Hat/tress

[O.F. mater as.^ A quilted bed, stuffed the with hair, wool, or other soft material, instead year of feathers. rotation song-thrush, not the screech-thrush. cle graved with a head or design upon it and i ued neck usually to celebrate or mark some great event. that foam.] A light, soft magnesian mineral, used being in Turkey and Germany in the manufacture of Met/als. tobacco-pipes. Gourd family, to which the cucumber also known belongs. It is an annual, with trailing stems, conductors angular leaves, yellow flowers, and bearing a exception large juicy fruit, which po e es a delicious grayish flavor. It is largely cultivated. The native cury, country of the melon is unknown, but there are 5. numerous varieties found throughout Europe, tures Asia, and America. The two principal kinds of very melons in the United States are the musk-melon heavier and the water-melon (citrullus). twenty resembling a supple elastic web, serving to secrete tenacity. a fluid, or to separate, envelop, and form other it organs. white color, also known by the name of quick¬ lead. silver. It is a liquid at ordinary temperatures, be becomes solid at 390 below zero F. and boils at out OF COMMON THINGS Encyclopedic Dictionary of Common Things