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A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.

ern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.

A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usuall…

Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

ern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.

A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.

A region; country. [Obs.] "The plages of the north." Chaucer.

A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.

parts of the world. Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian. -- Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. -- Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white. -- Ribwort plantain. Se…

The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.

or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. Sir T. North.

nd Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star. See Illust. of Ursa Major. (b) pl. (Naut.)

). See Hemlock. -- Poison ivy (Bot.), a poisonous climbing plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) of North America. It is common on stone walls and on the trunks of trees, and has trifoliate, rhombic-ovate, variously notched leaves. Many people are poisoned by it, if they touch the leaves. See Poison sumac. Called also poison oak…

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the…

ce from a pole of the earth equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic, or about 23º 28', the northern called the arctic circle, and the southern the antarctic circle. -- Polar clock, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus, turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and indicating the hour of the day on an hour…

The polestar. See North star, under North.

A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.

flounder (Zoöl.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig flounder, and pole fluke. -- Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a…