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An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.

Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.

Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

Of a yellowish color.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

In Turkey, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They are appointed directly by the Sultan.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

A becoming dumb; loss of speech. Sir T. Browne.

See Utes.

Slightly woody at the base.

ion, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being prese…

ich completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wi…

One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [R.] Walker.

; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.