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A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

d like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.

color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.

A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and…

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), Taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.

An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.

A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes." Jowett. -- To put out of court, to refuse further judicial hearing.

A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House. Barlett.

s of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.

An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).