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f the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

(Geol.) See Cenozic.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

See Cenozoic.

A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

See Melanotype.

Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.

The state or quality of being mountainous.

A small crested passerine bird (Phaïnopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.

Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.

from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

t filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute ves…

One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

er contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.