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ne, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.

A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

ition; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak.

sion of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset. The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

d over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

rstanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

pterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

To make sad. [Obs.] To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.

Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.

achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

orses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

ered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides.

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.