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A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

mpanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preëminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.

The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. Milton.

To listen or hearken to. Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs. Shak.

A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.

See Leden. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.

One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.

racteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.

in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights. It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.

is, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis. E. van Beneden.

An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.

New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian. -- New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. -- New land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoö…

pplied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.

To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

Right of going foremost; precedence. Arbuthnot.