12) basset hound. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to the scent with a minimum of difficulty. It has also been trained to hunt raccoons and opossum and to retrieve. Renowned for its scenting ability, which is second...

13) marsupial. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., member of the order Marsupialia, or pouched mammals. With the exception of the New World opossums and an obscure S American family (Caenolestidae), marsupials are...

14) The Last Aboriginal by William Sharp. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
...20 Scream of a parrot rings which feels A twining serpent s fangs fixed fast, Or when a gray opossum squeals,— Or long iguana, as it steals From bole to bole, disturbs...

15) 104. Longings for Home. Whitman, Walt. 1900. Leaves of Grass
...through the moon-lit night, The humming-bird, the wild turkey, the raccoon, the opossum; A Tennessee corn-field—the tall, graceful, long-leav d corn—slender, flapping,...

16) Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
...for rattle-snake, pike for turnpike, draw for drawbridge, coon for raccoon, possum for opossum, cuss for customer, cute for acute, squash for askutasquash—these American...

17) §10. Importance to Negro Folk lore. V. Dialect Writers. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The animals that figure in these stories are, in addition to the fox and the rabbit, the opossum, the cow, the bull, the terrapin, the turtle, the wolf, the frog,...

18) VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1914. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
...an occasional armadillo, coati, or agouti for the naturalists. Miller trapped rats and a queer opossum new to the collection. Cherrie got many birds. Cherrie and...

19) Black Hawk to General Street by Chief of the Sacs Black Hawk. America: I. (1761-1837). Vol. VIII. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
...but we got no satisfaction: things were growing worse. There were no deer in the forest. The opossum and beaver were fled. The springs were drying up, and our squaws...

20) Word History Notes Index. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000
...nap1 naughty neighbor nerd nest New Jersey noise nonchalant numb ofay OK1 ombudsman one opossum orange orgy oscillate otorhinolaryngology Ouse River outlaw oyez Pakistan...