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The prairie dog.

See Wishtonwish.

A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.

A yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.

The agouara.

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the n…

burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

ers into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

Astonished; abashed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

tween the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

Detestation. Milton.

the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. Dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton.