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Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

ded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who naglected to brand his cattle.

and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass.

A walking-stick insect. [Texas]

ained. Mustard grape (Bot.), a species of grape (Vitis candicans), native in Arkansas and Texas. The berries are small, light-colored, with an acid skin and a sweet pulp.

among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).

A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.

rofessedly; apparently. Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.

A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.

An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.

y (Carya olivæformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well- flavored meat. [Written also pacane.]

Same as Pilon. [Texas]

Same as Pilon. [Texas]

A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.

low oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.

To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

See Croaker, n., 2. (a). [Texas]

a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree (Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. -- Screw bolt, a bolt having a screw thread on its sh…

th the tips of the wings black and legs and bill red. Called also white brant, wavey, and Texas goose. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose (C. coerulescens) is varied with grayish brown and bluish gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper part of the neck white. Called also white head, white-headed goose…