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ety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony.…

An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

A little pig. [Written also grise.] [Scot.]

A little pig. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

See Grice, a pig. [Prov. Eng.]

press. (Bot.) See Lavender cotton. -- Ground dove (Zoöl.), one of several small American pigeons of the genus Columbigallina, esp. C. passerina of the Southern United States, Mexico, etc. They live chiefly on the ground. -- Ground fish (Zoöl.), any fish which constantly lives on the botton of the sea, as the sole, tu…

ar shape aud sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.

lied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

in tropical West Africa. They are also sold under the name of Piper Æthiopicum. --Guinea pig.

achinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

l sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.

A crystalline or amorphous pigment, free from iron, formed from hematin in old blood stains, and in old hemorrhages in the body. It resembles bilirubin. When present in the corpora lutea it is called hæmolutein.

is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.…

One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.

The pigfish or sailor's choice.

The pignut. See Hickory.

A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

egion on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.