The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . prjptmus. is alarge animal of 8<tutliern and eastern Africa, of a brownc<»bir, with a white ellipse on the rump. It stands 12 or Kihands high, and has horns 2 feet or more in length. Otherkot»s are Hie leclie-antelope, A, leche; the jHKjkoo, A, cfrr-duni; and the nsuiinu, K. leucotia. See Khiu<, 1. koba (kobJl), n, Siime as kub. kobalt, w. See cobalt. kobang, koban (kobang), m. [Jap., lit. smallilivision/ < I:o, lit- tle, + ban (= ) 3- cutti
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . prjptmus. is alarge animal of 8<tutliern and eastern Africa, of a brownc<»bir, with a white ellipse on the rump. It stands 12 or Kihands high, and has horns 2 feet or more in length. Otherkot»s are Hie leclie-antelope, A, leche; the jHKjkoo, A, cfrr-duni; and the nsuiinu, K. leucotia. See Khiu<, 1. koba (kobJl), n, Siime as kub. kobalt, w. See cobalt. kobang, koban (kobang), m. [Jap., lit. smallilivision/ < I:o, lit- tle, + ban (= ) 3- cutting ordivision.] An ob-long gold coinwith rounded cor-ners, formerly cur-rent in Japan. Itwas about 2 Indieslong and 11 inchesbroad, weiglieil original-ly nhout ZDO grains troy,and was consequentlyworth from 15 to Hi bu,though in the early daysof foreign trade with Ja-pan it was valued at only4 bu (etpiivalent to onerif^ or ounce of silverXThin unfrtvnrabte rate ofexcliange having almostdrained the country ofIts grdd, the govern-ment became ulanned,anil after adopting sev-eral palliative measuresultimately reduced the. ISizc of the uritjinal.) 3310 weight of the kobang to 51 grains troy, with an averagetlneness of Also spelled cobanQ. Compare Obang,kobaoba (ko-ba-oba), H. [African.] The long-horned white rhinoceros of Africa, Rhinoceros(Atelodiia) (kobel-it), n. [After Franz vonKiibell, a German mineralogist and poet (1803-8:2).] A mineral of a l)lackish lead-gray or steel-gray color. It is a sulphid of antimony, bis-muth, and (kobold), n. [= D. hibold = Sw. < (t. kobold, < MHU. kobolt, a spirit ofthe hearth, a fairy, goblin; perhaps < , G. kobcii, a room, cabin (= AS. eofri, ), + -w(dt (reduced to -o!t, -old, as in herold= E. Jicrald) (= AS. -we(dda), ruler, < u-alieii,wield, rule; the sense being equiv. to AS. cof-god, in pi. cofyodas, lares, jienates, householdgods—a word containing the s
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