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Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

uced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

nipe; -- called also robin snipe, and brown snipe. -- Sea quail (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Local, U. S.]

The old squaw. [Local, U. S.]

A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.

To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope. [Local, U.S.]

To throb; to quiver. [Local & Vulgar]

or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair. [Local, U.S.]

thority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. [Local, U.S.]

United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

eceives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing. Relay battery (Elec.), the local batter…

were in as great request as wealth among us now. Sir W. Temple. Court of Requests. (a) A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of…

A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart. Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen,…

The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] -- Water robin (Zoöl.), a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]

The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]