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The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

A confraternity; a guild. [Obs.] Milton.

rses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, gi…

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic id…

red with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides.

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

n divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

tal. [Obs.] Surely, the present pleasure of a sinful act is a poor countervail for the bitterness of the review. South.

A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.

racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.