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To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

even men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidæ) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.

ny of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.

The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.

gh initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.

irect; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view. The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

A California scorpænoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera. R. Hunt.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.