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Nose. [Obs.] Piers plowman.

Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Pertaining to the city o -- n. sing. & pl.

A native of Bologna. Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.

Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- n. sing. & pl.

y water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular poss…

To breathe heavily; to snort. [Obs.] Chaucer.

merican Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.

Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java. -- n. sing. & pl.

The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.

Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain. -- n. sing. & pl.