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sures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

d plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha (A. canescens), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. Gray. -- Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, Leucæna glauca; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the f…

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. (h) (Fishing)

ast for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. Sterne.

The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

epending on the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month.

A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidæ), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.

education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

nimal whose fur was formerly much in req [Written also lusern and luzern.] The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase. Beau. & Fl.

itish Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

ng all others, . . . whom for brevity, but out of no resentment you, I lump all together. Sterne.

he seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern, using oars or sails or both, used esp. on the upper Great Lakes and their tributaries.

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a.