hermit-thrush

(hér’ mit-thrush’), n. A very adj., of the desert, Hern and i a 2807 and fertile, and the lateral ones staminate with short hernshaw? (hérn’sha),. [Formerly also hern pedicels, The leaves are alternate, entire, ovate or pelshew, a contr. of heronshaw; a var. of hernsew, tate, and the drupe is inclosed in the enlarged involucre. The plants grow in the tropical regions of both hem i heronsew (appar. not by a ociation with hern spheres. H. Sonora, or jack-in-a-box, is so called from the shawl, a heronry, which appears to be later): noise made by the wind whistling through its persistent see heronsew.| 1+. A heron; a heronsew. involucels, The juice of the leaves is a powerful depilatory, destroying the hair without pain wherever it is ap- As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight, plied. The wood is light; that of H. Guianensis takes At an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing. fire readily from a flint and steel, and is used in the same Spenser, F, Q., VI. vii. 9. Way as amadou. 2. In her., the representation of a heron, crane,