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Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Bishop''s-wort :: Bishop's-wort (n.) Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush..

Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.

Bush :: Bush (n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines..

Pocan :: Pocan (n.) The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.

Staggeringly :: Staggerbush (n.) An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves..

Maikel :: Maikel (n.) A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy..

Chetvert :: Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels..

Woodman :: Woodman (n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.

Bushmen :: Bushmen (pl. ) of Bushma.

Lop :: Lop (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge..

Alestake :: Alestake (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a bush..

Pineweed :: Pineweed (n.) A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States..

Browsewood :: Browsewood (n.) Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

Zareba :: Zareba (n.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc..

Service :: Service () A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries..

Strike :: Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels.

Spicebush :: Spicebush (n.) Spicewood.

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A large indefinite quantity.

Ambuscade :: Ambuscade (v. t.) The body of troops lying in ambush.

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