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a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]

head declined. Thomson. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser.

hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States. -- Desert mouse (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.

untries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orientation was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. Used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972.

t for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. [Western U.S.] Bartlett.

ial title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054. The Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen…

An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.

evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so. South. Where western gales eternally reside. Addison.

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson. Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10.

A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.

sians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.

f uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.

lop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. But gallop lively down the western hill. Donne.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.