Mastiff
a variety of dog of an old English breed, probably peculiar to the British Isles. It is the Dogue de forte race of Buffon, the Canis molossus of Linnæus, C. mastivus of Ray, and C. villaticus or catenarius of Caius. The head over the lower jaw. The end of the tail is turned up, and the fifth toe of the hind the ears dependent. The upper lip falls over the lower jaw. The end of the tail is turned up, and the fifth toe of the hind food is frequently developed. The nosthe animal grave and noble. bark is deep-toned, and the aspect of the animal grave and noble.
MASTODON (mas'-), an extinct genus of proboscideans, closely allied to the true elephants. The crowns of the molar in pairs, and from the number of these projections Falconer divided the genus into groups: (1) Trilophodon, and (2) Tetralophodon. Generally speaking, the two upper incisors formed long curved cases there were two lower incisors as tusks, as in the elephants, but in some well. The genus ranged in time from the middle of the Miocene period to the end of the Pliocene in the Old World, when they became extinct. In America several species especially that which, from the abundance of its remains, is the best known, M. ohioticus americanus, or giganteus-survived to a late Pleistocene period.
In 1897 the skeleton of a mastodon, the largest yet discovered, was unearthed on a farm near New Paris, O. It was been a morass, and was buried 10 feet found in what had evidently at one time below the surface, where from all indications it had lain for centuries. It was very nearly perfect, and though some of the bones crumbled away on exreplaced. The mastodon is believed to posure to the air, they were cleverly have been for some time a contemporary and A. M.), a degree conferred by uni- MASTER OF ARTS (abbreviated M.A. SINGERS.