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duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [Written also gaddwell.]

A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

ly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

rkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closel…

gly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.

idosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.

so needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

rter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. -- Garter snake (Zoöl.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color.

To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state. Scientific American.

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

strument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]

The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.

us Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. American germander, Teucrium Canadense. -- Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis. -- Water germander, Teucrium Scordium. -- Wood germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.

A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Mes…