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e-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

A game at cards similar to bluff. Chesterfield.

A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

A native or a Mexican horse of small size. [Western U.S.]

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

able for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.

e point, are sure to burrow in another. Burke. Burrowing owl (Zoöl.), a small owl of the western part of North America (Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.

lso Bizantine.] Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, A.D. 1453. -- Byzantine historians, historians and…

small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton.

cy to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also camas, cammas, and quamash.]

small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

A strolling gamester. [Ireland] Spenser.

ell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [Western U. S.]