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A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

tions, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc.

An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.

To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.

for easy transportation. -- camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transporta…

Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.

One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.

A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. -- Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimsome crimson flowers.…

period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.

Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.