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A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.

To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.

Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents. Bit my bit, piecemeal. Pope.

The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

ure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

uring horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

ally, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.

st of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.

In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara. [Written also Khamseen.]