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A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.…

lish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth.

Excessive wetness. [Obs.] Another ill accident is, overwet at sowing time. Bacon.

ak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.

s of the Psalms of David. I. Disraeli. His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice. Sowth. The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic Paraphrases. Shipley.

A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.

A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.

A genus of curassows, including the guans.

eonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

h a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. Shak. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow Isa. xxviii. 24.

Tares. [Obs.] "To sow popple among wheat." Bale.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvi. 5.

tion. [Obs.] Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view. When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of…

To disown. [Obs.] "Refuse thy name." Shak.

To deny; to disown. [Obs.]

To deny; to disown. [Obs.] Shak. All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the trith and thee unholy leagued. Sylvester.

To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.

lm tree (Oreodoxa regia), lately discovered also in Florida. -- Royal pheasant. See Curassow. -- Royal purple, an intense violet color, verging toward blue. -- Royal tern (Zoöl.), a large, crested American tern (Sterna maxima). -- Royal tiger. (Zoöl.) See Tiger. -- Royal touch, the touching of a diseased person by…

ut break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.