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scharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.

iuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.

To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. Goldsmith.

f merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat, or net, weight.

lied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.…

A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.

olds the hinges. Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath. -- Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon. -- Hanging indentation. See under Indentation. -- Hanging rail (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to whi…

he 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. -- Hard rubber. See under Rubber. -- Hard solder. See unde…

Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] "Underneath this marble hearse." B. Johnson. Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow.

A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

s of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.

Neat; fit; comfortable. [Obs.]

An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

ction, a method of constructing geographical charts or maps, so that the surfaces, as delineated on a plane, have the same relative size as the real surfaces; that is, so that the relative actual areas of the different countries are accurately represented by the corresponding portions of the map.

That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.