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A female inspector.

it of the earth. -- Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.

A female interlocutor.

A female messenger. [R.]

A female intriguer.

A female introducer.

Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.

A female intruder.

To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. "Ironed like a malefactor." Sir W. Scott.

Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.

The male of certain animals, as of the ass.

The male ass; a donkey.

A female prater or babbler.

A female janitor.

a, but very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also ricebird, and paddy bird. In the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also kept as a cage bird.

A familiar name of the European wren. Jenny ass (Zoöl.), a female ass.

A male gyrfalcon.

A female juggler. T. Warton.

the aswail or sloth bear. -- Jungle cat (Zoöl.), the chaus. -- Jungle cock (Zoöl.), the male of a jungle fowl. -- Jungle fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon,…

insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidæ, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.