wall barley

Botany: Hordeum murinum , a species with long brittle awns, which stick in the throat of the cattle which feed upon them. bôil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, IMG:content-0631.png:[blocks in formation] wall-butterfly, s. Entom.: Lasiommata megæra (Stainton), Pyrarga megæra (Newman), a European butterfly. Wings fulvous, with dark-brown markings; the fore ones with a black spot having a white center, and the hind ones with three similar spots and the rudiments of a fourth. Caterpillar green, with two yellowish lines on each side; the head and the tail reddish. It feeds on Timothy gra . wall-clamp, subst. A brace or tie to hold walls together, or the two parts of a double wall, to pre vent spreading. wall-creeper, s. Ornith.: Tichodroma muraria , a native of southern and central Europe. It frequents walls and perpendicular rocks in preference to trees, the favorite resort of the genus Certhia. It is a very pretty bird, about six inches long; plumage light gray, with bright crimson on the shoulders, the secondaries; the rest of the wings black; tail black, tipped with white. Called also Spider-catcher, from its habit of feeding on spiders and insects. (Will ugh by: Ornithology (ed. Ray), p. 143.) larger wing coverts, and the inner webs of the wall-cre , 8. [CRESS, 8., (32).] wall-desk, s. A bracket desk attached to a wall. wall-fern, 8. Bot.: Poly podium vulgare.