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The alewife. [Local, Canada]

ority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.

An everglade. [Local, U. S.]

A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, etc. [Local, U. S.]

onnecting rod at an intermediate point. -- Grasshopper lobster (Zoöl.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.] -- Grasshopper warbler (Zoöl.), cricket bird.

(Zoöl.), an edible, shore crab (Carcinus menas) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named joe-rocker. -- Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. -- Green diallage. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite.…

The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto. [Local, U. S.]

The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle. [Local, U. S.]

In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.] Raymond.

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.

The large-mouthed black bass. [Local]

Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. [Local, U. S.]

A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.] Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. -- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé.…

An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter. [Obs. or Local] Holland.

To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule. [Local & Collog U.S.]

The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.

as distinguished from paper money. -- Hard oyster (Zoöl.), the northern native oyster. [Local, U. S.] - - Hard pan, the hard stratum of earth lying beneath the soil; hence, figuratively, the firm, substantial, fundamental part or quality of anything; as, the hard pan of character, of a matter in dispute, etc. See Pan…

The menhaden. See Menhaden. [Local, U.S.]

In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [Local, U. S.]