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A raccoon. See Raccoon.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.

An oblong case in which the silkworn lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

See Pataca.

Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.

l, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

The coypu.

The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

d root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.] Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer.

bout, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.