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A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe…

The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusk…

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.

A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Lauru…

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.

Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to de…

Tough; thick; capable of extension.

The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- freque…

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.

To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.