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reat mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

A house of squared logs. [West. & South. U. S.]

A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygmæus); also applied to a larger species (Ægoceras leucophæus); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zoöl.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zoöl.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the U…

,a.Bluish. Southey.

A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

ron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

ty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South.

The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

s to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft…

The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

n a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.

Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. -- n.