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in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, a…

A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

Like, or pertaining to, Lithodomus; lithophagous.

eir ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.

re littered so with us. Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. Shak.

lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.

. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

onveyance and delivery of mail matter. There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague. Tatler.

the horse (Psoroptes, or Dermatodectes, equi), and that of cattle (Symbiotes, or Dermatophagys, bovis) are the most important species. See Acarina.

absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.

A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidæ.

.), a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.

The sunfish (Orthagoriscus, or Mola). [Written also molebat.]

Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.

Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation. We had the mortification to lose sight of Munich, Augsburg, and Ratisbon. Addison.

To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress. The news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations. Evelyn. How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought! Addison.…

dicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.

ld name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.