veerablet (verabl)

[ It is double misfortune to nation which thus to change, when they have a sovereign at the head of them that is prone to fall in with all the turns and veerings of the people. Add is on, Freeholder. IMG:content-1731.png:[blocks in formation] Veery ( Turdus (Hylocichla) fuscescens). thrushes common in the eastern parts of the United States. It is 74 inches long, 12 in extent, above uniform tawny-brown, below whitish, the throat buff with a few small spots. It is migratory, nests on the ground or very near it, and lays four or five greenish-blue eggs with thick woods and swamps, and is an exquisite songster. out spots. It is of shy and retiring habits, frequenting The place flows with birds: olive-backs, veeries, [and] ovenbirds. S. Judd , Margaret, ii. 1. vegal (vā'ga), n. [ vega = Cat. vega = Pg. veiga , an open plain, a tract of flat land; origin uncertain.] A tract of ground, low, flat, and moist. This word is confined chiefly to Spain and Cuba; in the latter it often denotes a 'tobacco-field." The best properties known as vegas , or tobacco farms, are comprised in a narrow area in the south-west part of the island [of Cuba). S. Hazard, Cuba with Pen and Pencil (London, 1873), [p. 329. Sometimes the water of entire rivers or vast artificial is used in feeding a dense network of canals reservoirs distributed over plains many square miles in extent. Such plains in Valencia and Murcia are known by the Spanish name of huertas (gardens), in And alus i a by the Arabic name of vegas , which has the same meaning. vegetaline the organs of plants. - Vegetable antimony, the thoroughwort, Eupatorium per folia tum. - Vegetable bezoar. Same as calapitte. - Vegetable brimstone. See brimstone and lycopode. - Vegetable bristles, the fibers of gomuti. Vegetable butters. See butter1 -Vegetable calomel, Podophyllum peltatum, the May-apple or mandrake.-Vegetable casein. Same as legumin.-Vegetable colic, intestinal pain caused by the use of green fruit. Vegetable earth. Same as vegetable mold.-Vegetable egg, the egg plant; also, the marmalade-fruit, Lu cum a mammosa. - Vegetable fibers. See fiber 1. - Vegetable fibrin. See fibrin. - Vegetable flannel, a fabric made from pine-needle wool (which see, under pine - needle ). - Vegetable fountain. See Phytocrene. - Vegetable gelatin, See gelatin. - Vegetable glue. See glue.Vegetable horsehair, a extracted from the leaves of the European palm, Chamærops humilis: used like horsehair for stuffing; also, the Spanish mo , Tillandsia usneoides, similarly used. -Vegetable ivory. See ivory nut.-Vegetable jelly, a gelatinous substance found in plants; pectin. - Vegetable kingdom, that division of natural objects which embraces vegetables or plants; the regnum vegetabile; Vegetabilia. - Vegetable lamb, the Agnus Scythicus or Tatarian lamb. See agnus. Eyes with mute tenderne her distant dam, Or seems to bleat, a vegetable lamb . Erasmus Darwin , Loves of Plants. ( Dyer .) Vegetable leather, marrow, mercury. See the nouns. - Vegetable mold, mold or soil containing a considerable proportion of vegetable constituents; mold consisting wholly or chiefly of humus. - Vegetable naphtha. Same as wood - naphtha . - Vegetable oyster. Same as oyster plant , 2.- Vegetable parchment. Same as parchment paper (which see, under paper ). - Vegetable physiology, that branch of botany which treats of the vital actions of plants, or of the offices which their various organs perform. - Vegetable serpent. Same as snake-cucum ber . See cucumber . - Vegetable sheep. Same as sheep plant. See Raoulia . - Vegetable silk, a fine and glo y fiber, kindred to silk-cotton, borne on the seeds of Chori sia speciosa in Brazil. The name is applicable to various similar substances. Compare silk - cotton , under cotton1. Vegetable sponge. See sponge - gourd . - Vegetable sulphur. Same as lycopode . - Vegetable tallow, ti ue, wax, etc. See the nouns. - Vegetable towel, the sponge gourd.-Vegetable turpeth. See turpeth , 1. II. n. 1. A plant. See plant1 .-2. In a more limited sense, a herbaceous plant used wholly or in part for culinary purposes, or for feeding cattle, sheep, or other animals, as cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, potatoes, spinach, peas, and beans. The whole plant may be so used, or its tops or leaves, or its roots, tubers, etc., or its fruit or seed. Sow thistle, dandelion, and lettuce are their favourite vegetables, especially the last. Cowper , Account of his Hares, May 28, 1784. Chattel vegetable. See chattel. - Leather vegetable, a shrubby West Indian plant, Euphorbia punicea: so named from its coriaceous leaves. The flower-cluster has long scarlet bracts.=Syn. Vegetable, Plant, Herb, Tree, Shrub, Bush, Undershrub, Vine. Vegetable and plant in scientific use alike denote any member whatever of the vegetable kingdom. In popular use a vegetable is a culinary herb, and a plant is comparatively small, either an herb, or a shrub or tree when quite young, particularly a cultivated herb. An herb is a plant without a woody stem, hence dying to the root, or throughout, each year. A tree is a plant having a woody aërial stem, typically single below and branching above, the whole with a height of not le than four or five times the human stature. A shrub is a woody plant, typically lower than a tree and branching near or below the ground. A bush is a shrub of medium undershrub is a very small shrub. A is an herb, shrub, or even tree, with a long and slender stem which is not self-supporting. See the several words. IMG:content-1732.jpg:[graphic] Encyc. Brit ., XXII. 299. Vega2 (vēga), n. [= F. véga , waqi , falling, i. e. the falling bird, with ref. to Altair , the flying eagle, situated not far from Vega.] A size, forming a clump of stems, or at least of a branching star of the first magnitude in the northern constellation Lyra; a Lyræ. Vegetabilia (veje-ta-bil'i-ä), n . pl . [NL., pl. of L. vegetabilis , vegetable: see vegetable .] Plants as a grand division of nature. Compare Primal i a . vegetability (vej"e-ta-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. végé tabilité = Sp. vegetabilidad = It. vegetabilità ; as vegetable + -ity .] Vegetable quality, character, or nature. Boëtius, ... not ascribing its [the coral's] concretion unto the air, but the lapidifical juyce of the sea, which, entering the parts of that plant, overcomes its vegetability, and converts it into a lapideous substance. vegetable (vej'e-ta-bl), a. and n. [OF. vege table, living, fit to live, vegetable, as a noun, a vegetable, F. végétable, vegetable, Sp. vege table =Pg. vegetavel = =It. vegetabile, apt to vegetate, Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 5. = IMG:content-1733.png:[blocks in formation]