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A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

A monster, in the shape, of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.

Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

he surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

d from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.

An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

The art of surveying a region or district.

culentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.

evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.