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The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. [Polit. Cant, U. S.]

Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.

A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schænocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.

The curlew.

A kind of muslin.

Destitute of sails. Pollok.

A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. [U.S.]

See Sapodila.

tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum. [Written also sapadillo, sappadilo, sappodilla, and zapotilla.] Sapodilla plum (Bot.), the fruit of Achras Sapota. It is about the size of an ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of…

See Sapodilla.

Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.

See Parillin.

The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]

The merganser. [Prov. Eng.]

A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.

The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and in sometimes of secondary origin. Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster.…

The act or process of producing schiller in a mineral mass.

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.