·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
·vt To handle awkwardly. II. Thumb ·vt To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
By rule of thumb: to do any thing by dint of practice. To kiss one's thumb instead of the book; a vu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun A very diminutive person. II. Hop-thumb ·noun ·see Hop-o'-my-thumb. ...
·noun A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset w...
Done to a cow's thumb; done exactly. ...
A dwarf, a little hop-o'my-thumb. ...
A fresh-water fish, the Cottus cataphractus. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
In shape resembling a thumb. They arrest the topsail-reef-earings from slipping, and are also lashed...
·- The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo)...
·- A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). ...
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc. ...
·- An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely res...
·- An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). ...
·- The kidney vetch. II. Lady's finger ·- One of the branchiae of the lobster. III. Lady's finger ...
·- Ribbon grass. ...
·- A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass. ...
·- A slender climbing plant; dodder. ...
·- A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), ·esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with ro...
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis). II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...
·- Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less ...
·- A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower. ...
·- The <<Harebell>>. ...
·- ·Alt. of Ladies' tresses. ...
Out of Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816). Not named in the maps. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
That rule suggested by a practical rather than a scientific knowledge. In common matters it means to...
·- ·see Venus's looking-glass, under <<Venus>>. ...
See Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street. ...
·noun ·Alt. of Hop-thumb. ...
A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shou...