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Same as Banxring.

Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.

Of or pertaining to the tanagers.

Tanagrine.

An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [R.]

The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

A Spanish gypsy.

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

The see of a metropolitan bishop. Milman.

Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird (Zoöl.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

A salt of titanic acid.

A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin.

The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis or Caprovis montana).