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distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot.

The European starling. [Local, Eng.]

na (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).

One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidæ or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bas…

A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus).

A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.

ion, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

The European spotted flycatcher. Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are substituted for wires.

A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

se leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

bordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

nother. The rival statesmen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances. Bancroft.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

everal governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. Alison.

A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.

ble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.