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d to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. That April morn Of this the very brother. Wordsworth.

England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.

To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. "A' brushes his hat o' mornings." Shak.

A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. Brussels carpet, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern. -- Brussels ground, a name given to the han…

rse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.

a is a strong, irritating cathartic. Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

he male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

essed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

o distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin.

ge numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed. [U.S.] -- Buffalo nut (Bot.), the oily and drupelik…

1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from its golden seal.