weinmannia (was v)

[Named after John Wm. Weinmann, a Ratisbon apothecary and bot anist, who about 1750 published his Phytanthoza Bot.: The typical genus of Weinmannese (q.v.). Evergreen shrubs or trees, with reticulated petioles, compound or simple leaves, calyx four-parted, pet als four, stamens eight, an hypogynous disk, fruit a many-seeded capsule. About forty species are known, from South America, South Africa, Madagascar, New Zealand, . The bark is astringent; chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; welcome that of one species is used in Peru for tanning leather, and for adulterating Peruvian bark (q. v.), and that of W. tinct or i a is employed in Bourbon for dyeing red. weir, *wear, *wer, subst. [A. S. wer =a weir, a dam; lit. a defense, and allied to werian= to defend, to protect; Icel. võrra fenced-in landing place; vera fishing-station; Ger. wehr =a defense; wehren to defend; mühlwehr =a mill-dam.] 1. A dam acro a stream to raise the level of the water above it. The water may be conducted to a mill, a sluice, or a fish-trap. "A pleasant rumor smote the ear, Like water rushing through a weir ." Long fellow: Tales of a Wayside Inn . (Prelude.) 2. A fence or inclosure of stakes, twigs, or nets, set in a stream, or in a bay or inlet of the sea, to catch fish.