.
n
A person who readily absorbs ideas.
n
A piece of otter dung. Usually used when referring to the observation and tracking of otters.
v
To decorate with sprigs, or with representations of sprigs, as in embroidery or pottery.
adj
Obsolete spelling of strawen [(archaic) Made of straw.]
v
To grease or smear with tallow.
n
Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
n
(US, dialect, archaic) A small quahog.
n
The cutting and gathering of teasels.
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Made of or consisting of thorns.
n
(UK dialectal) Branch; twig; shoot.
adj
Alternative form of toothpasty [(informal) Smeared or covered with toothpaste.]
adj
Full of twigs; twiggy.
n
(rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.
n
Alternative form of twissel [(rare) A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.]
n
A band of twisted twigs.
adj
Covered with woodchip.
n
(obsolete) A stump of a tree.
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