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The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement." Bp. Horne.

e fight; the system and practice of prize fighting. -- To make prize of, to capture. Hawthorne.

The pronghorn.

tion of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.

Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

o free from ceremonial or legal defilement. And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar. Lev. viii. 15. Purify both yourselves and your captives. Num. xxxi. 19.

ere strictly excluded. Macaulay. He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. Hawthorne.

To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore. If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox shall be stoned. Ex. xxi. 32.

The evergreen thorn (Cratægus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.

Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.

A quagmire. [R.] "Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells." Cowper.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick. Evelyn.

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

The plunger of a hydraulic press. Ram's horn. (a) (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.] Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.

ery irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

l. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak.

nakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the south (C. adamanteus), are…

A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.