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burrowing, African rodent (Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no spines; -- called also ground rat. -- Ground pigeon (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of pigeons which live largely upon the ground, as the tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris…

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.

nder the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.

One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham.

ot to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

To be engaged upon or occupied with. -- To have one's hands full, to have in hand al that one can do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with difficulties. -- To have, or get, the (higher) upper hand, to have, or get, the better of another person or thing.…

A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison.

d cursed be they that build Their hopes on haps. Sir P. Sidney. Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shak.

The Canadian porcupine.[U.S]

al hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain. -- Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg.

wo nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.

A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal. -- Hermit thrush (Zoöl.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California…

triking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [Written also hickup or hiccup.]

p. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks.