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A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.

A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut. [South Africa]

A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.

as resembling an immense octopus. To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.

A lively Polish dance. See Cracovienne.

A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained.

Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as, krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]

See Bacharach.

White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.

Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.

Lit., wreath of songs; -- used as the title of a group of songs, and esp. as the common name for German vocal clubs of men.

A kind of linen cloth anciently used in England, originally imported from Brittany. Shak.

To seek for, expose, or charge, esp. habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on "The Man with the Muck Rake," in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The p…

A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk be…

An annual plant (Abelmoschus, or Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]

A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.

A sort of fine buckram.