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A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciæna ocellata). See Redfish.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

atement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. South.

rsion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South.

A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

r, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

inquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutt…

ving the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.

A tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodioi), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart.

A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

etween the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

ina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

mely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.

A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidæ, of several species; the campanero.

ness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome. Kind influences and benign aspects. South.

om their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

ic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.