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To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.

A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.

A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.

Begotten by one's self, or one's own powers.

Squinting. [Obs. & R.]

An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.

A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical. [R.] Coleridge.

The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Te*leg"o*nous (#), a.

t is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.

Not begot; not yet generated; also, having never been generated; self-existent; eternal.

Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism. [Colloq. or Cant]

Surrounded with happiness or prosperity. [Obs.] Fair and rich and young and wel-begone. Chaucer.

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above." Dryden.

re are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very so…

n Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.