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inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. (Bot.) See under Ant. -- French rice. (Bot.) See Amelcorn. -- Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American Indians. It is com…

Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.

The Java sparrow.

Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

etousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

A female professional singer.

n feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion. "Caprices of appetite." W. Irving.

A cicatrix.

A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

A feminine deserter. Milton.

An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A little pig. [Written also grise.] [Scot.]

See Improvvisatrice.

A female improvvisatore. [Written also improvisatrice.]

A female interlocutor.

The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and medicinal purposes. Licorice fern (Bot.), a name of several kinds of polypody which have rootstocks of a sweetish flavor. -- Licorice sugar. (Chem.) See Glycyrrhizin. -- Licorice weed (Bot.), the tropical plant Scapania aulcis. -- Mountain licorice (Bo…

See Licorice.