An alpine shrub from Austria; dwarf, evergreen, and having a tendency to creep.

Producing or having a tendency to produce myths.

Like the repast, the conversation was mild, and free from every thing having a tendency to do harm.

He was about twenty-one years of age, with sensitive features, and brown hair having a tendency to waviness.

That anything having a tendency prematurely to awaken the sexual instinct should be rigorously avoided, goes without saying.

Various treaties were formed with countries of minor power, all having a tendency to preserve peace and promote commerce.

Prohibitions, again, they consider, if made without an allowance of exceptions, as having a tendency to break the spirit of youth.

Any possible effect of insurance may have been dampened by older patients already having a tendency to have poorer outcomes after surgery.

The modern family is without discipline, all of the elements in the home having a tendency to wander from the hearth center.

His difficulty was to disconnect the past from the present, the two having a tendency to mix themselves up in his mind.

It is well not to have more than two layers, on account of the weight having a tendency to crush the lower layer.

Exercises beneficial to one constitution are prejudicial to another, and would, perhaps, develop a part of the body already having a tendency to exaggeration.

This eminence, which I distinguished as Mount Stavely, consisted apparently of decomposed clay-stone or felspar, having a tendency to divide naturally into regular prisms.

In 1898 steel studs were introduced instead of cast iron ones, the latter having a tendency to work loose, but the practice is not universal.

I combat it as having a tendency to dehumanize the negro, to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man.