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ocess of becoming permanent, and thus changing to a true species, usually by isolation in localities from which other varieties are excluded.

The gadwall. [Local, U.S.]

ach eye. -- Spectacled coot, or Spectacled duck (Zoöl.), the surf scoter, or surf duck. [Local, U.S.] -- Spectacled eider (Zoöl.) See Eider. -- Spectacled goose (Zoöl.), the gannet. -- Spectacled snake (Zoöl.), the cobra de capello.

A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell. [Local, U.S.]

A young herring. [Local, U.S.]

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]

The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]

Thrush. [Local, U.S.]

The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail. [Local, U.S.]

.] To sprunt up, to draw one's self up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up. [Local, U.S.]

Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a cricket. S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. Emerson.

Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. [Local, U.S.]

The American eider duck. [Local, U.S.]

spar. Halliwell. Woodward. Squat snipe (Zoöl.), the jacksnipe; -- called also squatter. [Local, U.S.]

atters, or actual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. [U. S.]

the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called also spotted weakfish, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon.

To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation. It stands as it were to the ground yglued. Chaucer. The ruined wall Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone. Byron.

he pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.