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A tussock moth (Ocneria dispar) native of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the…

but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. Gray.

ife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

Having hair. "A beast haired like a bear." Purchas.

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabæus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58…

e of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

spicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected. Bp. Burnet. Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage. Rowe.

The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.

The red-breasted merganser.

dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor. At least we 'll die witch harness on our back. Shak.

ican eagle (Thrasaëtus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil. Harpy bat (Zoöl.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.

The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the close of the harvest; the feast itself. Dryden.

rom which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.

The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

tly resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

ive soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.

The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.