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ng entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet. E. L. Corthell.

Dug out of the eart; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.

Same as Dugong.

descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.…

gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).

Apit where marl is dug.

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]

A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.

A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).

cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. -- Rock seal (Zoöl.), the harbor seal. See Seal. -- Rock shell (Z…

A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. [Written also Rhytina.]

The dugong.

A dugong.

An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.

The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. [Eng.]