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Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

Western; occidental. [R.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

plant (Silphium terebinthaceum) with large rough leaves and yellow flowers, found in the Western prairies. -- Prairie dog (Zoöl.), a small American rodent (Cynomys Ludovicianus) allied to the marmots. It inhabits the plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in the ground in large warrens, and have a sh…

Son, the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Shipley. -- Procession week, a name for Rogation week, when processions were made; Cross-week. Shipley.

name given to certain strata belonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by their mammalian remains.

imary colors red and blue. Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Milton.

The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. [Obs.] Camber did possess the western quart. Spenser.

A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation. [U.S.]

A tract of land used for grazing and rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. [Western U. S.]

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like. [Western & Southern U. S.] D. S. Jordan.

d; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. Shak. Rocky Mountain locust (Zoöl.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper. -- Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.

A round-up. See Round-up. [Western U.S.]

ure and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture.

l. Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]