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hern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

n in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indi…

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

Producing reeds or canes.

One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.

proaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

nch plane, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes. -- Bench show, an exhibition of dogs. -- Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.

Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, aërocurves, or the like; of or pertaining to a biplane; as, a biplane rudder.

iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese. -- Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. -- Bog spavin. See under Spavin.

Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.

That which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.