(n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.

(n.) A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

(n.) A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.

(n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

(n.) The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain.

(n.) A child's word for father.

(n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.

(n.) The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

(pl. ) of Notum

(n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

(n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

(n.) The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.

(n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.

(n.) 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.

(n.) The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.

(n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.

(n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

(n.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.

(n.) An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.

(a.) See Solus.

(n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.

(fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

(n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

(n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.

(n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

(n.) Same as Rajah.

(n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.

(n.) Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.

(n.) Alt. of Almah

(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.

(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.

(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.

(n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

(n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune.

(n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

(n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.

(n.) Alt. of Arnee

(n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

(n.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

(n.) A kind of plum cake.

(n.) See Bigha.

(n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.

(n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.

(n.) A two-horse chariot.

(n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

(n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.

(n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.

(n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

(n.) A cyma.

(n.) See Ulexite.

(n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.

(n.) A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

(n.) The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).

(n.) Same as Banxring.

(n.) A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

(n.) The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

(n.) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

(n.) A capping molding. Same as Cymatium.

(n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

(n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

(n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.

(n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.

(n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

(n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.

(n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

(n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.

(n.) See Canker, n., 1.

(n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.

(n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

(n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

(n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

(n.) Short form for Dura mater.

(n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

(n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.

(n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

(n.) See Coca.

(n.) A genus of trees including the olive.

(n.) The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

(n.) A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.

(pl. ) of Vas

(n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.

(n.) A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.

(pl. ) of Velum

(n.) A vein.

(n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

(n.) The tucan.

(n.) A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.

(n.) One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.

(n.) Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.

(a.) A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.

(n.) Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below.

(n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder.

(n.) The posterior pigmented layer of the iris; -- sometimes applied to the whole iris together with the choroid coat.

(n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.

(n.) One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

(n.) Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.

(n.) A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird.

(n.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.

(n.) A cyme. See Cyme.

(n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.

() The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.

() The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.

(n.) A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.

(n.) Pomp, show, or festivity.

(n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.

(n.) A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.

(pl. ) of Forum

(n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

(n.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.

(n.) A genus of sea birds including the booby and the common gannet.

(n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.

(n.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.

(n.) The mane of an animal.

(n.) A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.

(n.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

(n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).

(n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

(n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.

(n.) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.

(n.) The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.

() A prefix or combining form, used to denote six, sixth, etc.; as, hexatomic, hexabasic.

(n.) A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.

(n.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world.

(n.) A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura.

(n.) A zone or band; a layer.

(n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

(n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.

(n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.

(n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

(n.) The genus that includes the magpies.

(n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

(n.) A service-book. See Pie.

(n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

(n.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.

(n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

(n.) A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.

(n.) An ancient trumpet.

(n.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.

() A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.

() A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.

(n.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.

(n.) The tunny.

(n.) The bonito, 2.

(n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.

(n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.

(n.) The principal or ruling evil spirit.

(n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.

(n.) The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus).

(n.) The moon.

(n.) Silver.

(/.) A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.

(pl. ) of Malum

(n.) See Mamma.

(n.) The capital city of Peru, in South America.

(n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.

(n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.

(pl. ) of Locus

(v. t.) To flay.

(n.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) A procuress.

(n.) See Vis/.

(v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.

(interj.) Stop; stand; hold. See Ho, 2.

(n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.

(n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

(n.) An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.

(n.) A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce.

(n.) The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.

(n.) An ell; also, a yard.

(n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

(n.) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.

(n.) That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology.

(n.) An urgent prayer or entreaty.

(n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

(n.) See Myna.

(pl. ) of Jugum

(n.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.

(n.) A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa.

(n.) Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.

(n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.

(n.) A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus (/ Ceti).

(n.) A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.

(n.) A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.

(n.) The plant which yields the fiber.

(n.) A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).

(n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.

(n.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.

(n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

(n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

(n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.