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A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself. Gray.

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

ettlement of accounts. -- Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] -- Pay office, a place where payment is made. -- Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due.

Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U. S.]

applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

A lava field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

ibute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

To go through with; to perform. [Obs.] Sylvester.

To take profit of; to make profitable. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character.

esent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.

Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.] Judd.

A lover of learning; a scholar. Chesterfield.

s whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake. The Western pine snake (P. Sayi) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange. -- Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from…

f Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

f Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

A gamester; a gambler.

The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester.

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.