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A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

ean Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiïdæ; -- so called from its hornlike form.

in or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuc…

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

ernum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

e of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.