ice-plant

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• Ice plant

  ·- A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten ...

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• Plant

  ·noun The sole of the foot. II. Plant ·noun A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. III. Plant ·n...

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• plant

  The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods ar...

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• plant

  v. tr. and n. common in Australiafor to hide, and for the thing hidden away. As remarkedin the quot...

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• plant

  A stock of tools, &c. Also, the fixtures, machinery, &c., required to carry on a business. ...

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• Ice

  ·noun Concreted sugar. II. Ice ·noun Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. ...

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• Ice

  Frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See Crystal.) ...

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• Air plant

  ·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>. ...

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• Dove plant

  ·- A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with nu...

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• Flax-plant

  ·noun A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two in...

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• Host plant

  ·add. ·- A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are u...

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• Plant-cane

  ·noun A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second ...

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• Plant-eating

  ·adj Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. ...

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• Telegraph plant

  ·add. ·- An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like...

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• Water plant

  ·- A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. ...

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• Wind-plant

  ·noun A <<Windflower>>. ...

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• butterfly-plant

  n. a small flowering plant, Utricularia dichotoma, Lab., N.O. Leutibularina. ...

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• caustic-plant

  or Caustic-Vine ,n. Sarcostemma australis, R. Br., N.O.Asclepiadea. Cattle and sheep are poisoned ...

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• coffee plant

  or Coffee Berry n. namegiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (q.v.). ...

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• guitar plant

  a Tasmanian shrub, Lomatiatinctoria, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae. ...

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• honey-plant

  n. name given in Tasmania to Richea scoparia Hook., N.O. Epacris. ...

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• ink-plant

  n. another name for the «toot,» a New Zealand shrub, Coriaria thymifolia, N.O.Coriarieae. Called In...

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• jelly-plant

  a sea-weed, Eucheuma speciosum,J. Agardh, N.O. Algae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p...

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• milk-plant

  n. i.q. Caustic Creeper (q.v.). ...

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• officer plant

  n. another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...

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• pea-plant

  n. The term is applied sometimes toany one of various Australian plants of the N.O. Leguminosae. ...

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• plant-caterpillar

  n. name given in Australasiato species of caterpillars which are attacked by spores ofcertain fungi...

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• trigger-plant

  n. i.q. Hairtrigger (q.v.) plant; called also Jack-in-a-box. ...

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• Bay ice

  ·- ·see under <<Ice>>. ...

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• Ice-built

  ·adj Loaded with ice. II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice. ...

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• Neapolitan ice

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Neapolitan ice cream. ...

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• Water ice

  ·- Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection. ...

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• ice-candles

  icicles. Kent. ...

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• ice-bone

  a rump of beef. Norf. ...

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• anchor-ice

  The ice which is formed on and incrustates the beds of lakes and rivers: the ground-gru of the easte...

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• bay-ice

  Ice newly formed on the surface of the sea, and having the colour of the water; it is then in the fi...

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• cake-ice

  Ice formed in the early part of the season. ...

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• drift-ice

  The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...

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• field-ice

  A sheet of smooth frozen water of a general thickness, and of an extent too large for its boundaries...

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• ground-ice

  See anchor-ice. ...

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• ice-anchor

  A bar of round iron tapered to a point, and bent as a pot-hook; a hole is cut in the ice, the point ...

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• ice-beams

  Strengtheners for whalers. (See fortifying.) ...

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• ice-birds

  Small sea-fowl in the polar regions. ...

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• ice-blink

  A streak or stratum of lucid whiteness which appears over the ice in that part of the atmosphere adj...

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• ice-boat

  A peculiar track-schuyt for the Dutch canals in winter. ...

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• ice-bound

  A vessel so surrounded by ice as to be prevented from proceeding on her voyage. ...

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• ice-chisel

  A large socket-chisel into which a pole is inserted, used to cut holes in the ice. ...

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• ice-claws

  A flat claw with two prongs spread like a can-hook; the same as a single span or claw-dog. ...

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• ice-fenders

  Fenders of any kind, used to protect a vessel from injury by ice; usually broken spars hanging verti...

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• ice vein

  A narrow temporary channel of water in the packs or other large collections of ice. ...

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• ice lane or vein

  A narrow temporary channel of water in the packs or other large collections of ice. ...

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• ice-master

  A pilot, or man of experience, for the Arctic Sea. ...

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• ice-plank

  See spike-plank. ...

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• ice-quake

  The rending crash which accompanies the breaking of floes of ice. ...

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• ice-saw

  A huge saw for cutting through ice; it is made of 2/8 to 3/8 inch plates of iron, and varies in leng...

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• ice-sludge

  Small comminuted ice, or bay-ice broken up by the wind. ...

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• ice-tongue

  See tongue. ...

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• land-ice

  Flat ice connected with the shore, within which there is no channel. ...

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• light ice

  That which has but little depth in the water; it is not considered dangerous to shipping, as not bei...

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• loose ice

  A number of pieces near each other, but through which the ship can make her way. ...

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• main-ice

  A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...

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• old ice

  In polar parlance, that of previous seasons. ...

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• open ice

  Fragments of ice sufficiently separate to admit of a ship forcing or boring through them under sail....

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• pack-ice

  A large collection of broken floe huddled together, but constantly varying its position; said to be ...

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• penknife ice

  A name given by Parry to ice, the surface of which is composed of numberless irregular vertical crys...

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• piling ice

  In Arctic parlance, where from pressure the ice is raised, slab over slab, into a high mass, which c...

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• sailing ice

  A number of loose pieces floating at a sufficient distance from each other, for a ship to be able to...

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• sea-ice

  Ice within which there is a separation from the land. ...

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• slush-ice

  The first layer which forms when the surface is freezing. ...

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• stream-ice

  A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of c...

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• young ice

  Nearly the same as bay-ice, except that it is only applied to ice very recently formed, or of the pr...

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• bird-catching plant

  n. a New Zealand shrub ortree, Pisonia brunoniana, Endl., N.O. Nyctagineae; Maori name, Parapara. ...

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• Neapolitan ice cream

  ·add. ·- An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream. II. Neapolitan ice cream ·add. ·- An...

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• barrier of ice

  Ice stretching from the land-ice to the sea or main ice, or across a channel, so as to render it imp...

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• beset in ice

  Surrounded with ice, and no opening for advance or retreat, so as to be obliged to remain immovable....

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• heavy drift-ice

  Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...

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• hummocks of ice

  Protuberant lumps of ice thrown up by some pressure upon a field or floe, or any other frozen plane....

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• island of ice

  A name given to a great quantity of ice collected into one solid mass and floating upon the sea; the...

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• vein of ice

  A narrow channel between two fields. Any open cracks or separations of floe offering navigation. ...

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• lane or vein of ice

  A narrow channel between two fields. Any open cracks or separations of floe offering navigation. ...

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• blink of the ice

  A bright appearance or looming (the iceberg reflected in the atmosphere above it), often assuming an...

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• run of the ice

  In Arctic parlance, implies that the ice is suddenly impelled by a rushing motion, arising from curr...

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