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A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.

A trible of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.

A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).

t, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.

One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.] Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chi…

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.

; sing. Choctaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

ewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.

Same as Anorthite. [R.]

-- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produ…

An abnormal coloring of plants.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

veloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a cidevant governor.