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The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.] Fair maid. (Zoöl.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; - - usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. S…

sula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.

A female malefactor. Hawthorne.

malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.

Having a margin. Hawthorne.

A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.

The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food.

Equality of conditions in contest or competition. It were no match, your nail against his horn. Shak.

An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe.

A kind of game at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.

The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.

The hawthorn.

The hawthorn.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

ay. Japan medlar (Bot.), the loquat. See Loquat. -- Neapolitan medlar (Bot.), a kind of thorn tree (Cratægus Azarolus); also, its fruit.

; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. "The mellow horn." Wordsworth. "The mellow-tasted Burgundy." Thomson. The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light. Percival.

t; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.