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The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

eir witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

ell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water i…

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the…

o the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

h in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.

food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.