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A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.

The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch. [Prov. Eng.]

A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.

An order of fishes including the sturgeons.

A division of calcareous sponges.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

See the Note under Tone.

Same as Atlantes.

A steelyard. [Prov. Eng.]

Not entirely honest. [R.] "We think him overproud and underhonest." Shak.

Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.

Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy. -- n. sing. & pl.

A tribe of bats including the common insectivorous bats of America and Europe, belonging to Vespertilio and allied genera. They lack a nose membrane.

The vertebræ of the back. [Prov. Eng.] Dunglison.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

ed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. Abyssal zone (Phys. Geog.), one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.…