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Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

The home or seat of a family; place of origin. We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. W. Tooke.

f the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]

e poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry. Bp. Hall. Byron.

A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

A term or period of three months.

Trimestrial. Southey.

Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.

To make wild or roving.

To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

a) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for…

f sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

scaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.