among the ancients, a kind of exercise, which consisted of wrestling and boxing. In these contests it was customary for the weaker party, when he found himself pressed by his adversary, to fall down, and fight rolling on the ground.

in botany, a genus of the hexandria monogyne class. It has six petals, and a nectarium divided into twelve segments, and the stamens lie upon the nectarium. There are seven species, none of them natives of Britain.