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Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.

; sing. Choctaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

sease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

State of being a church. South.

A kind of haircloth undergarment. Southey.

A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.

A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

r importunate talk; prattle; prating. Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack. South. Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), removable cover o…

oisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

m obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will. South.

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and…

t is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. Grand or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my sec…