Gingflham

[Fr.] A kind of cotton cloth made in Guingamp. in Britt any. Some ginghams are of one color, but others are woven in stripes or checks. The origin of gingham is also given as from a Javanese word, and the cloth so called is said to have been first made in India. OF COMMON THINGS 69 [Fr., from Arab.] A ruminant animal with permanent horns in both sexes, and dis¬ by the length of its legs and the length of its neck. It has points of with the deer, the antelope, and the camel, and others peculiar to itself. It is the animal in existence, measuring in some cases from 18 to 20 feet from the top of its head to the ground. Its home is in the woods of South Africa. Leaves of acacia trees are its chief food. It also eats green herbs, but to do this it stretches out its fore feet and bends its neck to collect the gra . Its eye is very beaut i¬ and large, and shaded with long eyelashes. Its enemy is the lion, which watches for it when on the margin of rivers and pools. It by kicking with its hind legs, delivering with great rapidity, and often wounding driving off the lion. It is not easily over¬ even by a fast horse. It is also known as Camelopard, (from Gr. kamelos, camel; and leopard.) [AS.] A strong beam in a building, at both ends, for binding the others Half-lattice girder, a girder consist¬ ing of horizontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions, so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. A narrow band of cloth or leather for the waist. Venus girdle is a long, flat, ribbon-like, transparent, comb-like marine animal which in the open sea. [Fr.] A bird’s stomach. A hen swal¬ food without chewing, which is at once in the crop, where it remains till it is softened. The food then pa es into the gizzard, where it is rubbed and ground between tough, THE MER-DE-GLACE GLACIER. hard ribs, like the grooves of a wash-board. To help in this, the gizzard is filled with sharp stones and bits of gravel. These are the hen’s teeth, 645