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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.

pt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South.

A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

ormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.