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ated genera of the family Cervidæ. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

urus Davidianus) found in china. It about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of Antler. -- Cape elk (Zoöl.), the eland.

To rub. We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. Sir W. Scott.

The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

The antlers of a deer.

Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

The prong of an antler Holland.

ates and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl…

The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

stal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. [Obs.] Tyndale.

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

A ruminant having solid horns or antlers, as the deer. Brande & C.

An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.

A tyne or snag of an antler.

A stag that has cast its antlers.

hence, bald; -- said of a person. "The polled bachelor." Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.