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seek to avail themselves of names. Milton. I have availed myself of the very first opportunity. Dickens.

e box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.

ond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian Fre…

et of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.

The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter; -- used as a unit of pressure.

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

red building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common America…

The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.

or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. Barbette battery. See Barbette. -- Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. --…

In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

ein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

ions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

t in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.