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issures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

ead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha (A. canescens), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. Gray. -- Lead tree. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, Leucæna glauca; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the…

n the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month.

A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

f education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a.

make love to. See under Love, n. -- To make meat, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] -- To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. -- To make much of, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. -- To make no bones. See under Bone, n. -- To make no difference…

A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]

A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.…

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. [Western U. S.]

In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who naglected to brand his cattle.

leman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [Western U. S.]

A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc. [Southwestern U. S.]

A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b). -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in We…