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A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di

church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

s of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. The…

Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

on of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

The feast of All Saints.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

A valuable East Indian fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.

Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.

In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

England. Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. -- n. One of the E…