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The Asiatic gazelle.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.

See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.

The supreme deity, the principle of good, creator of the world, and guardian of mankind. He is the opponent of Ahriman, the spirit of evil, both being sprung from Eternity, or, according to another version, Ahriman being the offspring of a moment of doubt on the part of Ormazd. Ormazd is attended by angels and archange…

See Utes.

A marmoset.

Ahungered; longing. [Archaic]

etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

The ahu or Asiatic gazelle.

To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. "The jumping chariots." Nahum iii. 2. A flock of geese jump down together. Dryden.

iots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.

Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.

The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. -- Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of…

The ahu, or jairou.

Same as Tabor. Nahum ii. 7.

separated from her husband; a grass widow. [Colloq.] Widow-in-mourning (Zoöl.), the macavahu. -- Widow monkey (Zoöl.), a small South American monkey (Callithrix lugens); -- so called on account of its color, which is black except the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure white around the face. -- Wid…