The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . irit that Shaksperes Puck wasderived. 2. As a general name, an elf; a or Kibaldi; such as weePugs and Hob-goblins call. Their dwellings beeIn corners of old houses least frequented,Or beneath stacks of wood : and these conuented,Make fcarefuU noise in Buttiies and in Dairies ;Robin good/eliouKS some, some call them Fairies. Ueytcood, Hierarchy of .gcls, p. 574. robing-room (robing-rOm), II. A room whererobes of ceremony are putouaiidoff; avestia
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . irit that Shaksperes Puck wasderived. 2. As a general name, an elf; a or Kibaldi; such as weePugs and Hob-goblins call. Their dwellings beeIn corners of old houses least frequented,Or beneath stacks of wood : and these conuented,Make fcarefuU noise in Buttiies and in Dairies ;Robin good/eliouKS some, some call them Fairies. Ueytcood, Hierarchy of .gcls, p. 574. robing-room (robing-rOm), II. A room whererobes of ceremony are putouaiidoff; avestiary:as, the peers robiiifi-room in the House of Loids. Bobinia (ro-bini-a), «. [NL. (Linnaaus, 1737),named after the royal gardeners at Paris, Jeanlioliin (1550 -1629) and his son Vespasien Uobiii;the latter introduced this genus into Europe,under the name Iseiidacacia, in K535.] A ge-nus of leguminous trees and shrubs of thetribe Galeycie, type of the subtribe Kobiniae :the locusts. It is characterized liy a legume withthin valves, winged on its upper margin, and by papilio-naceous Howers with a broad rellexed staudanl, an awl-. FlowerinE Branch of Locust {RciiMia PtfuJaracia).a, pod ; *, flower. shaped inflexed style terminating a stalked and ovary, and surrounding these a long sheath of tendiadelphous stamens, one of them partly, or at length free. The branchleta and leafstalks are nearly smooth,bristly, or viscid-liairy. The leaves are uiietiually piruiatewith stipulate leaflets, and are furnished with a pair ofbrislle-sliaped stipules, or of short stout spines in theirplace. The tlowere are white or rose-purple, bonte in con-spicuous racemes. There are .% or 6 species. 2 of themlittle-known Mexican trees, the others native in the st^nth-em and central Inited .States. Of the latter the chiefis It. IWudacacia, the comnum locust or false acacia,witlely planted and naturalize4l in the Northern States,also nuich ])lanted in Europe, where it presents several
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