GLOSSARY. 



Common Words in Local Use Throughout North America. 



A. 



ft.CBQUiA (Texas and New Mexico). — A 

 water ditch, 



A.DOBE. — ^The sun-dned bricks of which 

 houses in the South-west are built. 



Aguardiente (Sp.) — A Mexican intoxi- 

 cating liquor. 



AMATEUR.^rOne who engages in field- 

 sports from pure love thereof, irre- 

 spective of profit to be derived from 

 their pursuit. 



Antlers. — The solid, branching, decidu- 

 ous horns of the deer family. 



Apishamore (South-west). — A saddle- 

 blanket made of buffalo calf-skin. 



Aqua Scutem. — A small water-proof cape 

 capable of being folded in a very small 

 compass. 



Areca Nut. — A remedy for worms in 

 dogs, 



Arroyo (Texas and New Mexico). — A 

 valley between mountains. 



Avast (Naut.). — Stop ! hold on ! 



Awash. — Just above the sur&ce as a rock 

 over which the waves barely break. 



Babbler. — A dog which yelps or gives too 

 much tongue when at work. 



Back. — To support, as a dog stands in on 

 the point made by another dog. 



Badger. — To beset- on all sides, harass, 

 and worry. 



Bag. — The amount of game secured on a 

 hunt. 



Bag, v. t. — To secure and gather the game 

 shot. 



Baille. — A Mexican ball or dancing party. 



Bait. — Refreshment; a lure for a trap or 

 fish-hook. 



Bait, v.— To feed a horse. 



Ball, v. i. — To mass together, as shot 

 when discharged from a gun ; to accu- 

 mulate soft snow or mud in the hoofk. 



Bandana. — A parti-colored kerchief worn 

 around the head in the fashion of a tur- 

 ban. 



Banquette. — A pavement or sidewalk 

 (New Orleans), 



Bar. — A netting to protect a room or bed 

 from musquitoes and other insects ; a 



shoal under water ; a stand along th« 

 coast for wild fowl shooting. 



Bark — A birch canoe. 



Barker, — A bark-peeler. 



Barkstone. — Castoreum ; the musky suj>- 

 stance obtained from the beaver, used 

 by trappers. 



Barranca (Sp.) — A rocky, precipitous 

 defile. 



Batteau.— A flat-bottom boat, with high 

 stem and stern, sharp at both ends, 

 much used by lumbermen. 



Battue. — A grand hunt in which every- 

 thing is game which comes to the ba^. 



Battery. — A floating, oblong box, with 

 wings of boards or canvas, hinged to its 

 sides and resting on the water, so as to 

 break the waves. The gunner conceals 

 himself in the box. 



Bead. — The aim taken ; to "drawabead," 

 is to take accurate aim. 



Bear Dog. — The genuine bear dog of 

 LfOuisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, is 

 a triple cross of the hound, the bull- 

 dog, and the ordinary sharp-nosed cur 

 watch-dcg, in which a trace of the In- 

 dian dog IS found, the latter having pri- 

 marily an intermixture of the wolf in 

 him. 



Beard.— The pendant tassel of long hairs 

 attached to the breast of a wild turkey ; 

 the barb of a fish-hook or arrow. 



Beat. — To range through cover with the 

 purpose to start game concealed there- 

 in ; to sail to windward by a system of 

 tacks. 



Bed-rock. — The bottom ; a term signify- 

 ing the lowest point in position, poverty, 

 or anything else. 



Beef (Western). — A stake or prize to be 

 shot for. " To shoot for beef," is to 

 shoot for a stake, or literally, a steak. 



Bell-mare. — An animal used in herd- 

 ing mules, which follow wherever she 

 goes ; a madrina. 



Bell- mouthed. — Clear - voiced, as a 

 hound. 



Belton. — The ticked or spotted Laverack 

 setter. Beltons are either blue or 

 lemon. 



Bench. — A river terrace; the ancient 

 water-mark of a past geologic age. 



Bench Show. — An exhibition oi do^s or 

 other animus, whose merits are decided 



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