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) native of Southern Asia and Borneo. It has a small head and short neck, and fine short glossy fur, mostly black, but brownish on the nose. It is easily tamed. Called also bruang, and Malayan bear. -- Sun beetle (Zoöl.), any small lustrous beetle of the genus Amara. -- Sun bittern (Zoöl.), a singular South American…

Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act. There remains unpaid A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which One part of Aquitaine is bound to us. Shak.

in the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.

an tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay. -- Swamp sparrow (Zoöl.), a common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. -- Swamp willow. (Bot.) Se…

Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson.

The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom. Gray.

eral composite plants of the genus Cineraria, especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which they bear.

A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.

ression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.

A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

An antelope (Damaliscus corrigum jimela) having a glossy purplish brown coat. It is related to the blesbok and is native of British East Africa. Also, any of various related varieties of other districts south of the Sahara.

The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

vided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1. -- Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.

numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in stri…

Same as Toxoglossa.