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Opposed to slavery. -- n.

The fur of the beaver.

Oregon; -- a nickname.

Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

One who bereaves.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

ality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

A dead human body; a corpse.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomain…

A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

d in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.…

ze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

ng. [Scot. & North of Eng.] Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray.