File:Image from page 141 of The Century dictionary and cyclopedia (1897) (14782008121).jpg

Identifier: centurydictionary01whit Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913 Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: New York : The Century Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book

Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image: '

Text Appearing After Image: Agouti {Dasyprocta a^uti). The American name of several species of rodentmammals of the genus Dasijprocta and familyDasyproefido. The common agouti, or yellow-rumpedcavy! />. (igouti, is of the size of a rabbit. The upper partof the body is brownish, with a mixture of red and black;the belly yellowish. Three varieties are mentioned, allpeculiar to South America and the West Indies. It bur-rows in the ground or in hollow trees, lives on vegetables,doing much injury to the sugar-cane, is as voracious as apig, and makes a similar grunting noise. It holds its foodin its fore paws, like a squirrel. When scared or angryits hair becomes erect, and it strikes the ground with itshind feet. Its fiesh is white and of agreeable taste, andthe animal is pursued as game in Brazil. Also spelledagiili and agvuty. See acouchy and Dasyprocta, agracet, v. t. See aggrace. agraffe (a-graf), ?). [Also, as a historicalterm, agrappe, aggrappe; < F. agrafe, formerlyagraffe, agraplie, a clasp, hook, brac

Note About Images