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foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds. -- Pigeon hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A small American falcon…

el or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser.

idæ. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.

ly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.

The hind part or handle of a plow.

The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon. [R.]

A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse. With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. The poop was beaten gold. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.

A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.

That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.

Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.

The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.

Back; being behind; private. "The postern door." Dryden.

Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals. -- n.