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s. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.

n tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

ugh an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

fted. Camel bird (Zoöl.), the ostrich. -- Camel locust (Zoöl.), the mantis. -- Camel's thorn (Bot.), a low, leguminous shrub (Alhagi maurorum) of the Arabian desert, from which exudes a sweetish gum, which is one of the substances called manna.

stinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

ape of Good Hope, in the general sense of southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.

A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

e a fish. Capricorn beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

s. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guine…

th one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

nal; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.

cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

Having hollow horns.

A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.