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od. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

n which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

To say Amen to; to sanction fully.

Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume.

To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.

A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.] The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.

Bashfully. [R.]

Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]

To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obs.] Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. Bp. Hall.

man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (175…