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The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

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

An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.

some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often…

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.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

ape creditors. This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. Compton Reade.

A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.

A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

s the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.

et long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.

A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.

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.

Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

itants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine.

from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.