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ame as Tasmanian devil, under Devil. -- Native hen (Zoöl.), an Australian rail (Tribonyx Mortierii). -- Native pheasant. (Zoöl.) See Leipoa. -- Native rabbit (Zoöl.), an Australian marsupial (Perameles lagotis) resembling a rabbit in size and form. -- Native sloth (Zoöl.), the koala. -- Native thrush (Zoöl.), an A…

A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.

Or or relating to post-mortem examinations.

Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

er and control; constitutional vigor. he led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm. Milton.

ing with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. The small shoots ... must be nipped off. Mortimer.

A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle. Mortimer.

To hold; to keep; to possess. [Obs.] His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton.

rence, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain.

Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the off…

To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. [Obs.] Mortimer. "O'ergrown with labor." Beau. & Fl. [Usually in the past participle.]

To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer.

bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

A carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed, on a march. Farrow.

ared off. Pope. Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills. Mortimer.

Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy mortal passage." Milton. When he is fit and season'd for his passage. Shak.

nt medicines. Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.

, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i.e., interest]. Bacon.

Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.

Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. Knight.