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The flicker; -- called also high-hole. [Local, U. S.]

The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. Tennyson. Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. Prior.

isions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]

The name is locally applied to various other fishes, as the California hake, the black candlefish, the jurel, the bluefish, etc. -- Horse marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang] -- Horse mussel (Zoöl.), a large, marine mussel (Modiola modiolus), found on the northe…

In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]

forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shak.

Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.] The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.

dice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.

or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. [Written also infair.] [Scot., & Local, U. S.]

esale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon.

ion of a bed or layer between other layers. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.

To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

e river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad. [Local, U. S.]

. See Jamestown weed. [Local, U.S.]

A sculpin. [Local cant] Johny Crapaud (, a jocose designation of a Frenchman, or of the French people, collectively.

To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. [Now disused except locally or colloquially.] Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps. Shak.

The water thrush or accentor. [Local, West Indies]