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to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]

em, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

dust, etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc. -- Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. -- Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves…

California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.

A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

A California trout. See Malma.

The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

fteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

Zoöl.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. -- Gray whale (Zoöl.), a rather large and swift California whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.

The California gray whale.

atus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several species of Atriplex and Obione.

tc., which, rolling on the ground, drives the mechanism. -- Ground wren (Zoöl.), a small California bird (Chamæa fasciata) allied to the wrens and titmice. It inhibits the arid plains. Called also gronnd tit, and wren lit. -- To bite the ground, To break ground. See under Bite, Break. -- To come to the ground, To fa…

In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. [Written also groper, gruper, and trooper.]

The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.

The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner.

A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.

A California salmon; the steelhead.