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Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman.

Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell.

A rhymer; a rhymester. Johnston.

Rock pigeon (Zoöl.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under Pigeon. -- Rock pipit. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Pipit. -- Rock plover. (Zoöl.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover.

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.] Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George. W. Irving.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.

hich is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particulary to domestic animals.

esembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.

A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.

of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

s; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things. Arise, and say how thou camest here. Shak.

A reddish variety of limestone.

A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.

Given to making objections; captious. [Obs.] Equality of two domestic powers Breed scrupulous faction. Shak.

t of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preëmption laws.

princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ord…

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

uth American bird (Dicholophus, or Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.