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Tiger-foot :: Tiger-foot (n.) Same as Tiger's-foot.

Three-pointed :: Three-pointed (a.) Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.

Carnivorous :: Carnivorous (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics..

Dentiferous :: Dentiferous (a.) Bearing teeth; dentigerous.

Tiger-eye :: Tiger-eye (n.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite..

Crocidolite :: Crocidolite (n.) A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers..

Tiger :: Tiger (n.) A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

Tiger''s-foot :: Tiger's-foot (n.) A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

Make :: Make (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen..

Tigrine :: Tigrine (a.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America..

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

Man-eater :: Man-eater (n.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh..

Bulblet :: Bulblet (n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion..

Dhole :: Dhole (n.) A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs..

Machairodus :: Machairodus (n.) A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers..

Tigrish :: Tigrish (a.) Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

Cat :: Cat (n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat..

Sparkler :: Sparkler (n.) A tiger beetle.

Tiger :: Tiger (n.) Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person..

Tiger :: Tiger (n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress..

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