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into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity. -- Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.

A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana. [U.S.]

Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).

A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.

An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural. [Colloq.] P. H. Sheridan.

le (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place. -- Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces o…

A kind of sandal worn by Indians and the lower classes generally; --usually used in pl. [Southern U. S. & Mex.]

Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the l…

A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana. Shak.

A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York.

; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.

To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.

The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.

rful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree. [Also written ylang-ylang.]

A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

An Indian crested pheasant of the genus Lophophorus. Several species are known. Called also monaul, monal.

ding to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word. History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham.