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In Turkey, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They are appointed directly by the Sultan.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

A genus of South American monkeys, including the howlers. See Howler, 2, and Illust.

of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key.

Australian singing bird (Pachycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead. -- Native turkey (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); -- called also bebilya.

of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

A pet name for a donkey.

also carrot fly. -- Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath. -- Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.

ting in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. -- Nose key (Carp.), a fox wedge. -- Nose leaf (Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. -- Nose of wax, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced.…

A key of the piano or organ. The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. Milton. That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. W. Pater.

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.

A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey (Zoöl.), the wild turkey of Central America (Meleagris ocellata).

nough; abundant. [Obs.] If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. Shak.

A nocturnal South American monkey (Callithrix discolor), noted for its agility; -- called also ventriloquist monkey.

The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic…

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.

ensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ. The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. Pope.

A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.