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xpedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

The southwest wind. Milton.

To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

On the knee. [R.] Southey.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

light, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

eir territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians o…

Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.

eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

o pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.