wheateel (hwetel)

[Appar. There wayted Summer naked starke, all saue a wheaten Golding, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., ii. hat. Peace should still her wheaten garland wear. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 41. (b) Made of the grain or flour of wheat. More hi uynt smak [she finds more relish] in ane zoure epple thanne in ane huetene lhoue [loaf]. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 82. Of wheaten flour shalt thou make them [cakes and wafers]. Ex. xxix. 2. His diet was of wheaten bread. Cowper , Epitaph on a Hare. wheat-field (hwēt'fēld), n . A field of wheat. wheat-fly (hwēt'fli), n . 1. Any one of several wheat in Europe and North America, as flies of the family Oscinidæ, common upon nis frit, Chlorops tæniopus, and C. line at a.- 2. The He ian fly.-3. The wheat-midge.-4. Improperly, a wheat plant-louse in the winged form. Compare greenfly, 2.-5. The wheat gall IMG:content-2267.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] fly, a variety of Isosoma horde i, whose larva is the wheat join joint-worm. See joint - worm, 2. wheat-grader ader (hwet grader), n. In mill milling, a machine for cl cleaning, separating, and gradin grading wheat according to the size and shape of the grains; a grain or wheat-separator. E. H. Knight. wheat-gra (hwet grås), n. The couch or quitch-gra , Agropyrum repens; also, any wild gra of the genus Agropyrum or Triticum. wheatland (hwēt'land), n. Land sown with wheat. 6889 Beyond the wheatlands in the northern pines. A. Lampman , The Academy, Nov. 23, 1889, p. 335. wheat-maggot (hwet'mag"ot), n. The larva of any one of the dipterous insects affecting the wheat-plant.