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A serenader by moonlight. [Local, U. S.]

or whisky jack. See Whisky jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.

A clump of trees in a prairie. [Local, U.S.]

Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.

ed States. -- National flag. See under Flag. -- National guard, a body of militia, or a local military organization, as in Paris during the French Revolution, or as certain bodies of militia in other European countries and in the United States. -- National salute, a salute consisting of as many guns as there are Sta…

e at the market price. Such options are privileges for which a consideration is paid. -- Local option. See under Local.

ion; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance. Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance. Shak. By custom and the ordinance of times. Shak. Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.…

The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]

The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The upland plover. [Local, U. S.]

h brilliant metallic tints. -- Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See Sapucaia nut. [Local, U. S.] -- Paradise whidah bird. (Zoöl.) See Whidah.

ecies are found in China and the East Indies. -- Night partridge (Zoöl.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Painted partridge (Zoöl.), a francolin of South Africa (Francolinus pictus). -- Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish…

The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter. [An obs. local term in Eng.] Chapman.

The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zoöl.), a bird (Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.

To comb; also, to beat; to worry. [Obs. or Local] See Feaze, v.

A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]