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Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried. [Local, New York]

A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. McElrath.

ler and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

merican flounder (Limanda ferruginea); -- called also rusty dab. The name is also applied locally to other allied species. -- Sand darter (Zoöl.), a small etheostomoid fish of the Ohio valley (Ammocrypta pellucida). -- Sand dollar (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small flat circular sea urchins, which live on s…

ed as a white amorphus powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anæstesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quilaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.

The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]

The alewife. [Local, U.S.]

The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]

So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Shak.…

The old squaw. [Local U.S.]

The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). [Local, U.S.]

To cringe. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

To cringe. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed. [Written also escrod.] [Local, U.S.]

ula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

A swing. [Local, U.S.]

Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]

th black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.

Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story.

A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. [U. S.]