Ebro River, river, the longest in Spain. The Ebro rises in springs at Fontibre near Reinosa in the Cantabrian Mountains, in the Cantabria province of northern Spain. It flows for 565 miles (910 km) in a southeasterly course to its delta on the Mediterranean coast in Tarragona province, midway

Al-Wāḥāt al-Khārijah, oasis in the Libyan (Western) Desert, part of Al-Wādī al-Jadīd (“New Valley”) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in south-central Egypt. It is situated about 110 miles (180 km) west-southwest of Najʿ Ḥammādī, to which it is linked by railroad. The name Wāḥāt al-Khārijah means “Outer

hibiscus, (genus Hibiscus), genus of numerous species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in the mallow family (Malvaceae) that are native to warm temperate and tropical regions. Several are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flowers, and a number are useful as fibre plants. The leaves are often

hibiscus, (genus Hibiscus), genus of numerous species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in the mallow family (Malvaceae) that are native to warm temperate and tropical regions. Several are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flowers, and a number are useful as fibre plants. The leaves are often

musk mallow, (Abelmoschus moschatus), annual or biennial plant of the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to India. Musk mallow is cultivated for its seeds, which are used in perfumes as a replacement for musk, and is a source of an essential oil that is used in traditional medicine and to flavour

kenaf, (species Hibiscus cannabinus), fast-growing plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae) and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. It is used mainly as a jute substitute. The plant grows wild in Africa, where the fibre is sometimes known as Guinea hemp, and has been cultivated on

okra, (Abelmoschus esculentus), herbaceous hairy annual plant of the mallow family (Malvaceae) and its edible fruit. It is native to the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere and is widely cultivated or naturalized in the tropics and subtropics of the Western Hemisphere. Only the tender unripe fruit is

Malvaceae, the hibiscus, or mallow, family (order Malvales) containing some 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics. A number of species are economically important,

musk mallow, (Abelmoschus moschatus), annual or biennial plant of the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to India. Musk mallow is cultivated for its seeds, which are used in perfumes as a replacement for musk, and is a source of an essential oil that is used in traditional medicine and to flavour

Malvales, medium-sized order, known as the Hibiscus or mallow order, mostly of woody plants, consisting of 10 families, 338 genera, and about 6,000 species. The plants grow in various habitats throughout much of the world, and a number of members are important commercially. In the Angiosperm

Chinese hibiscus, (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), perennial species of hibiscus of the mallow family (Malvaceae), cultivated for its large brightly coloured flowers. Chinese hibiscus is the most common species of hibiscus and is grown as an ornamental hedge in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

roselle, (Hibiscus sabdariffa), plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae) and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. Roselle is probably native to West Africa and includes Hibiscus sabdariffa, variety altissima, grown for fibre, and H. sabdariffa, variety sabdariffa, cultivated for the

roselle: …to West Africa and includes Hibiscus sabdariffa, variety altissima, grown for fibre, and H. sabdariffa, variety sabdariffa, cultivated for the edible external portion of its flower (calyx). The plant, known in the West Indies early in the 16th century, was growing in Asia by the 17th century. Extensive cultivation in…

roselle: …altissima, grown for fibre, and H. sabdariffa, variety sabdariffa, cultivated for the edible external portion of its flower (calyx). The plant, known in the West Indies early in the 16th century, was growing in Asia by the 17th century. Extensive cultivation in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) began in…

hibiscus: Major species: The East African hibiscus (H. schizopetalus), a drooping shrub with deeply lobed red petals, is often grown in hanging baskets indoors.

rose of Sharon, (Hibiscus syriacus, or Althaea syriaca), shrub or small tree, in the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to eastern Asia but widely planted as an ornamental for its showy flowers. It can attain a height of 3 metres (10 feet) and generally assumes a low-branching

meteorite: Matrix: …olivine, corundum, spinel, chromite, and hibonite.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās was a Companion of the prophet Muḥammad, one of the greatest scholars of early Islām, and the first exegete of the Qurʾān. In the early struggles for the caliphate, Ibn ʿAbbās supported ʿAlī and was rewarded with the governorship of Baṣra. Subsequently he defected and

Hejaz Railway, railroad between Damascus, Syria, and Medina (now in Saudi Arabia), one of the principal railroads of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Its main line was constructed in 1900–08, ostensibly to facilitate pilgrimages to the Muslims’ holy places in Arabia but in fact also to strengthen

hiccup, spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm (the muscular partition separating the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity) which causes a sudden intake of breath that is involuntarily cut off by closure of the glottis (the opening between the vocal cords), thus producing a characteristic sound.

hiccup, spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm (the muscular partition separating the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity) which causes a sudden intake of breath that is involuntarily cut off by closure of the glottis (the opening between the vocal cords), thus producing a characteristic sound.

heliocentrism: … the Greek philosophers Philolaus and Hicetas speculated separately that the Earth was a sphere revolving daily around some mystical “central fire” that regulated the universe. Two centuries later, Aristarchus of Samos extended this idea by proposing that the Earth and other planets moved around a definite central object, which he…

Zambia: Zambia in the 21st century: …garnered by his nearest competitor, Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND). Lungu was sworn in as president on January 25.

hichiriki, Japanese short, double-reed wind instrument, similar to the oboe. The present Japanese form is about 18 cm (7 inches) long and has seven finger holes on the front of the instrument and two thumb holes on the back. It is made of internally lacquered bamboo and wrapped with bands of cherry

cricket: Zimbabwe: …world by beating Australia, yet Graeme Hick, arguably the country’s best batsman, left shortly thereafter to play for England.

Christianity: Faith and reason: … (developed by the British philosopher John Hick) refers to the way in which an object, event, or situation is experienced as having a particular character or meaning such that to experience it in this manner involves being in a dispositional state to behave in relation to the object or event,…

John Hickenlooper is an American Democratic politician who was elected to represent the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate in 2020. He had previously served as governor of the state (2011–19). Hickenlooper and his three elder siblings were raised by their mother alone after their father died of

John Hickenlooper is an American Democratic politician who was elected to represent the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate in 2020. He had previously served as governor of the state (2011–19). Hickenlooper and his three elder siblings were raised by their mother alone after their father died of

Olga Samaroff was an American pianist who also found a successful and varied career as a music educator. At age 14, Olga Hickenlooper, who had taken piano lessons from her mother and her grandmother (the latter a concert pianist of some note), went to Paris to continue her studies. A year later she

Spanish literature: Women writers: …wrote for the public stage: Margarita Hickey and María Rosa Gálvez were both quite successful, with the former producing translations of Jean Racine and Voltaire and the latter composing some 13 original plays from opera and light comedy to high tragedy. Gálvez’s Moratín-style comedy Los figurones literarios (1804; “The Literary…

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 10th Baronet: …landmark definition of obscenity (Regina v. Hicklin, 1868), in which he stated the test of obscenity as, “whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may…

rocket and missile system: The bazooka: Beginning in mid-1940, Clarence N. Hickman, who had worked with Robert Goddard during World War I, supervised the development of a refined design of the hand-launched rocket. The new rocket, about 20 inches (50 centimetres) long, 2.36 inches in diameter, and weighing 3.5 pounds, was fired from a…

Marvel Comics: The Marvel universe: …Michael Bendis (Daredevil, The Avengers), Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic Four), and Ed Brubaker (Captain America), became well known for their mature and sometimes controversial takes on Marvel’s characters. The 2010s saw the emergence of another new wave of talent, with writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja turning in a visually…

Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. His reputation as a gunfighter gave rise to legends and tales about his life. He was one of the early “heroes of the West” popularized in the dime novels of the late 19th and early

Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. His reputation as a gunfighter gave rise to legends and tales about his life. He was one of the early “heroes of the West” popularized in the dime novels of the late 19th and early

hickory, (genus Carya), genus of about 18 species of deciduous timber and nut-producing trees of the walnut family (Juglandaceae). About 15 species of hickory are native to North America and 3 to eastern Asia. Fossil remains identifiable as belonging to the genus are found in western North America,

Hickory, city, Catawba county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies near the Catawba River (there dammed to form Lake Hickory) just east of the Appalachian foothills and about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Charlotte. A store was established on the site in 1846 at the junction of two

hickory: Physical description: …which is not a true nut, is enclosed in a fleshy husk that splits into four woody valves as it matures.

shad: cepedianum), also called hickory shad and fall herring, ranges through the southern United States. Others are found in the Indo-Pacific and Australian waters. None is of particular economic value.

Hickory, city, Catawba county, west-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies near the Catawba River (there dammed to form Lake Hickory) just east of the Appalachian foothills and about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Charlotte. A store was established on the site in 1846 at the junction of two

minstrel show: …number of these, including the Hicks and Sawyer Minstrels, had Black owners and managers. Some, such as Callendar’s Consolidated Spectacular Colored Minstrels, were popular in both the United States and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Initially these shows were staged by all-male companies that included male…

Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 9th Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served as the chancellor of the Exchequer (1885–86, 1895–1902). The son of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, he was educated at Eton and at Christ Church College, Oxford. Succeeding as 9th baronet in 1854,

Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian who was considered a “comedian’s comedian” and who was a star in Britain, though he never experienced wide success in the United States during his career in the 1980s and early 1990s. His life was cut short at age 32 by pancreatic cancer, but in death

Rasul v. Bush: …Asif Iqbal, Mamdouh Habib, and David Hicks, who had been seized in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001–02 and eventually turned over to U.S. authorities. The four men were transferred to the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, where they were held without charge, trial, or access to counsel. In 2002, Rasul, Iqbal,…

Edward Hicks was an American primitive, or folk, painter known for his naive depictions of the farms and landscape of Pennsylvania and New York, and especially for his many versions (about 25 extant, perhaps 100 painted) of The Peaceable Kingdom. The latter work depicts Hicks’s belief, as a Quaker,

Elias Hicks was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States and a liberal Quaker preacher whose followers became known as Hicksites, one of two factions created by the schism of 1827–28 in American Quakerism. After assisting in ridding the Society of Friends (Quakers) of

Sheila Hicks is an American artist renowned for her groundbreaking approach to textile art, creating fiber works that defy traditional two-dimensional forms. Her work incorporates raw materials, such as linen flax, wool, synthetic threads, and industrial fibers as well as found objects, including

Granville Hicks was a critic, novelist, and teacher who was one of the foremost practitioners of Marxist criticism in American literature. After graduating from Harvard University with the highest honours and studying two years for the ministry, Hicks joined the Communist Party in 1934. As literary

Sheila Hicks is an American artist renowned for her groundbreaking approach to textile art, creating fiber works that defy traditional two-dimensional forms. Her work incorporates raw materials, such as linen flax, wool, synthetic threads, and industrial fibers as well as found objects, including

William Terriss: …husband, the actor-manager and dramatist Sir (Edward) Seymour Hicks (1871–1949). She was leading lady at several London theatres. Appearing in her husband’s plays, she toured the United States with him. Returning to London in 1895, she subsequently starred in two of Hicks’s hits during the 1920s, Sleeping Partners and The…

Sir John R. Hicks was an English economist who made pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and, in 1972, shared (with Kenneth J. Arrow) the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1964. Hicks made major contributions to many areas of 20th-century economics; four, in

Sir John R. Hicks was an English economist who made pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and, in 1972, shared (with Kenneth J. Arrow) the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was knighted in 1964. Hicks made major contributions to many areas of 20th-century economics; four, in

Taylor Hicks is an American blues-soul singer who became a well-known artist during his run on the television competition show American Idol in 2005–06. He ended up winning the singing competition and earned a recording contract in honour of his success. Although Hicks has no formal musical

Taylor Hicks is an American blues-soul singer who became a well-known artist during his run on the television competition show American Idol in 2005–06. He ended up winning the singing competition and earned a recording contract in honour of his success. Although Hicks has no formal musical

the Hollies: February 2, 1942, Blackpool, Lancashire), Tony Hicks (b. December 16, 1943, Nelson, Lancashire), Eric Haydock (b. February 3, 1943, Burnley, Lancashire—d. January 5, 2019), Bernie Calvert (b. September 16, 1943, Burnley), and Terry Sylvester (b. January 8, 1947, Liverpool, Merseyside).

al-Mahdī: Rise to power: …camel train, commanded by General William Hicks, was butchered almost to a man. El Obeid, the present-day Al-Ubayyiḍ, provincial capital of Kordofan, and Bāra, a chief town of that province, fell after being besieged by al-Mahdī. He now committed his first acts as the head of an armed theocracy on…

Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian who was considered a “comedian’s comedian” and who was a star in Britain, though he never experienced wide success in the United States during his career in the 1980s and early 1990s. His life was cut short at age 32 by pancreatic cancer, but in death

Elias Hicks: …but orthodox Quakers labeled them Hicksites. The Hicksites remained isolated from other Quakers until the 20th century, when mutual cooperation began to prevail.

Hida Range, mountain group in the Chūbu chihō (region) of central Honshu, Japan. The range stretches from north to south along the borders of Toyama, Niigata, Nagano, and Gifu ken (prefectures). With the Kiso and Akaishi ranges, it constitutes the Central Mountain Knot of Japan. The Hida Range was

Hida Range, mountain group in the Chūbu chihō (region) of central Honshu, Japan. The range stretches from north to south along the borders of Toyama, Niigata, Nagano, and Gifu ken (prefectures). With the Kiso and Akaishi ranges, it constitutes the Central Mountain Knot of Japan. The Hida Range was

Hidaka Range, mountain range, southernmost portion of the Shiribeshi Mountain system, on Hokkaido, Japan, projecting into the Pacific Ocean at Cape Erimo. The mountains are west of the Tokachi Plain. The seaward margin of the range is skirted by marine terraces that reach their maximum height of

Hidaka Range, mountain range, southernmost portion of the Shiribeshi Mountain system, on Hokkaido, Japan, projecting into the Pacific Ocean at Cape Erimo. The mountains are west of the Tokachi Plain. The seaward margin of the range is skirted by marine terraces that reach their maximum height of

Latin American architecture: Architecture of the new independent republics, c. 1810–70: In Mexico Lorenzo de la Hidalga, who graduated from the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, continued the Neoclassical tradition with his Santa Anna Theatre of 1844 (with 3,000 seats), his remodeling of the Plaza Mayor (1843), his Penitentiary of Leon (1850s), and his Plaza de Toros…

Hidalgo, estado (state), east-central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of San Luis Potosí to the north, Veracruz to the north and northeast, Puebla to the east, Tlaxcala and México to the south, and Querétaro to the west. The state capital and largest city is Pachuca (Pachuca de Soto). Northern

hidalgo, in Spain, a hereditary noble or, in the later Middle Ages and the modern era, a knight or member of the gentry. The term appeared in the 12th century as fidalgus, or Castilian hidalgo, supposedly a contraction of hijo de algo, “son of something,” and it applied to all nobles, but

Viggo Mortensen: …played the swashbuckling hero of Hidalgo (2004), about a cross-desert horse race. He later earned acclaim for two films directed by David Cronenberg: A History of Violence (2005), in which he was cast as a small-town hero with a dark secret, and Eastern Promises (2007), about the Russian criminal underworld…

asteroid: Asteroids in unusual orbits: Another asteroid, (944) Hidalgo, is also thought by some to be a defunct comet because of its unusual orbit. That object, discovered in 1920, travels sunward as near as 2.02 AU, which is at the inner edge of the main asteroid belt, and as far as 9.68 AU,…

Hidalgo, county, southwestern New Mexico, U.S.; it is bordered by Arizona on the west and Mexico on the south and east. The county’s northwestern area, featuring alkali flats and crossed by the Gila River, lies in the Colorado Plateau. The remainder is in the Mexican Highland section of the Basin

Hidalgo del Parral, city, south-central Chihuahua estado (state), north-central Mexico. The city, renamed in honor of the patriot Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, lies on the Parral River 5,449 feet (1,661 meters) above sea level and south of Chihuahua, the state capital. An important mining town in the

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who is called the father of Mexican independence. Hidalgo was the second child born to Cristóbal Hidalgo and his wife. He studied at a Jesuit secondary school, received a bachelor’s degree in theology and philosophy in

Bertrand Delanoë: …and he was succeeded by Anne Hidalgo, the first woman to serve as mayor of Paris.

Hidatsa, North American Indians of the Plains who once lived in semipermanent villages on the upper Missouri River between the Heart and the Little Missouri rivers in what is now North Dakota. The Hidatsa language is a member of the Siouan language family. Until the reservation period began in the

Hidatsa: The Hidatsa language is a member of the Siouan language family.

Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda: An English translation, Duties of the Heart (1925–47; reprinted 1962), was completed by Moses Hyamson.

Sadeq Hedayat was an Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century. Born into a prominent aristocratic family, Hedayat was educated first in Tehrān and then studied dentistry and engineering in

Gurugram, city, southeastern Haryana state, northwestern India. It is situated between Delhi (northeast) and Rewari (southwest), to which it is connected by road and rail. Gurugram was traditionally an agricultural trade centre. By the last decades of the 20th century, however, manufacturing had

Arabic literature: Categories and forms: …camel drivers’ songs, known as al-ḥidāʾ. The urjūzah (a poem composed in rajaz) was also utilized for verbal display and other types of didactic and even obscene poetry.

Al-Muḥarraq: Al-Ḥadd, another sizable town on the island, is on a spit at its southeast tip. South of Al-Ḥadd on a man-made island at the end of a 7-mile-long causeway is a shipbuilding yard and drydock financed by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC).…

Tigris-Euphrates river system: The Tigris (Sumerian: Idigna; Akkadian: Idiklat; biblical: Hiddekel; Arabic: Dijlah; Turkish: Dicle) is about 1,180 miles (1,900 km) in length.

Michael Haneke: …success, though, with Caché (2005; Hidden), in which the mysterious appearance of surveillance videos on a family’s doorstep sets in motion a voyeuristic thriller that doubles as a meditation on postcolonial tensions. The film won three prizes at the Cannes film festival, including one for best director.

Ken Loach: He gained further attention with Hidden Agenda (1990), a political thriller set in Northern Ireland, which shared the jury prize at the Cannes film festival. Loach’s next two films were relatively lighthearted, even comic, affairs, though they remained grounded in the everyday realities of the British working class: Riff-Raff (1991)…

Mahershala Ali: Henson) in the movie Hidden Figures (2016). He later received a second Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in Green Book (2018), the story of an unlikely friendship between an African American classical pianist and the working-class bouncer he hires to drive him on a tour of…

Mary Jackson: …for Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, which was made into an acclaimed film; both were released in 2016.

George Lucas: Star Wars: …Kurosawa’s Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958; The Hidden Fortress). Lucas’s film was immediately popular and eventually made more than $775 million worldwide. It was the first of Lucas’s films to be made with a generous budget, which he extended by shooting on soundstages in England, then far less expensive than Hollywood.…

sabermetrics: Bill James and the advent of sabermetrics: Two years later The Hidden Game of Baseball, coauthored by John Thorn and sabermetrician Pete Palmer, was published. In addition to summarizing a number of the key sabermetric principles known at the time, it also popularized “linear weights,” which essentially hearkened back to Lane’s work of many decades…

Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Ḥujjah is venerated by the Ithnā ʿAshariyyah, or Twelver sect, the main body of Shīʿite Muslims. It is believed that Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Ḥujjah has been concealed by God (a doctrine known as ghaybah, or occultation) and that he will reappear in time as the mahdī, a messianic

Terrence Malick: …to World War II for A Hidden Life (2019), a drama based on the life of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector who refused to swear an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

drafting: Hidden lines: …of an object that is hidden from view. A drafter—in deciding whether a line in a view should be represented as hidden or as visible—relies on the fact that in third-angle projection the near side of the object is near the adjacent view, but in first-angle projection the near side…

dark matter, a component of the universe whose presence is discerned from its gravitational attraction rather than its luminosity. Dark matter makes up 30.1 percent of the matter-energy composition of the universe; the rest is dark energy (69.4 percent) and “ordinary” visible matter (0.5 percent).

neural tube defect: In spina bifida occulta, or hidden spina bifida, the vertebrae fail to completely enclose the spinal cord, but the latter is normal in form and is covered by the skin of the back. This form of the defect has no effect on body functions and may…

computer graphics: 3-D rendering: This technique of “hidden surface elimination” may be done by extending the pixel attributes to include the “depth” of each pixel in a scene, as determined by the object of which it is a part. Algorithms can then compute which surfaces in a scene are visible and which…

subatomic particle: Hidden symmetry: Throughout the 1950s, theorists tried to construct field theories for the nuclear forces that would exhibit the same kind of gauge symmetry inherent in James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electrodynamics and in QED. There were two major problems, which were in fact related.…

treasure trove, in law, coin, bullion, gold, or silver articles, found hidden in the earth, for which no owner can be discovered. In most of feudal Europe, where the prince was looked on as the ultimate owner of all lands, his claim to the treasure trove became, according to the founder of

quantum mechanics: Hidden variables: A fundamental concept in quantum mechanics is that of randomness, or indeterminacy. In general, the theory predicts only the probability of a certain result. Consider the case of radioactivity. Imagine a box of atoms with identical nuclei that can undergo decay with the

deep web, a part of the Internet that extends beyond the reach of search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing because it includes unindexed sites, fee-for-service (FFS) content, and private databases such as password-protected e-mail accounts. As such, it is a widely effective source of mass

hiddenite, green, semiprecious variety of the silicate mineral spodumene

Gregory Maguire: Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker (2017); and A Wild Winter Swan (2020), a reimagining of the fairy tale “The Wild Swans” by Hans Christian Andersen. In 2021 Maguire published The Brides of Maracoor. It was the first book in the projected…

Tom Hiddleston is a classically trained English actor who became known for his performances as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Outside of Marvel, Hiddleston also built a diverse career onstage as well as in television and films. Hiddleston was raised in Wimbledon, London, by his father,

Tom Hiddleston is a classically trained English actor who became known for his performances as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Outside of Marvel, Hiddleston also built a diverse career onstage as well as in television and films. Hiddleston was raised in Wimbledon, London, by his father,

hide, the pelt taken from a cow, steer, or bull of the bovine species, from the pelt of a horse, or from the integument of some other large adult animal. The pelts of smaller animals are commonly called skins—namely, sheepskins, goatskins, calfskins, etc. For the preservation and tanning of hides,