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Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.

is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]

es as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.

he ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic.

Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.

A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b). -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in We…

to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric. Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanza, the first and third having each four feet, and the s…

city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.

red stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

ilitary parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

Such as can be mined; as, minable earth. Sir T. North.

An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. -- a.

Such as can be misconstrued, as language or conduct. R. North.

A mistake in copying. North Am. Rev.

e. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning.

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

attles. Moccasin flower (Bot.), a species of lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule) found in North America. The lower petal is two inches long, and forms a rose-colored moccasin-shaped pouch. It grows in rich woods under coniferous trees.