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majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Young. Sable antelope (Zoöl.), a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath. -- Sable iron, a superior quality of Russia iron; --…

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, or cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

n scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusæ. See Illustration in Appendix.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.

Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle. Hare. Seminal leaf (…

Circaëtus Gallicus. -- Serpent eater. (Zoöl.) (a) The secretary bird. (b) An Asiatic antelope; the markhoor. -- Serpent fish (Zoöl.), a fish (Cepola rubescens) with a long, thin, compressed body, and a band of red running lengthwise. -- Serpent star (Zoöl.), an ophiuran; a brittle star. -- Serpent's tongue (Paleon.…

To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. Mortimer.

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. Along the side of yon small hill. Milton.

The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent. [U. S.]

onging to the order Bombaceæ. The trees grow to an immense size, and have their seeds enveloped in a cottony substance, which is used for stuffing cushions, but can not be spun. -- Silk flower. (Bot.) (a) The silk tree. (b) A similar tree (Calliandra trinervia) of Peru. -- Silk fowl (Zoöl.), a breed of domestic fowls…

rliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.

ale had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.