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

A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by t…

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.]

Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

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

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

A genus of trees of the order Canellaceæ, growing in the West Indies.

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

To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.

A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.

ns of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. -- Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Lidra, Cancer, and Capricorn. -- Cardinal teeth (Zoöl.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See Bivalve. -- Cardin…

dians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.

A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark (or Cascarila) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, m…

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

A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceæ.

Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

dles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.

this day, have their catechisms. Hooker. The Larger Catechism, The Shorter Catechism. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.