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Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]

A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo. [Archaic]

A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

See Leontodon.

See Melocoton.

See Melocoton.

A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

of Mistake.

A short musket.

A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.

imp. of Partake.

A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.

Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter. Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for making a pontoon bridge.

The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.

A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).

An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

Same as Rattoon, n.

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.