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The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

Having the nasal bones contiguous.

That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The honey of his language. Shak.

nail. See Horsenail. -- Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.

To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone. The cloudy messenger turns me his back, And hums. Shak.

humor is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind. Roscommon. A prince of a pleasant humor. Bacon. I like not the humor of lying. Shak.

Pleasantly; humorously.

h-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.

marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.

y have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavas and basalt are igneous rocks.

Not delectable; unpleasant; disagreeable. [R.] Richardson.

as swan shot. See Canna. -- Indian summer, in the United States, a period of warm and pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under Summer. -- Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. -- Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous roo…

An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably. "Insatiably covetous." South.

room; -- usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii. 25.

Want of suavity; unpleasantness. [Obs.] Burton.

Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.

The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.