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ior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm.

ster women, a women who deals in oysters. -- Pearl oyster. (Zoöl.) See under Pearl. -- Thorny oyster (Zoöl.), any spiny marine shell of the genus Spondylus.

large South African antelope (Æpyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.

Worthy of the palm; palmy; preëminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.

hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.

One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids.

A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.

acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

an antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

ing quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.

The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

ns, or to their language. Persian berry, the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond. -- Persian cat. (Zoöl.) Same as Angora cat, under Angora. -- Persian columns (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represents a Persian slave; -- called also Persi…

Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.

A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.