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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.

The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.

itively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

nt to the feelings. The thorns and briers of reproof. Cowper. Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; -- used for tobacco pipes. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier. -- Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglan…

The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey.

A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).

; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.

A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

To come in violent contact with something; to thump. "Bumping and jumping." Southey.

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

The state of privilege of a burgess. South.