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Indian cress.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• CRESSET
  A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight. (more info) torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. 1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• CRESSELLE
  A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.
• CRESS
  A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic. Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium
• CRESSY
  Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.
• PARA CRESS
  An annual asteraceous herb grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• WATER CRESS
  A perennial cruciferous herb growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.
• DOCK-CRESS
  Nipplewort.