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The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.

A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

m fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

Seamanship. [Obs.] Udalt.

a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast.…

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.

the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play.

se or passage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.

have to do; -- [Obs.] Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.

A Turkish honorary order established in 1851 by Abdul-Mejid, having as its badge a medallion surrounded by seven silver rays and crescents. It is often conferred on foreigners.

Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the coelum.

A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elæolite, and sodalite.

w anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising…

To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Dædalus in Crete.

A she puppy; a pet dog. [Obs.] Udall.

h great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.

To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.