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The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch. [Scot. & Local, Eng.]

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.] To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.

One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. [Obs.] Milton.

ng to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

ite flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

The smelt. [Local, U. S.]

To puff. [Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.] Halliwel.

Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] Halliwell. Bartlett. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] "All this done upon the gad!" Shak.

by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion. [Slang] Gag rein (Harness), a rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth. -- Gag runner (Harness), a loop on the throat latch guiding the gag rein.

rs at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore.