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A small community or clan.

ecies of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

C5H11.CO2H, are fatty acids occurring in small quantities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat.

An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.

ite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond,…

That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification.

a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]

er for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.

A gunner's bag for ammunition.

The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas. Chaucer.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. Sir W. Scott.

Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

mestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.

ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

st both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.