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n. any automobile manufactured by the German firm BMW AG (from the German Bayerische MotorWerke); -- sometimes referred to colloquially as a beemer. [ abbrev. ] [ PJC ]

n. See Barwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Syn. -- cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn. -- false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.
Syn. -- American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. Oliver Cromwell, b. 1599, d. 1658.
Syn. -- Oliver Cromwell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. adj. of or pertaining to Oliver Cromwell. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination; a fantasy land.
Syn. -- never-never land, dreamland. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } prep. [ AS. framweard about to depart. Cf. Froward ] A way from; -- the contrary of toward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Towards or fromwards the zenith. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Called also gromel, grommel, graymill, and gray millet, all prob. fr. F. gr?mil, cf. W. cromandi. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [ Written also gromill. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various Western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock.
Syn. -- gum plant, tarweed, rosinweed, rosin-weed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum.
Syn. -- gum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Pomewater. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. ] One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They are red, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Work done by a number of associates, usually each doing a clearly defined portion, but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole; as, the teamwork of a football eleven or a gun crew. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Is the teamwork system employed, or does one workman make the whole cigar? U. S. Consular Repts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of amaranth (Amarantus caudatus). Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Same as Tramroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A street railway laid in the streets of a town or city, or an interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for trains drawn by steam or electric locomotives. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Formed from whim by reduplication. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They'll pull ye all to pieces for your whimwhams. Bear. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A whim, or whimsey; a freak. [ 1913 Webster ]