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Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

table. Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. Dryden. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak.

A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having n…

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. Shak.

unted. Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. Shak.

pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. Shak.

Gilded leather. [Obs.] Spenser.

ge box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.

ica, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]…

Coolness; coldness; a chill. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow.