daucus

[Gr.] Bot.: A genus of umbelliferous plants. There are several species, one of which, Daucus carota , is spinous, somewhat ovate or oblong. Daucus gum mifer furnished what the old pharmacopeias *3. To make dirty, to stain. "He's honest, though daub'd with the dust of the mill." the origin of the Garden Carrot. The fruit is *II. Figuratively : Cunning ham: The Miller. 1. To cover over or disguise with something called Sicilian bdellium . specious. "So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue." Shakesp.: Richard III., iii. 5. 2. To cover with anything gaudy or tastele ; to dre up ostentatiously and showily. "Let him be daub'd with lace, live high, and whore." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. xvi. 3. To flatter gro ly, to bedaub with flattery. "I would not be a king to be beloved Causele , and daubed with undeserving praise." Cowper: Task , v. 359, 360. B. Intransitive: 1. Lit .: To smear, to bedaub, to paint coarsely. "Hasty daubing will but spoil the picture, and make it so unnatural as must want false light to set it off." Otway . *2. Fig .: To flatter gro ly, to bedaub with flattery. "Let every one, therefore, attend the sentence of his conscience; for, he may be sure it will not daub nor flatter." IMG:content-1831.png:[blocks in formation] dâughter ( gh silent), *dochter, *dohter, *dohtre, doghter, *doghtre, *doughter, *doughtyr, *douhter, 8. A. S. dohter . Cog. with Dut. dochter; Icel. dóttir ; Dan. datter , dotter; O. H. Ger. tohter ; Ger. tochter ; Sw. dotter ; Goth. dauhtar ; Gr. thygater .] IMG:content-1832.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: A cell proceeding from an original cell called a mother-cell. Its formation is preceded by the generation of fresh nuclei in addition to the nucleus existing in the mother-cell. ( Thomé .) Daughter of the Confederacy, s. A sobriquet given by Confederate veterans to Mi Varina Jefferson Davis, generally known throughout the United States as Mi "Winnie" Davis. She was the daughter of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern Confederacy, and was born in the Executive Mansion at Richmond, Va., in 1864. Mi Davis wrote several novels which had a wide circulation in the South. She died in 1898. Daughters of the American Revolution, s. A society composed of women who are descendants of ancestors who "with unfailing loyalty. rendered material aid to the cause of independence as a recognized patriot, as soldier or sailor, or as a civil officer in one of the several colonies or States.' It was organized in Washington, D. C., Oct. 11, 1890,