white footed mouse

[DEER-MOUSE.] *White Friars, s. pl. Church Hist .: A popular English name in pre Reformation times for the friars of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, now generally known as Carmelites. The name had reference to the fact that they wore over the brown habit a white scapular and cloak. [CARMELITE, SCAPULAR, B. 1.] "They were recognized as one of the Mendicant orders; our ancestors knew them as the White Friars."Addis & Arnold : Cath. Dict ., p. 121. white-fronted lemur, 8. Zool.: Lemur albifrons , from Madagascar. It is phant [1.]. The sacred elephant has an enormous appetite, and, being sacred, it is a crime to let it die, so that the gift generally entails ruin on the recipient.