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ose presence is unpropitious. Jonah crab (Zoöl.), a large crab (Cancer borealis) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water.

ossession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation. [Western U. S. & Australia] See Claim, n., 3. -- To jump one's bail, to abscond while at liberty under bail bonds. [Slang, U. S.]

e, June bug (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large brown beetles of the genus Lachnosterna and related genera; -- so called because they begin to fly, in the northern United States, about the first of June. The larvæ of the June beetles live under ground, and feed upon the roots of grasses and other plants. Calle…

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a…

An Eastern inn or caravansary. [Written also kawn.]

A similar gown worn as a dressing gown by women of Western nations.

nge basal spot when erected. Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds.

A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties. [Written also klinket.]

A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

rth American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.

A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

A pack sack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle. [Western U. S.]

Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall.

throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak.

ives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

eans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage. They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land. Dryden.

vice in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.

rses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

A strap for tightening a saddle girth. [Western U. S. & Sp. Amer.]

ins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. Latin Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. -- Latin cross. See Illust. 1 of Cross. -- Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italia…