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See Galoche. Spenser.

Same as Galoche, Galoshe.

Same as Galoche.

ey of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament th…

A galoche.

See Galoche.

A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley.

A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved.

skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M'Culloch.

Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.

See Loch, a medicine.

See 2d Loch.

A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.

One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.

The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch. Lev. xviii. 21.

e value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded. M'Culloch.

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.

over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [R.] M'Culloch.

r otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice. Milton. My life, if thou preserv's my life, Thy sacrifice shall be. Addison.