shrub1 (shrub)

t.; pret. and pp. shrubbed, ppr. shrubbing. [ Anderson, Expos. of Benedictus (1573), fol. 64. 2. To reduce (a person) to poverty by winning his whole stock: a word used at play. Halli well. [Prov. Eng.] shrub2 (shrub) n. [A var. of shrab ( There never was any liquor so good as rum- shrub , never; and the sausages had a flavor of Elysium. Thackeray , Philip, ii, scrubby.] 1. Abounding in shrubs. IMG:content-0980.png:[blocks in formation] These are their bread, the only bread they know; These and their willing slave the deer, that crops The shrubby herbage on their meagre hills. Armstrong , Art of Preserving Health, 1. 314. 3. Shrub-like; scrubby: said of stunted tree growths. The land about it is dry and sandy, bearing only a few shrubby trees. Dampier , Voyages, vi. 4. Somewhat woody: said of herbaceous plants with the stem more or le lignified in the older parts. The woods began to be very full of thorns and shrubby bushes. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 419). Shrubby althæa, bittersweet, horsetail. See the nouns.-Shrubby trefoil. See Ptelea . shruble (shrubʻles), a. [ -le .] Destitute even of shrubs. Among the stones I stood a stone, And was, scarce conscious what I wist, As shruble crags within the mist. Byron, Prisoner of Chillon, ix. n. See shrub-shilling (shrubs hi ling) shilling, Helix arbustorum. shrub-yellow root (shrub yel"ō-röt), n. A low shrubby ranunculaceous plant, Xanthorrhiza apiifolia, of the Alleghany region. Its bark and its rootstock are deep-yellow and bitter, and were once used by the Indians for dyeing.