Alligator, a N. American fresh-water crocodile, numerous in the Mississippi and the lakes and rivers of Louisiana and Carolina; subsists on fish, and though timid, is dangerous when attacked; is slow in turning, however, and its attacks can be easily evaded.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Allies, Thomas William * Allingham, William