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The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis (Zoöl.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. -- Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition…

Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica. -- Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material; -- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance. -- Quaker ladies (…

A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. Shak. Rocky Mountain locust (Zoöl.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper. -- Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.

A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.

A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.

the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.

g or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. Milton.