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Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the famly Sciuridæ. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits,
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Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the famly Sciuridæ. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows. Note: Among the common North American squirrels are the gray squirrel and its black variety; the fox, or cat, sqirrel which is a large species, and variable in color, the southern variety being frequently black, while the northern and western varieties are usually gray or rusty brown; the red squirrel ; the striped, or chipping, squirrel ; and the California gray squirrel . Several other species inhabit Mexico and Central America. The common European species has a long tuft of hair on each ear. the so-called Australian squirrels are marsupials. See Petaurist, and Phalanger. 2. One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. Barking squirrel , the prairie dog. -- Federation squirrel , the striped gopher. See Gopher, 2. -- Flying squirrel . See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary. -- Java squirrel . See Jelerang. -- Squirrel corn , a North American herb bearing little yellow tubers. -- Squirrel cup , the blossom of the Hepatica triloba, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring. -- Squirrel fish A sea bass of the Southern United States. The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). The redmouth, or grunt. A market fish of Bermuda -- Squirrel grass , a pestiferous grass related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and into the throat, flesh, and eyes of animals, sometimes even producing death. -- Squirrel hake , a common American hake ; -- called also white hake. -- Squirrel hawk , any rough-legged hawk; especially, the California species Archibuteo ferrugineus. -- Squirrel monkey. Any one of several species of small, soft-haired South American monkeys of the genus Calithrix. They are noted for their graceful form and agility. See Teetee. A marmoset. -- Squirrel petaurus , a flying phalanger of Australia. See Phalanger, Petaurist, and Flying phalanger under Flying. -- Squirrel shrew , any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the genus Tupaia. They are allied to the shrews, but have a bushy tail, like that of a squirrel. -- Squirrel-tail grass , a grass found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns. (more info) F. écureuil, LL. squirelus, squirolus, scuriolus, dim. of L. sciurus,
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- ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - GENERABILITY
Capability of being generated. Johnstone. - BUSHY
1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving. 2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - GENERA
See GENUS - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - STRONGYLOID
Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n. - GENERANT
Generative; producing; esp. , - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - ALLICE; ALLIS
The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose. - ALLITERATE
To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat. - ALLIGATION
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain - STRONGYLID
Strongyloid. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - UNREGENERACY
The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill. - INNUMEROUS
Innumerable. Milton. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - CRYSTALLIZATION
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of - MISALLIED
Wrongly allied or associated. - BALLISTER
A crossbow. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation.