V. come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis [Lat.]; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats.

Very good, if made with half wheatmeal, or a proportion of oatmeal or rolled oats.

The extra consists of 5 tons of hay, 5 or 6 tons of oil-cake, 4 or 5 tons of bran, and some crushed oats.

"The customary oats were administered to the new Judge."Perthshire Constitutional.

Any one of these crops, fed whilst greenthe oats and millet as they begin to shoot, the peas to blossom, and the corn when tasselingwith a feed of dry oats, corn, or corn-chop at noon, will keep a plow-team in fine order all the season.

When we meet the woman we wish we'd sowed fewer wild oats.

They came suddenly, Sir, crashing through a dense thicket of giant oats, near River, upon a column of infantry ...

He's not going to have any babyin'!" I drew my hands from the frantic grasp, took away that last hold on human sympathy, and hurried oat, while his cry of "Oh, mutter! mutter!" rung in my ears as I turned and looked on his pure high brow for the last time.

After an hour's climbing up the heathy brae, through a scattered plantation of young trees, clambering over stone dykes, and jumping over moorland rills and springs, oozing from the black turf and streaking its sombre surface with stripes of green, we found ourselves on the table-land of the moora broad, bare level, garnished with a few black huts, and patches of scanty oats, won by patient industry from the waste.

Hermann hasted straightway to the stable, where quietly standing Found he the spirited stallions, the clean oats quickly devouring, And the well-dried hay that was cut from the richest of meadows.

The tall oats rippled before the wind and soft shadows trailed across the hillside.

[Footnote 2: Literally, crazy oats.