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Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation…

Incapable of being parted; inseparable. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.

Not plundered. [Obs.] "Unpoll'd Arabian wealth." Fanshawe.

ong the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India. [Written also Wahaby.]

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.] Cowell.

A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.]

An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

groides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.

One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress.