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Away from the ambulacral region.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.

Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet. Where the cow is, there is Arcadia. J. Burroughs.

he northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

-- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. -- n.

l birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

Confined to no zone or region; not local.

Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian Fre…

tils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculi…

One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.

ion of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.

In hell, or the regions of the dead. What businesss brought him to the realms below. Dryden.