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A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.

lluminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.…

A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known.

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]

ch the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.

ied by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen. A braver soldier never couched lance. Shak.

quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail. And big waves lash the frighted shores. Dryden.

rogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It is much used as an anæsthetic agent. -- Laughing goose (Zoöl.), the European white-fronted goose. -- Laughing gull. (Zoöl.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull…

current consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale.

evel of the valley or of the sea. After draining of the level in Northamptonshire. Sir M. Hale. Shot from the deadly level of a gun. Shak.

The whale, or a great whale. Milton.

ropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

hey are sighted at an object. -- Line tub (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled. -- Mason and Dixon's line, the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. In an extended sense,…

A cavity or hollow.[Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

ignating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.

ok of the Roman Catholic Church. This manual of laws, styled the Confessor's Laws. Sir M. Hale.

Capable of cultivation. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.