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The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.

A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The f…

The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.

An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient. Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. Addison.

r remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted…

A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.…

Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.

A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.

A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

ich it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as carbinol, glycerol, etc.

istinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group.

A large South African antelope (Æpyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.

e mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn. Tatler.

A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised. [Sometimes incorrectly written schirrus; written also skirrhus.]

Same as Ceroon.

ith skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak.

Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.