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Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.

Of or pertaining to the tanagers.

Tanagrine.

An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.

A police station. [India] Kipling.

The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.

Deathlike; resembling death. Dunglison.

A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. Bryant.

Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

Same as Sulphocyanate.

A salt of titanic acid.

A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

Tympanic.

To free from manacles. Tennyson.

A salt of uranic acid.

A salt of uroxanic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of a natural order (Valerianaccæ) of which the valerian is the type. The order includes also the corn salads and the oriental spikenard.