- lifelike dummy - lifelike effigy dummy - Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. - An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears
a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and
display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.
- Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp.
sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. - Anything which is bittersweet. - A kind of apple so called. - A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum
dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a
taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal
dulcamara. - An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose
yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which
covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.
- A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the
Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the
Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under
Frostfish. - The kingfish. See Kingfish (a). - The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).