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rd. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest. -- Cock of the walk, a chief or master; the hero of the hour; one who has overcrowed, or got the better of, rivals or competitors. -- Cock of the woods. See Capercailzie.…

ble fish (Gadus morrhua), Taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

ssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose roostock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

me time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

iaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.

A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

sing a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army.

America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.

Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.

ulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.

The 12th day of October, on which day in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, landing on one of the Bahama Islands (probably the one now commonly called Watling Island), and naming it "San Salvador"; -- called also Discovery Day. This day is made a legal holiday in many States of The United States.…