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Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

is story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.

d immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the Indonesian race.

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic…

A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.

A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect: one not having any negro blood (Ark.…

A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter- colored members.