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s, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and th…

A nile boat

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

ore large species of African catfish of the genus Malapterurus (esp. M. electricus of the Nile). They have a large electrical organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity…

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseoviridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantit…

A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer

Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.

Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.

Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Like an old woman; anile. -- Old`-wom"an*ish*ness, n.

to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

[Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. Woodward.

d by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]

An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.

or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. Dryden.

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.