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Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South.

render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

Degree of latitude either north or south. [Obs.] Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south. Abp. Abbot.

. . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1. Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. South.

ies of Dynastes, an American genus of very large lamellicorn beetles, esp. D. hercules of South America, which grows to a length of six inches. -- Hercules' club. (Bot.) (a) An ornamental tree of the West Indies (Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis), of the same genus with the prickly ash.

tage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

ad me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

h price. If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper. South.

artridge (Zoöl.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichidæ. Many are beautifully colored.

inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. [R.] When the moon is in the hinge at East. Creech. Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad. Milton. Hinge joint. (a) (Anat.) See Ginglymus. (b) (Mech.) Any joint resembling a hinge, by which two pieces are connected so as to permit relative turning in o…

One versed or well informed in history. Great captains should be good historians. South.

to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South.

ps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of whi…

A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoölogists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

One who cheats or deceives. South.

salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]

ey land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne. South. Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist.