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eck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. King sora, the Florida gallinule.

Soreness. [Obs.]

Cursory; hasty. [Obs.] With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.

Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

rned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. [Written also Masorah, Massora, and Massorah.]

Same as Masora.

A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.

A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. Ure.

The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.

Of or relating to the Masora, or to its authors. Masoretic points and accents, the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.

One of the writers of the Masora.

In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.

Prairie turnip (Bot.), the edible turnip-shaped farinaceous root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta) of the Upper Missouri region; also, the plant itself. Called also pomme blanche, and pomme de prairie. -- Prairie warbler (Zoöl.), a bright-colored American warbler (Dendroica discolor). The back is olive yello…

The state of being affected with psora. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to psora.

ng. Salve to thy sores. Milton. Salve bug (Zoöl.), a large, stout isopod crustacean (Æga psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.

Same as Sora.

Same as Sorance. [Obs.]