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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.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

osition of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis Amazon ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

e to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.