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n. Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Eryngium fœtidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root; -- called also frostwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ So called from having been formerly used in assuaging the pain of the gout. ] (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Knotgrass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weed out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (Polygonum Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. (b) The sea trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably a corruption of twills. See Twill. ] A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Twiddle. ] [ Written also twidle. ] 1. To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To twist. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two things practically alike; -- a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire “On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]