资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wire \Wire\, n. [OE. wir, AS. wir; akin to Icel. v[=i]rr, Dan.
   vire, LG. wir, wire; cf. OHG. wiara fine gold; perhaps akin
   to E. withy. ????.]
   1. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance
      formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved
      rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.

   Note: Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square,
         triangular, etc., by giving this shape to the hole in
         the drawplate, or between the rollers.

   2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph;
      as, to send a message by wire. [Colloq.]

   {Wire bed}, {Wire mattress}, an elastic bed bottom or
      mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in
      various ways.

   {Wire bridge}, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made
      of wire.

   {Wire cartridge}, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed
      in a wire cage.

   {Wire cloth}, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, --
      used for strainers, and for various other purposes.

   {Wire edge}, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes
      formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening
      it.

   {Wire fence}, a fence consisting of posts with strained
      horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework,
      between.

   {Wire gauge} or {gage}.
      (a) A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness
          of sheet metal, etc., often consisting of a metal
          plate with a series of notches of various widths in
          its edge.
      (b) A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as
          by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the
          thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is
          used in describing the size or thickness. There are
          many different standards for wire gauges, as in
          different countries, or for different kinds of metal,
          the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge
          being often used and designated by the abbreviations
          B. W. G. and A. W. G. respectively.

   {Wire gauze}, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling
      gauze.

   {Wire grass} (Bot.), either of the two common grasses
      {Eleusine Indica}, valuable for hay and pasture, and {Poa
      compressa}, or blue grass. See {Blue grass}.

   {Wire grub} (Zo["o]l.), a wireworm.

   {Wire iron}, wire rods of iron.

   {Wire lathing}, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the
      place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.

   {Wire mattress}. See {Wire bed}, above.

   {Wire micrometer}, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine
      wires, across the field of the instrument.

   {Wire nail}, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed
      and pointed.

   {Wire netting}, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary
      wire gauze.

   {Wire rod}, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing.
      

   {Wire rope}, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of
      wires.

Yard \Yard\, n. [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries.
   garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden,
   G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar[eth]r
   yard, house, Sw. g[*a]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house,
   garda sheepfold, L. hortus garden, Gr. cho`rtos an inclosure.
   Cf. {Court}, {Garden}, {Garth}, {Horticulture}, {Orchard}.]
   1. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of,
      or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a
      barnyard.

            A yard . . . inclosed all about with sticks In which
            she had a cock, hight chanticleer.    --Chaucer.

   2. An inclosure within which any work or business is carried
      on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.

   {Liberty of the yard}, a liberty, granted to persons
      imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any
      other limits prescribed by law, on their giving bond not
      to go beyond those limits.

   {Prison yard}, an inclosure about a prison, or attached to
      it.

   {Yard grass} (Bot.), a low-growing grass ({Eleusine Indica})
      having digitate spikes. It is common in dooryards, and
      like places, especially in the Southern United States.
      Called also {crab grass}.

   {Yard of land}. See {Yardland}.

Bunch grass, grazing. Far West. {Eriocoma}, {Festuca}, {Stips},
etc. Chess, or Cheat, a weed. {Bromus secalinus}, etc. Couch
grass. Same as {Quick grass} (below). Crab grass,
      (a) Hay, in South. A weed, in North. {Panicum sanguinale}.
      (b) Pasture and hay. South. {Eleusine Indica}. Darnel
      (a) Bearded, a noxious weed. {Lolium temulentum}.
      (b) Common. Same as {Rye grass} (below). Drop seed, fair
          for forage and hay. {Muhlenbergia}, several species.
          English grass. Same as Redtop (below). Fowl meadow
          grass.
      (a) Pasture and hay. {Poa serotina}.
      (b) Hay, on moist land. {Gryceria nervata}. Gama grass,
          cut fodder. South. {Tripsacum dactyloides}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Eleusine indica
     n : coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers;
         native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
         [syn: {yardgrass}, {yard grass}, {wire grass}, {goose
         grass}]