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Folded in tortuous windings. A highly convoluted brain. North Amer. Rev.

A delicacy; a dainty. [Obs.] R. North.

A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]

The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

rpane. See 1st Counterpane. Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North.

dly. The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. R. North.

A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory. R. North.

Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea. [R.] Milton.

dness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

Top; summit; acme. R. North.

a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

s great town. Addison. There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. Bacon.

A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.

Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. -- n.

The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.