A-RE, noun The lowest note but one, in Guido Aretine's scale of music.

AB'BEY-LUBBER, noun A name given to monks, in contempt for their idleness.

ABE'LE or ABEL-TREE noun An obsolete name of the while poplar. [See Poplar.]

A'BLE-BODIED, adjective Having a sound strong body, or a body of competent strength for service. In marine language, it denotes skill in seamanship.

ABOVE-CITED, Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

ABOVE-GROUND, Alive, not buried.

ABOVE-MENTIONED, Mentioned before. adjective Bp. Abbrev. for Archbishop.

AD'DER-FLY, noun a name of the dragon-fly or libellula; sometimes called adder-bolt.

ADDER'S-GRASS, noun A plant about which serpents lurk.

ADDER'S-TONGUE, noun A plant whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

ADDER'S-WORT, noun Snakeweed, so named from its supposed virtue in curing the bite of serpent.

AD'DLE-PATED, adjective Having empty brains.

ADV'ANTAGE-GROUND, noun Ground that gives advantage or superiority; a state that gives superior advantages for annoyance or resistance.

A'ERY-LIGHT, in Milton, light as air; used for airy light.

'AFTER-ACCOUNT, noun A subsequent reckoning.

'AFTER-ACT, noun A subsequent act.

'AFTER-AGES, noun Later ages; succeeding times. After-age, in the singular, is not improper.

'AFTER ALL, is a phrase, signifying, when all has been considered, said or done; at last; in the final result.

'AFTER-BAND, noun A future band.

'AFTER-BIRTH, noun The appendages of the fetus, called also secundines.

'AFTER-CLAP, noun An unexpected, subsequent event; something happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.

'AFTER-COMER, noun A successor.

'AFTER-COMFORT, noun Future comfort

'AFTER-CONDUCT, noun Subsequent behavior.

'AFTER-CONVIC'TION, n Future conviction.

'AFTER-COST, noun Later cost; expense after the execution of the main design.

'AFTER-COURSE, noun Future course.

'AFTER-CROP, noun The second crop in the same year.

'AFTER-DAYS, noun Future days.

'AFTER-EATAGE, noun Part of the increase of the same year. [Local.]

'AFTER-ENDEAV'OR, noun An endeavor after the first or former effort.

'AFTER-GAME, noun A subsequent scheme, or expedient.

'AFTER-GUARD, noun The seaman stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after sails.

'AFTER-HOPE, noun Future hope.

'AFTER-HOURS, noun Hours that follow; time following.

'AFTER-IGNORANCE, noun Subsequent ignorance.

'AFTER-KING, noun A succeeding king.

'AFTER-LIFE, noun

1. Future life or the life after this.

2. A later period of life; subsequent life.

'AFTER-LIVER, noun One who lives in succeeding times.

'AFTER-LOVE, noun The second or later love.

'AFTER-MALICE, noun Succeeding malice.

'AFTER-MATH, noun [after and math. See Mow.]

A second crop of grass, in the same season; rowen.

'AFTER-MOST, adjective superlative In marine language, nearest the stern, opposed to foremost; also hindmost.

'AFTER-NOON', noun The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

'AFTER-PAINS, noun The pains which succeed child birth.

'AFTER-PART, noun The latter part. In marine language, the part of a ship towards the stern.

'AFTER-PIECE, noun A piece performed after a play; a farce or other entertainment.

'AFTER-PROOF, noun Subsequent proof or evidence; qualities known by subsequent experience.

'AFTER-REPENT'ANCE, noun Subsequent repentance.

'AFTER-REPORT, noun Subsequent report, or information.

'AFTER-SAILS, noun The sails on the mizzenmast and stays, between the main and mizzen-masts.

'AFTER-STATE, noun The future state.

'AFTER-STING, noun Subsequent sting.

'AFTER-STORM, noun A succeeding or future storm.

'AFTER-SUPPER, noun The time between supper and going to bed.

'AFTER-SWARM, noun A swarm of bees which leaves the hive after the first.

'AFTER-TASTE, noun A taste which succeeds eating and drinking.

'AFTER-THOUGHT, noun [See Thought.] Reflections after an act; later thought, or expedient occurring too late.

'AFTER-TIMES, noun Succeeding times. It may be used in the singular.

'AFTER-TOSSING, noun The swell or agitation of the sea after a storm.

'AFTER-WISE, adjective Wise afterwards or too late.

'AFTER-WIT, noun Subsequent wit; wisdom that comes too late.

'AFTER-WRATH, noun Later wrath; anger after the provocation has ceased.

'AFTER-WRITER, noun A succeeding writer.

A'GUE-CAKE, noun a hard tumor on the left side of the belly, lower than the false ribs; supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers.

A'GUE-FIT, noun A paroxysm of cold, or shivering; chilliness.

A'GUE-PROOF, noun Able to resist agues; proof against agues.

A'GUE-SPELL, noun A charm or spell to cure or prevent ague.

A'GUE-STRUCK, adjective Struck with ague.

A'GUE-TREE, noun A name sometimes applied to sassafras, on account of its febrifuge qualities.

A'IR-BALLOON. [See Balloon.]

A'IR-BLADDER, noun A vesicle or cuticle filled with air; also, the bladder of a fish.

A'IR-BORN, adjective Born of the air.

A'IR-BRAVING, adjective Braving the winds.

A'IR-BUILT, adjective Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle; air build hopes.

A'IR-DRAWN, adjective Drawn in air; imaginary.

A'IR-GUN, noun A pneumatic engine, resembling a musket, to discharge bullets by means of the elastic force of compressed air.

A'IR-HOLDER, noun [Air and hold.]

An instrument for holding air, for the purpose of counteracting the pressure of a decreasing column of mercury.

A'IR-HOLE, noun An opening to admit or discharge air.

A'IR-JACKET, noun A leather jacket, to which are fastened bags or bladders filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

A'IR-PIPE, noun A pipe used to draw foul air from a ship's hold, by means of a communication with the furnace, and the rarefaction of the air by fire. This pipe is intended to supply the combustion with the air of the hold, by preventing the access of other air to the fire.

A'IR-POISE, noun [Air and poise.]

An instrument to measure the weight of the air.

A'IR-PUMP, noun A machine for exhausting the air of a vessel. The machines for this purpose are of different constructions.

A'IR-SACS, noun Air bags in birds, which are certain receptacles of air, or vesicles lodged in the fleshy parts, in the hollow bones and in the abdomen, which all communicate with the lungs. These are supposed to render the body specifically lighter, and to supply the place of a muscular diaphragm.

A'IR-SHAFT, noun A passage for air into a mine, usually opened in a perpendicular direction, and meeting the adits or horizontal passages, to cause a free circulation of fresh air through the mine.

A'IR-STIRRING, adjective Putting the air in motion.

A'IR-THREAD, noun A name given to the spider's webs, which are often seen floating in the air. These filaments are attached to the tops or ends of branches or shrubs or trees, and serve to support the spider when in quest of prey.

A'IR-THREATENING, adjective Threatening the air; lofty.

A'IR-VESSEL, noun A spiral duct in plants contained air, and supposed to be analogous to the lungs in animals.

A'IRY-FLYING, adjective Flying like air.

AJU'RU-CATINGA, noun A species of American parrot, of a green color, with eyes of a fiery red, encircled with white.

AJU'RU-CURAU, noun An American parrot, of a lively green color, with a blue crown; the throat, and sides of the head, of a fine yellow.

AJU'RU-PARA, noun A small parrot of America, of a beautiful green, with the beak, legs and circlets of the eyes white.

AL'ARM-BELL, noun A bell that gives notice of danger.

AL'ARM-POST, noun A place to which troops are to repair in cases of an alarm.

AL'ARM-WATCH, noun A watch that strikes the hour by regulated movement.

A'LE-BENCH, noun A bench in or before an ale house.

A'LE-BERRY, noun A beverage, made by boiling ale with spice, sugar and sops of bread.

A'LE-BREWER, noun One whose occupation is to brew ale.

A'LE-CONNER, noun [ale and con, to know or see.]

An officer in London, whose business is to inspect the measures used in public houses, to prevent frauds in selling liquors. four of these are chosen annually by the livery men, in common hall, on midsummer's day.

A'LE-COST, noun Costmary, a plant, a species of Tanacetum.

A'LE-FED, adjective Fed with ale.

A'LE-GAR, noun Sour ale; the acid of ale.

A'LE-HOOF, noun

Ground-ivy, the glechoma hederacea, of Linne. The leaves of this plant are used to clarify and give flavor to ale.

A'LE-HOUSE, noun a house where ale is retailed; and hence a tipling house.

A'LE-HOUSE-KEEPER, noun One who keeps an ale-house.

A'LE-KNIGHT, noun a pot companion.

A'LE-SHOT, noun A reckoning to be paid for ale.

A'LE-SILVER, noun A duty paid to the Lord Mayor of London, by the sellers of ale within the city.

A'LE-STAKE, noun a stake set as a sign before an ale-house.

A'LE-TASTER, noun An officer appointed in every court leet, and sworn, to inspect ale, beer and bread, and examine the quality and quantity within the precincts of the lordship.

A'LE-VAT, noun a vat in which ale is fermented.

A'LE-WASHED, adjective Steeped or soaked in ale.

A'LE-WIFE, noun a woman who keeps an ale house.

ALI'KE-MINDED, adjective Having the same mind; but like-minded is more generally used.

ALL-ABAN'DONED, adjective Abandoned by all

ALL-ABHOR'RED, adjective Detested by all.

ALL-ACCOM'PLISHED, adjective Fully accomplished; whose education is highly finished or complete.

ALL-ADMI'RING, adjective Wholly admiring.

ALL-ADVI'SED, adjective Advised by all.

ALL-APPROVED, adjective Approved by all.

ALL-ATO'NING, adjective Atoning for all; making complete atonement.

ALL-BEA'RING, adjective Producing every thing; omniparous.

ALL-BEAU'TEOUS, adjective Perfectly beautiful

ALL-BEHO'LDING, adjective Beholding or seeing all things.

ALL-BL'ASTING, adjective Blasting all; defaming or destroying all.

ALL-BOUN'TEOUS,

ALL-BOUN'TIFUL, adjective Perfectly bountiful; of infinite bounty.

ALL-CHA'NGING, adjective Perpetually changing.

ALL-CHEE'RING, adjective That cheers all; that gives gaiety or cheerfulness to all.

ALL-COMM'ANDING, adjective Having command or sovereignty over all.

ALL-COMPLY'ING, adjective Complying in every respect.

ALL-COMPO'SING, adjective That makes all tranquil or peaceful.

ALL-COMPREHEN'SIVE, adjective Comprehending all things.

ALL-CONCE'ALING, adjective Hiding or concealing all.

ALL-CON'QUERING, adjective That subdues all.

ALL-CON'SCIOUS, adjective Conscious of all; all-knowing.

ALL-CONSTRA'INING, adjective Constraining all

ALL-CONSU'MING, adjective That consumes or devours all.

ALL-DA'RING, adjective Daring to attempt every thing.

ALL-DESTROY'ING, adjective Destroying every thing.

ALL-DEV'ASTATING, adjective Wasting every thing.

ALL-DEVOUR'ING, a Eating or consuming all.

ALL-DIM'MING, adjective Obscuring every thing.

ALL-DISCOV'ERING, adjective Discovering or disclosing every thing.

ALL-DISGRA'CED, adjective Completely disgraced.

ALL-DISPENS'ING, adjective Dispensing all things; affording dispensation or permission.

ALL-DIVI'NE, adjective Supremely excellent.

ALL-DIVI'NING, adjective Foretelling all things.

ALL-DREAD'ED, adjective Dreaded by all.

ALL-EFFI'CIENT, adjective Of perfect or unlimited efficacy or efficiency.

ALL-EL'OQUENT, adjective Eloquent in the highest degree.

ALL-EMBRA'CING, adjective Embracing all things.

ALL-END'ING, adjective Putting an end to all things.

ALL-ENLI'GHTENING, adjective Enlightening all things.

ALL-ENRA'GED, adjective Highly enraged.

ALL-FLA'MING, adjective Flaming in all directions.

ALL-FOOL'S-DAY, noun The first of April.

ALL-FORGIV'ING, adjective Forgiving or pardoning all.

ALL-FOURS, noun [all and four.]

A game at cards, played by two or four persons; so called from the possession of the four honors, by one person, who is then said to have all fours.

To go on all fours is to move or walk on four legs, or on the two legs and two arms.

ALL-GIV'ER, noun The giver of all things.

ALL-GOOD', adjective Completely good.

ALL-GOOD, noun The popular name of the plant Good-Henry, or English Mercury, Chenopodium bonus Henricus.

ALL-GRA'CIOUS, adjective Perfectly gracious.

ALL-GUI'DING, adjective Guiding or conducting all things.

ALL-HA'IL, exclamation

All health; a phrase of salutation, expressing a wish of all health or safety to the person addressed.

ALL-HAL'LOW, or ALL-HALLOWS, n.

ALL-HALLOW-TIDE, noun The time near All Saints, or November first.

ALL-HAL'LOW, or ALL-HALLOWS noun

All Saints day, the first of November; a feast dedicated to all the saints in general

ALL-HAP'PY, adjective Completely happy.

ALL-HE'AL, noun The popular name of several plants.

ALL-HE'ALING, adjective Healing all things.

ALL-HELP'ING, adjective Assisting all

ALL-HI'DING, adjective Concealing all things.

ALL-HON'ORED, adjective Honored by all.

ALL-HURT'ING, adjective Hurting all things.

ALL-I'DOLIZING, adjective Worshiping any thing.

ALL-IM'ITATING, adjective Imitating every thing.

ALL-INFORM'ING, adjective Imitating every thing.

ALL-IN'TERESTING, adjective Interesting in the highest degree.

ALL-INTER'PRETING, adjective Explaining all things.

ALL-JUDG'ING, adjective Judging all; possessing the sovereign right of judging.

ALL-JUST; , adjective Perfectly just.

ALL-KI'ND, adjective Perfectly kind or benevolent.

ALL-KNO'WING, adjective Having all knowledge; omniscient.

ALL-LI'CENSED, adjective Licensed to every thing.

ALL-LOV'ING, adjective Of infinite love.

ALL-MA'KING, adjective Making or creating all; omnific.

ALL-MATU'RING, adjective Maturing all things.

ALL-MER'CIFUL, adjective Of perfect mercy or compassion.

ALL-MUR'DERING, adjective Killing or destroying every thing.

ALL-OBE'DIENT, adjective Entirely obedient.

ALL-OBEY'ING, adjective [See Obey.] Receiving obedience from all.

ALL-OBLIV'IOUS, adjective Causing total oblivion.

ALL-OBSCU'RING, adjective Obscuring every thing.

ALL-PA'TIENT, adjective Enduring every thing without murmurs.

ALL-PEN'ETRATING, adjective Penetrating every thing.

ALL-PER'FECT, adjective Completely perfect; having all perfection.

ALL-PER'FECTNESS, noun The perfection of the whole; entire perfection.

ALL-PIER'CING, adjective Piercing every thing.

ALL-POW'ERFUL, adjective Almighty; omnipotent.

ALL-PRA'ISED, adjective Praised by all.

ALL-RU'LING, adjective Governing all things.

ALL-SAGA'CIOUS, adjective Having all sagacity; of perfect discernment.

ALL-SAINTS-DAY, noun The first day of November, called also all hallows; a feast in honor of all the saints.

ALL-SANC'TIFYING, adjective Sanctifying the whole.

ALL-SA'VING, adjective Saving all.

ALL-SEARCH'ING, adjective Pervading and searching every thing.

ALL-SEE'ING, adjective Seeing every thing.

ALL-SEE'R, noun One that sees every thing.

ALL-SHA'KING, adjective Shaking all things.

ALL-SHUN'NED, adjective Shunned by all.

ALL-SOULS-DAY, noun The second day of November; a feast or solemnity held by the church of Rome, to supplicate for the souls of the faithful deceased.

ALL'-SPICE, noun The berry of the pimento, a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic.

ALL-SUFFI'CIENCY, noun Complete or infinite ability.

ALL-SUFFI'CIENT, adjective Sufficient to every thing; infinitely able.

ALL-SUFFI'CIENT, noun The all-sufficient Being; God.

ALL-SURROUND'ING, adjective Encompassing the whole.

ALL-SURVEY'ING, noun [See Survey.] Surveying every thing.

ALL-SUSTA'INING, adjective Upholding all things.

ALL-TELL'ING, adjective Telling or divulging every thing.

ALL-TRI'UMPHING, adjective Triumphant every where or over all.

ALL-WATCH'ED, adjective Watched throughout.

ALL-WI'SE, adjective Possessed of infinite wisdom.

ALL-WIT'TED, adjective Having all kinds of wit.

ALL-WOR'SHIPED, adjective Worshiped or adored by all.

ALL-WOR'THY, adjective Of infinite worth; of the highest worth.

ALLIGA'TOR-PEAR, noun A west India fruit, resembling a pear in shape, from one to two pounds in weight. It contains within its rind a yellow butyraceous substance, which, when the fruit is perfectly ripe, constitutes an agreeable food.

ALLOW-ABLENESS, noun The quality of being allowable; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition, or impropriety.

ALMANACK-MAKER, noun A maker of almanacks.

ALMOND-FURNACE, among refiners, is a furnace in which the slags of litharge, left in refining silver, are reduced to lead, by the help of charcoal; that is, according to modern chimistry, in which the oxyd of lead is deoxydized, and the metal revived.

ALMOND-TREE, noun The tree which produces the almond. The leaves and flowers resemble those of the peach, but the fruit is longer and more compressed, the green coat is thinner and drier when ripe, and the shell is not so rugged.

ALMOND-WILLOW, noun A tree with leaves of a light green on both sides.

'ALMS-DEED, noun An act of charity; a charitable gift.

'ALMS-FOLK, noun Persons supporting other by alms. [Not used.]

'ALMS-GIVER, noun One who gives to the poor.

'ALMS-GIVING, noun The bestowment of charity.

'ALMS-HOUSE, noun A house appropriated for the use of the poor, who are supported by the public.

'ALMS-MEN,

'ALMS-PEOPLE, noun Persons supported by charity or by public provision.

AL'OES-WOOD, noun [See Agallochum.]

AL'TAR-CLOTH, noun A cloth to lay upon an altar in churches.

AL'TAR-PIECE, noun A painting placed over the altar in a church.

AL'TARIST, or AL'TAR-THANE, noun In old laws, an appellation given to the priest to whom the altarage belonged; also a chaplain.

AL'TAR-WISE, adverb Placed in the manner of an altar.

AL'TO-OCTA'VO. An octave higher.

AL'TO-RELIE'VO. High relief, in sculpture, is the projection of a figure half or more, without being entirely detached.

AL'TO-RIPIE'NO. The tenor of the great chorus, which sings and plays only in particular places.

AL'TO-VIOLA. A small tenor viol.

AL'TO-VIOLINO. A small tenor violin.

ALUM-EARTH, noun A massive mineral, of a blackish brown color, a dull luster, and soft consistence.

ALUM-SLATE, noun A mineral of two species, common and glossy.

ALUM-STONE, noun The siliceous subsulphate of alumina and potash.

AM'BER-DRINK, noun A drink resembling amber in color.

AM'BER-DROPPING, adjective Dropping amber.

CHAMBER-FELLOW, AMBER-FELLOW, noun One who sleeps in the same apartment.

AM'BER-SEED, noun Musk-seed, resembling millet. It is of a bitterish taste, and brought from Egypt and the West Indies.

AM'BER-TREE, noun The English name of a species of Anthospermum, a shrub, with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

AN'CHOR-GROUND, noun Ground suitable for anchoring.

AN'CHOR-HOLD, noun The hold or fastness of an anchor; security.

AN'CHOR-SMITH, noun The maker or forger of anchors, or one whose occupation is to make anchors.

ANCHO'VY-PEAR, noun A fruit of Jamaica, constituting the genus Grias. It is large, contains a stone, and is esculent.

ANGEL-AGE, noun The existence or state of angels.

AN'GEL-FISH, noun A species of shark, the squalus squatina. It is from six to eight feet long, with a large head, teeth broad at the base, but slender and sharp above, disposed in five rows, all around the jaws. The fish takes its name from its pectoral fins, which are very large and extend horizontally, like wings when spread. This fish connects the genus of rays, with that of sharks, partaking of the characters of both; but it differs from both in this, that its mouth is placed at the extremity of the head.

AN'GEL-LIKE, adjective Resembling or having the manners of angels.

AN'GEL-SHOT, noun Chain-shot, being two halves of a cannon ball fastened to the ends of a chain.

AN'GEL-WINGED, adjective Winged like angels.

AN'GEL-WORSHIP, noun The worshipping of angels.

AN'GLE-ROD, noun The rod or pole to which a line and hook are fastened.

ANGLO-DA'NISH, adjective Pertaining to the English Danes, or the Danes who settled in England.

ANGLO-NORM'AN, a Pertaining to the English Normans.

ANGLO-SAX'ON, adjective Pertaining to the Saxons, who settled in England, or English Saxons.

ANGLO-SAX'ON, noun A kind of pear; also the language of the English Saxons.

ANGO'LA-PEA or PIGEON-PEA. A species of Cytisus.

ANIMAL-FLOWER, noun In zoology, sea-anemone, sea-nettle or urtica marina, the name of several species of animals belonging to the genus actinia. They are called sea-nettle from their supposed property of stinging, and sea-anemone from the resemblance of their claws or tentacles, to the petals of some flowers. These are disposed in regular circles, and tinged with various bright colors. Some of these animals are hemispherical, others cylindrical; others are shaped like a fig. some are stiff and gelatinous; others, fleshy and muscular; but all can alter their figure by extending their claws in search of food. These animals can move slowly, but are generally fixed by one end to rocks or stones in the sand. On the other extremity, is the mouth in the center, which is surrounded by rows of fleshy claws and capable of great dilatation. They are very voracious, and will swallow a muscle, or crab, as large as a hen's egg.

The term Animal Flower, is also extended to many other marine animals, from their resemblance to flowers. They belong to the Holothurias, which with the Actinias, were ranged under the Molluseas, by Linne; and to the Tubularias and Hydras, which were classed with the Zoophytes. They are all arranged under Zoophytes, by Cuvier.

ANK'LE-BONE, noun The bone of the ankle.

ANOTH'ER-GAINES, adverb Of another kind. obsolete

ANOTH'ER-GATES, adverb Of another sort. obsolete

ANOTH'ER-GUISE, adjective Of a different kind; different. This is a vulgar word, and usually contracted into other guess.

'ANSWER-JOBBER, noun One who makes a business of writing answers.

'ANT-BEAR or 'ANT-EATER, noun A quadruped that feeds upon ants. This animal has no teeth, but a snout or muzzle, with a long cylindrical tongue. the body is covered with long hair. There are several species, constituting the genus, myrmecophaga, ant eaters.

'ANT-BEAR or 'ANT-EATER, noun A quadruped that feeds upon ants. This animal has no teeth, but a snout or muzzle, with a long cylindrical tongue. the body is covered with long hair. There are several species, constituting the genus, myrmecophaga, ant eaters.

'ANT-EGGS, noun Little white balls found in the hillocks of ants, usually supposed to be their eggs, but found on examination to be the young brood, in their first state. They are vermicules, wrapped in a film, composed of a silky substance spun like a spider's web.

'ANT-HILL, noun A little tumulus or hillock, formed by ants, for their habitation.

AN'THEM-WISE, adverb In the manner of an anthem; alternately.

AN'TI-CHAMBER, noun Dr. Johnson prefers ante-chamber, which see. But ante and anti are the same word in different dialects; and have the same radical signification. [See Ante.]

AN'TI-CHRIST, noun [Gr. against, and Christ.]

A great adversary of Christ; the man of sin; described

1 John 2:18. 2 Thessalonians 2:1. Revelation 9:1. Protestants generally suppose this adversary to be the Papal power; and some divines believe that, in a more general sense, the word extends to any persons who deny Christ or oppose the fundamental doctrines of christianity.

ANY-WISE is sometimes used adverbially, but the two words may be separated, and used with a preposition, in any wise.

APOSTLE-SHIP, noun The office or dignity of an apostle.

AP'PLE-GRAFT, noun A scion of the appletree engrafted.

AP'PLE-HARVEST, noun The gathering of apples, or the time of gathering.

AP'PLE-PIE, noun a pie made of apples stewed or baked, inclosed in paste, or covered with paste, as in England.

AP'PLE-SAUCE, noun A sauce made of stewed apples.

AP'PLE-TART, noun A tart made of apples baked on paste.

AP'PLE-TREE, noun A tree arranged by Linne under the genus pyrus. The fruit of this tree is indefinitely various. The crab apple is supposed to be the original kind, from which all others have sprung. New varieties are springing annually from the seeds.

AP'PLE-WOMAN, noun A woman who sells apples and other fruit.

AP'PLE-YARD, noun An orchard; an inclosure for apples.

AP'PLICATE-ORDINATE. A right line at right angles applied to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

A'PRON-MAN, noun A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.

'ARCHES-COURT, in England, so called from the church of St. Mary le bow (de arcubus, ) whose top is raised of stone pillars built archwise, where it was anciently held, is a court of appeal, in the ecclesiastical polity, the judge of which is called the dean of the arches. This court had jurisdiction over thirteen peculiar parishes in London, belonging to the archbishop of Cantebury; but the office of dean of the arches being united with that of the archbishop's principal office, the dean now receives and determines appeals from the sentence of all inferior courts within the province; and from him lies an appeal to the king in chancery. This and all the principal spiritual courts are now held at Doctors' Commons.

'ARGENT-HORNED, adjective Silver horned.

ARGO-NAVIS, The ship Argo, is a constellation in the southern hemisphere, whose stars, in the British catalogue, are sixty-four.

ARGUS-SHELL, noun A species of porcelain-shell, beautifully variegated with spots, resembling, in some measure, a peacock's tail.

ARME-PUIS'SANT, adjective [See Puissant.] Powerful in arms.

'ARMOR-BEARER, noun One who carries the armor of another.

ARMS-END, noun At the end of the arms; at a good distance; a phrase taken from boxers or wrestlers.

AR'ROW-GRASS, noun A plant or genus of plants; the Triglochin.

AR'ROW-HEAD, noun

1. The head of an arrow.

2. Sagittaria; a genus of aquatic plants, so called from the resemblance of the leaves to the point of an arrow.

AR'ROW-ROOT, noun

1. The Maranta; a genus of plants, natives of the Indies. The Indians are said to employ the roots of the arundinacea, in extracting the virus of poisoned arrows; whence the name. There are several species. From the root of the arundinacea, or starch-plant, is obtained the arrow-root of the shops.

2. The starch of the maranta, or arrow-root a nutritive medicinal food.

'ARSE-SMART, noun The vulgar name of a species of polygonum, or knot-grass.

'ARTS-MAN, noun A learned man. obsolete

ASA-DULCIS, The same as benzoin.

ASA-FET'IDA, noun [Asa, gum, and Latin fatidus, fetid.]

A fetid gum-resin, from the East Indies. It is the concrete juice of a large unbelliferous plant, much used in Medicine, as an antispasmodic.

ASCENSION-DAY, noun A festival of some christian churches, held ten days or on the Thursday but one, before Whitsuntide, which is called Holy Thursday, in commemoration of our Savior's ascension into heaven, after his resurrection.

Ascensional difference is the difference between the right and oblique ascension of the same point on the surface of the sphere.

ASH-COLORED, adjective Of a color between brown and gray.

'ASS-HEAD, noun [ass and head.] One dull, like the ass; one slow of apprehension; a blockhead.

'ASS-LIKE, adjective Resembling an ass.

ASSAY-BALANCE, noun A balance for the trial of the weight and purity of metals.

ASSAY-MASTER, noun An assayer; an officer appointed to try the weight and fineness of the precious metals.

ASSEM'BLY-ROOM, noun a room in which persons assemble.

ASTRO-THEOL'OGY, noun [Latin astrum, a star, and theologia, divinity.]

Theology founded on the observation of the celestial bodies.

AT'OM-LIKE, adjective Resembling atoms.

AUD'IT-HOUSE, noun An appendage to a cathedral, in which the business belonging to it is transacted.

AUG'ER-HOLE, noun A hole made by an auger.

AWE-COMMAND'ING, adjective Striking or influencing by awe.

AWE-INSPI'RING, adjective Impressing with awe.

AX'LE-TREE, n. [See Axis.]

AZURE-STONE, AZURITE, noun Another name of the lazulite.

BA'BY-HOUSE, noun A place for children's dolls and babies.

BADG'ER-LEGGED, adjective Having legs like a badger. Johnson says having legs of unequal length; but, qu.short thick legs.

BA'KER-FOOT, noun An ill-shaped or distorted foot.

BA'KER-LEGGED, adjective One who has crooked legs, or legs that bend inward at the knees.

BAL'ANCE-REEF, noun A reef band that crosses a sail diagonally, used to contract it in a storm.

BALD'A-CHIN,

BALD'AQUIN, noun In architecture, a building in form of a canopy, supported by columns, and often used as a covering to insulated altars; sometimes used for a shell over a door.

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BAL'LAD-MAKER, noun A maker or composer of ballads.

BAL'LAD-MONGER, noun [See Monger] A dealer in writing ballads.

BAL'LAD-SINGER, noun One whose employment is to sing ballads.

BAL'LAD-STYLE, noun The air or manner of a ballad.

BAL'LAD-TUNE, noun The tune of a ballad.

BAL'LAD-WRITER, noun A composer of ballads.

BAL'LOT-BOX, noun A box for receiving ballots.

BAL'SAM-SWEATING, adjective Yielding balsam.

BALSAM'I-CAL, adjective Having the qualities of balsam; stimulating; unctuous; soft; mitigating; mild.

BALSAM'IC, noun A warm, stimulating, demulcent medicine, of a smooth and oily consistence.

BAND'Y-LEGGED, adjective Having crooked legs.

BANK-BILL

BANK-NOTE, noun A promissory note, issued by a banking company, signed by their President and countersigned by the Cashier, payable to the bearer in gold or silver at the bank, on demand. If payable to order, the note is called a post-note.

BANK-NOTE, n. A promissory note, issued by a banking company, signed by their President and countersigned by the Cashier, payable to the bearer in gold or silver at the bank, on demand. If payable to order, the note is called a post-note.

BANK-STOCK, noun A share or shares in the capital stock of a bank.

BANK'RUPT-LAW, noun A law, which, upon a bankrupt's surrendering all his property to commissioners for the benefit of his creditors, discharges him from the payment of his debts, and all liability to arrest or suit for the same, and secures his future acquired property from a liability to the payment of his past debts.

BANKRUPT-SYSTEM, noun A system of laws and legal proceedings in regard to bankrupts and their property.

BAN'QUET-HOUSE, noun A house where entertainments are made. Song of Solomon 2:4. Daniel 5:1.

BAN'QUETING-HOUSE

BAN'QUETING-ROOM, noun A saloon, or spacious hall for public entertainments.

BAN'QUETING-ROOM, n. A saloon, or spacious hall for public entertainments.

BARBA'DOES-CHERRY, noun The Malpighia, a tree growing in the W. Indies, fifteen feet high and producing a pleasant tart fruit.

BARBA'DOES TAR, noun A mineral fluid, of the nature of the thicker fluid bitumens, of a nauseous bitterish taste, a very strong disagreeable smell, viscid, of a brown, black or reddish color; it easily melts, and burns with much smoke, but is not soluble in ardent spirits. It contains a portion of acid of amber. It trickles down the sides of mountains in some parts of America, and sometimes is found on the surface of the waters. It is recommended in coughs and disorders of the breast and lungs.

B'ARBER-CHIRURGEON, noun One who joins the practice of surgery with that of a barber; a practice now unusual. A low practitioner of surgery.

B'ARBER-MONGER, noun A man who frequents the barber's shop, or prides himself in being dressed by a barber; a fop.

B'ARGE-COUPLES, noun In architecture, a beam mortised into another, to strengthen the building.

B'ARGE-COURSE, noun In bricklaying, a part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in building where there is a gable, or kirkinhead.

B'ARK-BARED, adjective Stripped of the bark.

B'ARK-BOUND, adjective Having the bark too firm or close, as with trees. This disease is cured by slitting the bark.

B'ARK-GALLED, adjective Having the bark galled, as with thorns. This defect is cured by binding on clay.

B'ARLEY-BRAKE, noun A rural play; a trial of swiftness.

B'ARLEY-BROTH, noun A low word for strong beer.

B'ARLEY-CORN, noun [See Corn.] A grain of barley; ; the third part of an inch in length; hence originated our measure of length.

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B'ARLEY-MOW, noun A mow of barley, or the place where barley is deposited.

B'ARLEY-SUGAR, noun Sugar boiled till it is brittle, formerly with a decoction of barley.

B'ARLEY-WATER, noun A decoction of barley, which is reputed soft and lubricating, and much used in medicine.

French barley and pearl barley are used for making decoctions. These are made by separating the grain from its coat. The pearl barley is reduced to the size of a small shot.

BAR'RACK-MASTER, noun The officer who superintends the barracks of soldiers.

BAR'REL-BELLIED, adjective [See Belly.] Having a large belly.

BARYTO-CAL'CITE, noun [baryte and calx. See Calx.]

A mixture of carbonate of lime with sulphate of baryte, of a dark or light gray color, of various forms.

BA'SE-BORN, adjective [base and born.] Born out of wedlock.

2. Born of low parentage.

3. Vile; mean.

BA'SE-COURT, noun [See Court.]

The back yard, opposed to the chief court in front of a house; the farm yard.

BA'SE-MINDED, adjective Of a low spirit or mind; mean.

BA'SE-MINDEDNESS, noun Meanness of spirit.

BA'SE-STRING, noun The lowest note.

BA'SE-VIOL, noun [See Viol.] A musical instrument, used for playing the base or gravest part.

BAS'IL-WEED, noun Wild basil, a plant of the genus Clinopodium.

B'ASKET-FISH, noun A species of sea-star, or star-fish, of the genus Asterias, and otherwise called the Magellanic star-fish. It has five rays issuing from an angular body, and dividing into innumerable branches. These when extended form a circle of three feet diameter. [See Asterias.]

B'ASKET-HILT, noun [See Hilt.] A hilt which covers the hand, and defends it from injury, as of a sword.

B'ASKET-HILTED, adjective Having a hilt of basket-work.

B'ASKET-SALT, noun Salt made from salt-springs, which is purer, whiter and finer, than common brine salt.

B'ASKET-WOMAN, noun A woman who carries a basket, to and from market.

B'ASKING-SHARK, noun The sun-fish of the Irish; a species of squalus or shark. This fish is from three to twelve yards in length, or even longer. The upper jaw is much longer than the lower one; the tail is large and the upper part much longer than the lower; the skin is rough, of a deep leaden color on the back, and white on the belly. The fish weighs more than a thousand pounds, and affords a great quantity of oil, which is used for lamps, and to cure bruises, burns, and rheumatic complaints. It is viviparous, and frequents the northern seas. [See Squalus.]

BASS-RELIE'F, noun In English, base-relief. [See Lift and Relief.]

Sculpture, whose figures do not stand out far from the ground or plane on which they are formed. When figures do not protuberate so as to exhibit the entire body, they are said to be done in relief; and when they are low, flat or little raised from the plane,

the work is said to be in low relief. When the figures are so raised as to be well distinguished, they are said to be bold, strong, or high, alto relievo. [See Relief.]

BASS-VIOL, noun [See Base-viol]

BASSO-CONCERTANTE, in music, is the base of the little chorus, or that which plays throughout the whole piece.

BASSO-CONTINUO, thorough base, which see under base.

BASSO-RELIEVO. [See Bass-relief.]

BASSO-REPIENO, is the base of the grand chorus, which plays only occasionally, or in particular parts.

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BASSO-VIOLINO, is the base of the base-viol.

BATE-BREEDING, adjective Breeding strife. [Not used.]

B'ATH-ROOM, noun An apartment for bathing.

BA'THING-TUB, noun A vessel for bathing, usually made either of wood or tin. In the Royal Library at Paris, I saw a bathing-tub of porphyry, of beautiful form and exquisite workmanship.

BAT'TERING-RAM, noun In antiquity, a military engine used to beat down the walls of besieged places. It was a large beam, with a head of iron somewhat resembling the head of a ram, whence its name. It was suspended by ropes in the middle to a beam which was supported by posts, and balanced so as to swing backwards and forwards, and was impelled by men against the wall. It was sometimes mounted on wheels.

BATTLE-ARRA'Y, noun [battle and array.] Array or order of battle; the disposition of forces preparatory to a battle.

BAT'TLE-AX

BAT'TLE-AXE, noun An ax anciently used as a weapon of war. It has been used till of late years by the highlanders in Scotland; and is still used by the city guards in Edinburg, in quelling mobs, etc.

BAT'TLE-AXE, n. An ax anciently used as a weapon of war. It has been used till of late years by the highlanders in Scotland; and is still used by the city guards in Edinburg, in quelling mobs, &c.

BAT'TLE-DOOR, noun bat'tl-dore. An instrument of play, with a handle and a flat board or palm, used to strike a ball or shuttle-cock; a racket.

1. A child's horn book. [Not in use in U.S.]

BAWD'Y-HOUSE, adjective A house of lewdness and prostitution.

BAY-SALT, is salt which crystallizes or receives its consistence from the heat of the sun or action of the air. It forms in pits or basins, and from this circumstance receives its denomination. It appears first in a slight incrustation upon the surface of the water in which salt is dissolved. This crust thickens and hardens, till the crystallization is perfected, which takes place, in eight, ten or fifteen days.

BAY-WINDOW, noun A window jutting out from the wall, as in shops.

BAY-YARN, noun A denomination sometimes used promiscuously with woolen yard.

BE'AD-MAKER, noun One who makes beads. In French, paternostrier is one who makes, strings, and sells beads. In Paris are three companies of paternostriers; one that works in glass or crystal; one, in wood and horn; a third, in amber, coral, etc.

BE'AD-PROOF, adjective Spirit is bead-proof when, after being shaken, a crown of bubbles will stand, for some time after, on the surface, manifesting a certain standard of strength.

BE'AD-ROLL, noun Among Catholics, a list or catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls, they are to repeat a certain number of prayers, which they count by their beads.

BE'AD-TREE, noun The azederach, a species of Melia, a native of the Indies, growing about 20 feet high, adorned with large pinnated or winged leaves, and clusters of pentapetalous flowers.

BE'ADS-MAN, noun A man employed in praying, generally in praying for another.

BE'ADS-WOMAN, noun A praying woman; a woman who resides in an alms-house.

BE'AM-BIRD, noun In Yorkshire, England, the petty chaps, a species of Motacilla; called in Dorsetshire, the hay-bird.

The spotted fly-catcher, a species of Muscicapa.

BE'AM-TREE, noun A species of wild service.

The Crataegus Aria.

BEAM, noun A ray of light, emitted from the sun, or other luminous body.

BEAM, verb transitive To send forth; to emit.

BEAM, verb intransitive To emit rays of light, or beams; to shine.

He beam'd, the day star of the rising age.

BE'AN-CAPER, noun A plant, a species of zygophyllum, a native of warm climates.

BE'AN-COD, noun A small fishing vessel or pilot boat, used in the rivers of Portugal. It is sharp forward, having its stem bent above into a great curve, and plated with iron.

BE'AN-FED, adjective Fed with beans.

BE'AN-FLY, noun A beautiful fly, of a pale purple color, found on bean flowers, produced from a maggot called mida.

BE'AN-GOOSE, noun A species of Anas; a migratory bird, which arrives in England in autumn, and retires to the north in summer. It is so named, from the likeness of the nail of the bill to a horse-bean.

Bean-tree of America, a name given to the Erythrina.

Kidney-Bean-tree, a name given to the Glycine.

Binding-bean tree, a name given to the Mimosa.

Bean-trefoil, the Cytisus.

BEAR-BAITING, noun The sport of baiting bears with dogs.

BEAR-BERRY, noun A plant, a species of Arbutus.

BEAR-BIND, noun A species of bind weed, or Convolvulus.

BEAR-CLOTH

BEAR-FLY, An insect.

BEAR'S FOOT, noun A plant, a species of hellebore.

BEAR-FLY, An insect.

BEAR-GARDEN, noun A place where bears are kept for diversion.

BEAR-GARDEN, adjective Rude; turbulent; as bear-garden sport.

BEAR-WHELP, noun The whelp of a bear.

BEAR'S WORT, noun A plant.

BEARING-CLOTH, noun A cloth in which a new born child is covered when carried to church to be baptized.

BEAR, noun [Latin ferus, fera, or to barbarus.]

1. A wild quadruped, of the genus Ursus. The marks of the genus are, six fore teeth in the upper jaw, alternately hollow on the inside; and six in the under jaw, the two lateral ones lobated; the dog teeth are solitary and conical; the eyes have a nictitating membrane, and the nose is prominent.

The arctos, or black bear, has his body covered with long shaggy hair. Some are found in Tartary, of a pure white color. The polar, or white bear, has a long head and neck; short, round ears; the hair long, soft, and white, tinged in some parts with yellow. He grows to a great size, the skins of some being 13 feet long. This bear lives in cold climates only, and frequently swims from one isle of ice to another.

2. The name of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called the greater and lesser bear. In the tail of the lesser bear is the pole star.

BEAR'S-BREECH, noun Brank-ursine or Acanthus, a genus of plants.

BEAR'S EAR, noun The trivial name of primula auricula.

BEAR'S EAR SANICLE, noun A species of Cortusa.

BE'ATER-UP, noun One who beats for game; a sportsman's term.

BEAU-MONDE, noun bomond'. The fashionable world; people of fashion and gaiety.

BEAU'TY-SPOT, noun bu'ty-spot. A patch; a foil, a spot placed on the face to heighten beauty.

BEAU'TY-WANING, adjective Declining in beauty.

BECAFI-CO, noun [See Beak.] A fig-pecker; a bird like a nightingale which feeds on figs and grapes.

BED'-CLOTHES, noun plural [bed and clothes.]

Blankets, or coverlets, etc., for beds.

BED-HANGINGS, noun Curtains.

BEE'-BREAD, noun [bee and bread.] The pollen of flowers collected by bees, as food for their young. [See Bee.]

BEE'-EATER, noun [bee and eat.] A bird that feeds on bees. There are several species included in the genus merops, of which the apiaster of Europe is remarkable for the brilliancy of its plumage.

BEE'-FLOWER, noun [bee and flower.] A plant; a species of Ophrys or twyblade, whose flowers represent singular figures of bees, flies and other insects.

BEE'-GARDEN, noun [bee and garden.] A garden, or inclosure to set bee-hives in.

BEE'-GLUE, noun [bee and glue.] A soft, unctuous matter with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; called also propolis.

BEE'-HIVE, noun [bee and hive.] A case, box, or other hollow vessel, which serves as a habitation for bees. Hives are made of various materials, as of boards, the hollow trunk of a tree, and withes of straw, or of glass.

BEE'-MASTER, noun [bee and master.] One who keeps bees.

BEE'CH-COAL, noun [beech and coal.] Charcoal from beech wood.

BEE'CH-OIL, noun [beech and oil.] Oil expressed from the mast or nuts of the beech-tree. It is used in Picardy, and in other parts of France, instead of butter; but is said to occasion heaviness and pains in the stomach.

BEE'CH-TREE, noun [beech and tree.] The beech.

BEE'F-EATER, noun [beef and eat.] One that eats beef.

1. A yeoman of the guards, in England.

2. The Buphaga, an African bird that feeds on the larvas which nestle under the hides of oxen.

3. In popular use, a stout fleshy man.

BEE'F-STEAK, noun [beef and steak.] A steak of slice of beef for broiling.

BEE'F-WITTED, adjective [beef and wit.] Dull in intellects; stupid; heavy-headed.

BEE'R-BARREL, noun A barrel for holding beer.

BEE'R-HOUSE, noun A house where malt liquors are sold; an ale house.

BEE'T-RADISH, noun A kind of beet, used for salad.

BEET-RAVE

BEE'TLE, noun

1. A heavy mallet or wooden hammer, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.; called also a stamper, or rammer.

2. In zoology, a genus of insects, the scarabaeus, of many species. The generic characters are, clavated antennae, fissile longitudinally, legs frequently dentated, and wings which have hard cases, or sheaths. The bones of these insects are placed externally, and their muscles within. They are of different sizes, from that of a pin's head, to that of a man's fist. Some are produced in a month, and go through their existence in a year; in others, four years are required to produce them, and they live as winged insects a year more. They have various names, as the may-bug, the dorr-beetle, the cock-chaffer, the tumble-dung, the elephant-beetle, etc. The latter, found in South America, is the largest species, being four inches long.

BEE'TLE, verb intransitive bee'tl. To jut; to be prominent; to hang or extend out; as, a cliff that beetles over its base.

BEE'TLE-BROW, noun [beetle and brow.] A prominent brow.

BEE'TLE-BROWED, adjective Having prominent brows.

BEE'TLE-HEAD, noun [beetle and head.] A stupid fellow.

BEE'TLE-HEADED, a Having a head like a beetle; dull; stupid.

BEE'TLE-STOCK, noun [beetle and stock.] The handle of a beetle.

BEFO'RE-TIME, adverb [before and time.] Formerly; of old time. 1 Samuel 9:1. Joshua 20:1.

BEG'GAR-MAID, noun A maid that is a beggar.

BEG'GAR-MAN, noun A man that is a beggar.

BEG'GAR-WOMAN, noun A female beggar.

BELL'-FLOWER, noun [bell and flower.] A genus of plants, so named from the shape of the corol or flower which resembles a bell, Latin Campanula, a genus of monogynian pentanders, comprehending many species.

BELL'-FOUNDER, noun [bell and founder.] A man whose occupation is to found or cast bells.

BELL'-MAN, noun [bell man.] A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets.

BELL'-METAL, noun [bell and metal] A mixture of copper and tin, in the proportion of about ten parts of copper to one of tin, or according to Thomson, three parts to one, and usually a small portion of brass or zink; used for making bells.

BELL'-PEPPER, noun [bell and pepper.] A name of the Guinea pepper, a species of Capsicum. This is the red pepper of the gardens, and most proper for pickling.

BELL'-RINGER, noun One whose business is to ring a church or other bell.

BELL'-SHAPED, adjective [bell and shape.] Having the form of a bell.

BELL'-WETHER, noun [bell and wether.] A wether or sheep which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

BELL'-WORT, noun A plant, the Uvularia.

BELLES-LETTERS, noun plural bel' letter, or anglicized, bell-letters. Polite literature; a word of very vague signification. It includes poetry and oratory; but authors are not agreed to what particular branches of learning the term should be restricted.

BEL'LOWS-FISH, noun The trumpet-fish, about four inches long, with a long snout; whence its name.

BEL'LY-ACHE, noun [belly and ache.] Pain in the bowels; the colic.

BEL'LY-ACHE BUSH or WEED, A species of Jatropha.

BEL'LY-BAND, noun A band that encompasses the belly of a horse, and fastens the saddle; a girth.

BEL'LY-BOUND, adjective Diseased in the belly, so as to be costive, and shrunk in the belly.

BEL'LY-CHEER, noun Good cheer, [Not used.]

BEL'LY-FRETTING, noun The chafing of a horse's belly, with a fore girt.

1. A violent pain in a horse's belly, caused by worms.

BEL'LY-GOD, noun [belly and god.] A glutton; one who makes a god of his belly; that is, whose great business or pleasure is to gratify his appetite.

BEL'LY-PINCHED, adjective [See Pinch.] Starved; pinched with hunger.

BEL'LY ROLL, noun [See Roll.] A roller protuberant in the middle, to roll land between ridges, or in hollows.

BEL'LY-SLAVE, noun A slave to the appetite.

BEL'LY-TIMBER, noun [See Timber.[ Food; that which supports the belly.

BEL'LY-WORM, noun [See Worm.] A worm that breeds in the belly or stomach.

BENT'ING-TIME, noun The time when pigeons feed on bents, before peas are ripe.

BER'RY-BEARING, adjective Producing berries.

BER'YL-CRYSTAL, noun A species of imperfect crystal, of a very pure, clear, and equal texture. It is always of the figure of a long and slender column, irregularly hexangular, and tapering at the top. Its color is a pale brown, of a fine transparency.

BEST-TEM'PERED, adjective Having the most kind or mild temper.

BETTERING-HOUSE, noun A house for the reformation of offenders.

BI'AS-DRAWING, noun Partiality. [Not used.]

BIB'BLE-BABBLE, noun Idle talk; prating to no purpose. [A low word, and not used.]

BIE'R-BALK, noun The church road for burials. [Not used in America.]

BILGE-PUMP, noun A burr-pump; a pump to draw the bilge-water from a ship.

BILGE-WATER, noun Water which enters a ship, and lies upon her bilge or bottom.

BILLET-DOUX, bil'le-doo. A love billet.

BILL'ET, noun A small stick of wood.

BILL'ET, verb transitive [from billet, a ticket.] To direct a soldier by a ticket or note where to lodge; hence, to quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

BIL'LOW-BEATEN, adjective Tossed by billows.

BI'ND-WEED, noun A genus of plants, called Convolvulus, comprehending many species, as the white, the blue, the

Syrian bind-weed etc. The black briony or Tamus is called black bind-weed; and the Smilax is called rough bind-weed

BIRD'-CAGE, noun [bird and cage.] A box or case with wires, small sticks, or wicker, forming open work, for keeping birds.

BIRD'-CALL, noun [bird and call.] A little stick, cleft at one end, in which is put a leaf of some plant for imitating the cry of birds. A laurel leaf counterfeits the voice of lapwings; a leek, that of nightingales; etc.

BIRD'-CATCHER, noun [bird and catch.] One whose employment is to catch birds; a fowler.

BIRD'-CATCHING, noun [bird and catch.] The art of taking birds or wild fowls, either for food, for pleasure, or for their destruction, when pernicious to the husbandman.

BIRD'-CHERRY, noun [bird and cherry.] A tree, a species of Prunus, called padus; there are other species called by the same name.

BIRD'-EYE

BIRD'-LIME, noun [bird and lime.] A viscous substance, usually made of the juice of holly-bark, extracted by boiling, mixed with a third-part of nut oil or thin grease, used to catch birds. For this purpose, the twigs of a bush are smeared over with this viscid substance.

BIRD'-LIMED, adjective Smeared with bird-lime; spread to ensnare.

BIRD'-MAN, noun [bird and man.] A fowler or bird-catcher.

BIRD'-PEPPER, noun [bird and pepper.] A species of Capsicum or Guinea-pepper; a shrubby plant, bearing a small oval fruit, more biting than the other sorts.

BIRD'ING-PIECE, noun [bird and piece.] A fowling-piece.

BIRD'-LIKE, adjective Resembling a bird.

BIRD'S-EYE, adjective [bird and eye.] Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; as a bird-eye landscape.

BIRDSFOOT-TREFOIL, noun A genus of plants, the Lotus, of several species.

BIT'TER-GOURD, noun [bitter and gourd.] A plant, a species of Cucumis, called Colocynthis, Colocynth, Coloquintada. The fruit is of the gourd kind, having a shell inclosing a bitter pulp, which is a very drastic purgative. It is brought from the Levant, and is the bitter apple of the shops.

BIT'TER-SALT, noun Epsom salt.

BIT'TER-SPAR, noun Rhombspar, a mineral that crystallizes in rhomboids. It is the crystallized variety of magnesian limestone.

BIT'TER-SWEET, noun [bitter and sweet.] A species of Solanum, a slender climbing plant, whose root, when chewed, produces first a bitter, then a sweet taste.

BIT'TER-WORT, noun [bitter and wort.] The plant called gentian, Gentiana, which has a remarkable bitter taste.

BLACK'-BIRD, noun [black and bird.] In England, the merula, a species of turdus, a singing bird with a fine note, but very loud. In America, this name is given to different birds, as to the gracula quiscula, or crow black-bird and to the oriolus phaeniceus, or red winged black-bird

BLACK-'BOOK, noun [black and book.] The Black Book of the Exchequer in England, is a book said to have been composed in 1175, by Gervais of Tilbury. It contains a description of the Court of Exchequer, its officers, their ranks and privileges, wages, perquisites and jurisdiction, with the revenues of the crown, in money, grain and cattle.

1. Any book which treats of necromancy.

2. A book compiled by order of the visitors of monasteries, under Henry VIII., containing a detailed account of the enormities practiced in religious houses, to blacken them and to hasten their dissolution.

BLACK'-BROWED, adjective [black and brow.] Having black eye-brows; gloomy; dismal; threatening; as a black-browed gust.

BLACK-BRY'ONY, noun [black and bryony.] A plant, the Tamus.

BLACK-CAP, noun [black and cap.] A bird, the Motacilla atricapilla, or mock-nightingale; so called from its black crown. It is common in Europe.

1. In cookery, an apple roasted till black, to be served up in a dish of boiled custard.

BLACK'-CATTLE, noun [black and cattle.] Cattle of the bovine genus, as bulls, oxen and cows. [English.]

BLACK-CHALK, noun A mineral of a bluish black color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate.

BLACK'-COCK, noun [black and cock.] A fowl, called also black-grous and black-game, the Tetrao tetrix of Linne.

BLACK'-EAGLE, noun [black and eagle.] In Scotland, a name given to the Falco fulvus, the white tailed eagle of Edwards.

BLACK'-EARTH, noun Mold; earth of a dark color.

BLACK'-FACED, adjective Having a black face.

BLACK'-FISH, noun [black and fish.] A fish in the Orontes, about twenty inches long, in shape resembling the sheat-fish. Its eyes are placed near the corners of its mouth on the edge of the lower jaw.

1. In the U. States, a fish caught on the rocky shores of New England.

BLACK-FOREST, noun [black and forest.] A forest in Germany, in Swabia; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest.

BLACK-FRIAR, noun Black-friars is a name given to the Dominican Order, called also Predicants and preaching friars; in France, Jacobins.

BLACK'-GUARD, noun [said to be of black and guard; but is it not a corruption of black-ard, black-king?]

A vulgar term applied to a mean fellow, who uses abusive, scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse.

BLACK'-LEAD, noun A mineral of a dark steel-gray color, and of a scaly texture, composed of carbon, with a small portion of iron. This name, black-lead is improper, as it contains no lead. It is called plumbago, and technically graphite, as it is used for pencils.

BLACK'-LEGS, noun In some parts of England, a disease among calves and sheep. It is a sort of jelly which settles in the legs and sometimes in the neck.

BLAD'DER-NUT, noun [bladder and nut.] A genus of plants, with the generic name of Staphyloea. They have three capsules, inflated and joined by a longitudinal suture.

1. The African bladder nut is the Royena.

2. The laurel-leaved bladder-nut is a species of Ilex, holm or holly.

BLAD'DER-SENNA, or bastard-senna, a genus of plants, called in botany Colutea.

The jointed-podded bladder-senna is the Coronilla.

BLA'DE-BONE, noun The scapula, or upper bone in the shoulder.

BLA'DE-SMITH, noun A sword cutler.

BLANC-MANGER, pronoun blomonge. In cookery, a preparation of dissolved isinglass, milk, sugar, cinnamon, etc., boiled into a thick consistence, and garnished for the table with blanched almonds.

BLAZ'ING-STAR, noun A comet; a star that is accompanied with a coma or train of light.

BLE'AR-EYED, adjective Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.

BLOCK'-TIN, noun [block and tin.] Tin which is pure, unmixed, and unwrought.

BLOOD-BESPOT'TED, adjective Spotted with blood.

BLOOD-BOLTERED, adjective [blood and bolter.] Sprinkled with blood. [Not used.]

BLOOD-CONSU'MING, adjective Wasting the blood.

BLOOD-FROZEN, adjective Having the blood chilled.

BLOOD-HOT, adjective [blood and hot.] As warm as blood in its natural temperature.

BLOOD-HOUND, noun [blood and hound.] A species of canis or dog, with long, smooth and pendulous ears, remarkable for the acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover game which had escaped wounded from the hunter, by tracing the lost animal by the blood it had spilt; whence the name of the dog.

BLOOD-LET, verb transitive To bleed; to let blood.

BLOOD'-LETTER, noun One who lets blood, as in diseases; a phlebotomist.

BLOOD'-ROOT, noun A plant so named from its color; a species of sanguinaria, called also puccoon, turmeric and red root.

BLOOD'-SUCKER, noun [blood and suck.] Any animal that sucks blood, as a leech, a fly, etc. A cruel man; a murderer.

BLOOD'-SUCKING, adjective That sucks or draws blood.

BLOOD'-THIRSTY, adjective [blood and thirst.] Desirous to shed blood; murderous.

BLOOD'-VESSEL, noun [blood and vessel.] Any vessel in which blood circulates in an animal body; an artery or a vein.

BLOOD'-WARM, adjective Warm as blood; luke warm.

BLOOD'-WITE, noun [blood and wite, a fine or penalty.]

In ancient law, a fine or amercement, paid as a composition for the shedding of blood.

BLOOD'-WOOD, noun [blood and wood.] A name given to log-wood, from its color.

BLOOD'-WORT, noun [blood and wort.] A plant, a species of Rumex.

BLOOD'Y-EYED, adjective Having bloody or cruel eyes.

BLOOD'Y-FACED, adjective Having a bloody face or appearance.

BLOOD'Y-FLUX, noun [blood and flux.] The dysentery, a disease in which the discharges from the bowels have a mixture of blood.

BLOOD'Y-HAND, noun [blood and hand.] A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.

BLOOD'Y-HUNTING, adjective Hunting for blood.

BLOOD'Y-MINDED, adjective [blood and mind.] Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; barbarous; inclined to shed blood.

BLOOD'Y-RED, adjective Having the color blood.

BLOODY-SCEP'TERED, adjective Having a scepter obtained by blood or slaughter.

BLOOD'Y-SWEAT, noun [blood and sweat.] A sweat, accompanied by a discharge of blood; also a disease, called sweating sickness, which formerly prevailed in England and other countries.

BLOW-BALL, noun [blow and ball.] The flower of the dandelion.

BLOW-PIPE, , noun [blow and pipe.] An instrument by which a blast or current of air is driven through the flame of a lamp or candle, and that flame directed upon a mineral substance, to fuse or vitrify it.

BLOW-PIPE of the artist, a conical tube of brass, glass or other substance, usually a quarter of an inch in diameter at one end, and capillary or nearly so at the other, where it is bent nearly to a right angle. This is used to propel a jet of air from the lungs, through the flame of a lamp or candle, upon substance to be fused.

BLOW-PIPE of the mineralogist, the same instrument substantially as the foregoing, but usually fitted with an ivory or silver mouth-piece, and with several movable jets to produce flames of different sizes. Its office is to produce instantly a furnace heat, on minute fragments of mineral substances, supported on charcoal, by platina forceps. etc.

Compound blow-pipe of Dr. Hare, invented in 1821, an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, propelled by hydrostatic or other pressure, coming from separate reservoirs, in the proportions requisite to form water, are made to unite in a capillary orifice, at the moment when they are kindled. The heat produced, when the focus is formed on charcoal or any non-conducting substance, is such as to melt every thing but the diamond, to burn the metals, and to dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances.

The blow-pipe of Newman, Clark, etc. is the compound blow-pipe of Dr. Hare, with some unimportant modifications.

BLOW-POINT, noun [blow and point.] A kind of play among children.

BLU'E-BIRD, noun [blue and bird.] A small bird, a species of Motacilla, very common in the U. States. The upper part of the body is blue, and the throat and breast, of a dirty red. It makes its nest in the hole of a tree.

BLU'E-BONNET, noun [blue and bonnet.] A plant, a species of Centaurea.

BLU'E-BOTTLE, an. [blue and bottle.] A plant, a species of Centaurea, called Cyanus, which grows among corn. This and the former plant receive their names from their blue funnel-shaped flowers.

1. A fly with a large blue belly.

BLU'E-CAP, noun [blue and cap.] A fish of the salmon kind, with blue spots on its head.

BLU'E-EYED, adjective Having blue eyes.

BLU'E-FISH, noun [blue and fish.] A fish, a species of Coryphaena, of the order of thoracics, found about the Bahamas, and on the coast of Cuba.

BLU'E-HAIRED, adjective Having hair of a blue color.

BLU'E-JOHN, noun Among miners, fluor spar, a mineral, found in the mines of Derbyshire, and fabricated into vases and other ornamental figures.

BLU'E-THROAT, noun [blue and throat.] A bird with a tawny breast, marked with a sky-blue crescent, inhabiting the northern parts of Europe and Asia.

BLU'E-VEINED, adjective Having blue veins or streaks.

BOAR-SPEAR, noun A spear used in hunting boars.

BOAR, verb intransitive The manege, a horse is said to boar, when he shoots out his nose, raising it as high as his ears, and tosses his nose in the wind.

BOARD-LOAD, noun [bord and load.] The service required of a tenant to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house; also, the quantity of provision paid by a bord-man for bord-land.

BOARD-WAGES, noun Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victuals.

BOARDING-SCHOOL, noun A school, the scholars of which board with the teacher.

BOAT-BILL, noun [boat and bill.] A genus of birds, the Cancroma, of two species, the crested and the brown; but by some ornithologists, they are considered as varieties of the same species. They are of the grallic order, with a bill four inches long, not unlike a boat with the keel uppermost, or like the bowls of two spoons, with the hollow parts placed together.

BOAT-FLY or BOAT-INSECT, noun A genus of insects, hemipters, known in zoology by the generic term Notonecta.

BOAT-HOOK, noun [boat and hook.] an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat.

BOAT-ROPE, noun [boat and rope.] A rope to fasten a boat, usually called a painter.

BOAT-SHAPED, adjective Having the shape of a boat; navicular; cymbiform; hollow like a boat; as the valve of some pericarps.

BOB'-TAILED, adjective Having the hair cut short.

BOB-WIG, noun [bob and wig.] A short wig.

BOD'Y-CLOTHES, noun plural [body and cloth.]

Clothing or covering for the body, as for a horse.

BOD'Y-GUARD, noun The guard that protects or defense the person; the life guard. Hence, security.

BOG'-ORE, noun An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land.

BOG'-RUSH, noun [bog and rush.] A rush that grows in bogs, the Schoenus.

1. A bird, a species of warbler, of the size of a wren, of a testaceous brown color, seen among the bog-rushes of Schonen in Sweden.

BOG'-SPAVIN, noun [bog and spavin.] In horses, an encysted tumor on the inside of the hough, containing a gelatinous matter.

BOG'-TROTTER, noun [bog and trot.] One who lives in a boggy country.

BOG'-WHORT, noun [bog and whort.] The bilberry or whortleberry growing in low lands.

BOLD-FACE, noun [bold and face.] Impudence; sauciness; a term of reprehension, and reproach.

BOLD-FACED, adjective Impudent.

BOLT-AUGER, noun [bolt and auger.] A large borer, used in ship-building.

BOLT-BOAT, noun [bolt and boat.] A strong boat that will endure a rough sea.

BOLT-HEAD, noun [bolt and head.] A long straight-necked glass vessel for chimical distillations, called also a matrass or receiver.

BOLT-ROPE, noun [bolt and rope.] A rope to which the edges of sails are sewed to strengthen them. That part of it on the perpendicular side is called the leech-rope; that at the bottom, the foot-rope; that at the top, the head-rope.

BOLT-SPRIT, noun [From the universal popular pronunciation of this word, this may have been the original word; but I doubt it. See. Bowsprit.]

BOLTING-CLOTH, noun [bolt and cloth.] A linen or hair cloth of which bolters are made for sifting meal.

BOLTING-HOUSE, noun [bolt and house.] The house or place where meal is bolted.

BOLTING-HUTCH, noun A tub for bolted flour.

BOLTING-MILL, n, [bolt and mill.] A machine or engine for sifting meal.

BOLTING-TUB, noun A tub to sift meal in.

BON-CHRETIEN, noun A species of pear.

BO'NA-FIDE, [Latin] With good faith; without fraud or deception.

BONA-ROBA, noun A showy wanton.

BO'NE-ACE, noun [bone and ace.] A game at cards, in which he who has the highest card turned up to him, wins the bone, that is, one half the state.

BO'NE-ACHE, noun Pain in the bones.

BO'NE-SET, verb transitive [bone and set.] To set a dislocated bone; to unite broken bones.

BO'NE-SET, noun A plant, the thorough-wort, a species of Eupatorium.

BO'NE-SETTER, noun [bone and set.] One whose occupation is to set, and restore broken and dislocated bones.

BO'NE-SETTING, noun That branch of surgery which consists in replacing broken and luxated bones; the practice of setting bones.

BO'NE-SPAVIN, noun [bone and spavin.] A bony excrescence, or hard swelling, on the inside of the hock of a horse's leg; usually cured by blistering and firing, or caustic blisters.

BON'NET-PEPPER, noun A species of Capsicum, or guinea pepper.

BON'NY-CLABBER, noun A word used in Ireland for sour buttermilk.

It is used, in America, for any milk that is turned or become thick in the process of souring, and applied only to that part which is thick.

BOOK-ACCOUNT', noun [book and account.] An account or register of debt or credit in a book.

BOOK'-KEEPING, noun [book and keep.] The art of recording mercantile transactions in a regular and systematic manner; the art of keeping accounts in such a manner, that a man may know the true state of his business and property, or of his debts and credits, by an inspection of his books.

The books for this purpose are, 1. a Waste Book, or blotter, in which are registered all accounts or transactions in the order in which they take place. 2. The Journal, which contains the accounts transferred from the waste book, in the same order, but expressed in a technical style; 3. the Leger, in which articles of the same kind are collected together, from the journal, and arranged under proper titles.

In addition to these, several others are used; as cash-book; book of charges of merchandize; book of house-expenses; invoice-book; sales-book; bill-book; receipt-book; letter-book; pocket-book; the use of which may be understood from the names.

BORD-HALFPENNY, noun Money paid for setting up boards or a stall in market.

BORD-LAND, noun [bord and land.] See Board.]

In old law, the demain land which a lord kept in his hands for the maintenance of his bord, board, or table.

BORD-LODE

BORD-MAN, noun [bord and man.] A tenant of bord-land, who supplied his lord with provisions.

BORD'-RAGING, noun An incursion upon the borders of a country.

BORD'-SERVICE, noun [board and service.] The tenure by which bord-land was held, which was the payment of a certain quantity of provisions to the lord. In lieu of this, the tenant now pays six pence an acre.

BORD-MAN, n. [bord and man.] A tenant of bord-land, who supplied his lord with provisions.

BO'RE-COLE, noun A species of Brassica or cabbage.

BOROUGH-HOLDER, noun A head-borough; a borsholder.

BOROUGH-MASTER, noun The mayor, governor or baliff of a borough.

BOS'TRY-CHITE, noun A gem in the form of a lock of hair.

BOT'TLE-ALE, noun Bottled ale.

BOT'TLE-COMPANION

BOT'TLE-FLOWER, noun A plant, the cyanus, or blue bottle, a species of Centaurea.

BOT'TLE-FRIEND , noun A friend or companion in drinking.

BOT'TLE-SCREW, noun A screw to draw corks out of bottles.

BOULDER-WALL, noun [rather bowlder-wall. See Bowlder.]

A wall built of round flints or pebbles laid in a strong mortar, used where the sea has a beach cast up, or where there is a plenty of flints.

BOUND-BAILIFF, noun An officer appointed by a sheriff to execute process; so denominated from the bond given for the faithful discharge of his trust.

BOUND'ING-STONE

BOUND'-STONE, noun A stone to play with.

BO'VEY-COAL, noun Brown lignite, an inflammable fossil, resembling, in many of its properties, bituminous wood. Its structure is a little slaty; its cross fracture, even or conchoidal, with a resinous luster, somewhat shining. It is brittle, burns with a weak flame, and exhales an odor, which is generally disagreeable.

BOW-BEARER, noun [bos and bear.] An under officer of the forest, whose duty is to inform of trespasses.

BOW-BENT, adjective [bow and bend.] Crooked.

BOW-DYE, noun A kind of scarlet color, superior to madder, but inferior to the true scarlet grain for fixedness, and duration; first used at Bow, near London.

BOW'-GRACE, noun In sea language, a frame or composition of junk, laid out at the sides, stem, or bows of ships to secure them from injury by ice.

BOW-HAND, noun [bow and hand.] The hand that draws a bow.

BOW-LEGGED, adjective [bow and leg.] Having crooked legs.

BOW-SHOT, noun [bow and shot.] The space which an arrow may pass when shot from a bow. Genesis 21:16.

BOW-STRING, noun [bow and string.] The string of a bow.

BOW-WINDOW. [See Bay-window.]

BOWLDER-STONE. [See Bowlder.]

BOWLDER-WALL, noun A wall constructed of pebbles or bowlders of flint or other siliceous stones, which have been rounded by the action of water.

BOWLING-GREEN, noun [bowl and green.] A level piece of ground kept smooth for bowling.

1. In gardening, a parterre in a grove, laid with fine turf, with compartments of divers figures, with dwarf trees and other decorations. It may be used for bowling; but the French and Italians have such greens for ornament.

BOYS-PLAY, noun Childish amusement; any thing trifling.

BRAM'BLE-NET, noun [bramble and net.] A hallier, or a net to catch birds.

BRAN-NEW,

a. Properly brand-new. Quite new, [fire new]; bright or shining.

BR'ANCH-LEAF, noun A leaf growing on a branch.

BR'ANCH-PEDUNCLE, noun A peduncle springing from a branch.

BR'ANCH-PILOT, noun A pilot who has a branch or public commission.

BRAND'-GOOSE, noun A species of Anas, or the goose kind; usually called in America brant or brent.

BRAND'-NEW, adjective Quite new; bright as a brand of fire.

BRAND'ING-IRON, noun An iron to brand with.

BRAN'DY-WINE, noun Brandy.

BR'ASS-PAVED, adjective Hard as brass.

BR'ASS-VISAGED, adjective Impudent.

BRA'ZEN-FACE, noun [brazen and face.] An impudent person; one remarkable for effrontery.

BRA'ZEN-FACED, adjective Impudent; bold to excess; shameless.

BRAZIL'-WOOD, n. Brazil, or brazil-wood, or braziletto, is a very heavy wood of a red color, growing in Brazil, and other tropical countries. It is used in manufactures for dyeing red. It is a species of Caesalpina.

BREAD'-ROOM, noun An apartment in a ship's hold, where the bread is kept.

BREAD'-TREE, noun [bread and tree.] The bread-fruit tree, or Artocarpus, a tree which grows in the isles of the Pacific ocean, of the size of an apple-tree, producing a fruit shaped like a heart, and as large as a small loaf of bread, which is eaten as food.

BREAST'-WORK, noun [breast and work.] In fortification, a work thrown up for defense; a parapet, which see.

BRE'ATHING-TIME, noun Pause, relaxation.

BREE'D-BATE, noun One that breeds or originates quarrels. [Not in use.]

BREW'-HOUSE, adjective [brew and house.] A brewery; a house appropriated to brewing.

BRIBE-DEVOUR'ING, adjective Greedy of bribes or presents; as bribe-devouring kings.

BRI'DLE-HAND, noun [bridle and hand.] The hand which holds the bridle in riding.

BRIGA'DE-MAJOR, noun [See Major.] An officer appointed by the brigadier, to assist him in the management and ordering of his brigade.

BRIGHT-BURNING, adjective Burning with a bright flame.

BRIGHT-EYED, adjective Having bright eyes.

BRIGHT-HAIRED, adjective Having bright hair.

BRIGHT-HARNESSED, adjective Having glittering armor.

BRIGHT-SHINING, adjective Shining with splendor.

BRI'NE-PAN, noun [brine and pan.] A pit of salt water, where, by the action of the sun, salt is formed by crystallization.

BRI'NE-PIT, noun [brine and pit.] A brine pan, or a salt spring from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.

BRI'NE-SPRING, noun [bring and spring.] A spring of salt water.

BRIS'TLE-SHAPED, adjective [bristle and shape.] To the thickness and length of a bristle, as a leaf.

BRIS'TOL-FLOWER, noun A species of Lychnis, bachelor's button or catch fly.

BRIS'TOL-STONE, noun Rock crystal or crystals of quartz, found in a rock near the city of Bristol in England.

BRIS'TOL-WATER, noun The water of a warm spring near the city of Bristol in England.

BROAD-AX, noun [broad and ax.] Formerly, a military weapon. In modern usage, an ax for hewing timber.

BROAD-BACKED, adjective [broad and back.] Having a broad back.

BROAD-BLOWN, adjective [broad and blow.] Full blown.

BROAD-BREASTED, adjective Having a broad breast.

BROAD-BRIMMED, adjective [broad and brim.] Having a broad brim.

BROAD-CAST, noun [broad and cast.] Among farmers, a casting or throwing seed from the hand for dispersion in sowing.

BROAD-CAST, adverb By scattering or throwing at large from the hand; as, to sow broad-cast

BROAD-CAST, adjective Cast or dispersed upon the ground with the hand, as seed in sowing; opposed to planting in hills or rows.

BROAD-CLOTH, noun A species of woolen cloth, so called from its breadth.

BROAD-EYED, adjective [broad and eye.] Having a wide view or survey; as broad-eyed day.

BROAD-FRONTED, adjective Having a broad front; applied to cattle.

BROAD-HORNED, adjective Having large horns.

BROAD-LEAFED, adjective [broad and leaf.] Having broad leaves.

BROAD-LEAVED,

BROAD-PIECE, noun [broad and piece.] A piece of gold coin broader than a guinea.

BROAD-PIECE, n. [broad and piece.] A piece of gold coin broader than a guinea.

BROAD-SEAL, noun The great seal of England; as a verb, not used.

BROAD-SHOULDERED, adjective [broad and shoulder.] Broad across the shoulders.

BROAD-SIDE, noun [broad and side.] A discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship, above and below, at the same time.

1. The side of a ship, above the water, from the bow to the quarter.

2. In printing, a sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only.

BROAD-SPREADING, adjective Spreading widely.

BROAD-SWORD, noun [broad and sword.] A sword with a broad blade, and a cutting edge.

BROAD-TAILED, adjective Having a broad tail.

BROAD-WISE, adverb [broad and wise.] In the direction of the breadth.

BROCADE-SHELL, noun The trivial name of the Conus geographicus.

BROGUE-MAKER, noun A maker of brogues.

BRO'KEN-BACKED, adjective A broken-backed ship is one which is so weakened in her frame as to droop at each end.

BRO'KEN-BELLIED, adjective Having a ruptured belly.

BRO'KEN-HEARTED, adjective [break and heart.] Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.

BROME-GRASS, noun A plant, the Bromus.

BROOM'-CORN, noun [broom and corn.] A species of Holcus or Guinea-corn, with a jointed stem, like a reed, or the stem of maize, rising to the highth of eight or ten feet, bearing a head of which brooms are made. Sometimes called Sorghum Saccharatum.

BROTH'EL-HOUSE, noun A brothel.

BROWN-SPAR, noun Pearl spar, or siderocalcite.

BROWN'-STUDY, noun [brown and study.] Gloomy study; dull thoughtfulness; meditation directed to no certain object.

BROWN'-WORT, noun [brown and wort.] A plant, prunella.

1. A species of Scrophularia, the vernalis, or yellow figwort, with brown stalks.

BUCK'ING-STOOL, noun A washing block.

BUCK'LER-THORN, noun Christ's thorn.

BUDGE-BACHELORS, a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with lamb's fur, who accompany the Lord Mayor of London at his inauguration.

BUDGE-BARREL, noun A small barrel with only one head; on the other end, a piece of leather is nailed, which is drawn together upon strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder, with a gun or mortar.

BUFF'LE-HEAD, noun [buffle and head.] One who has a large head.

BUFF'LE-HEADED, adjective Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; foolish.

BU'GLE-HORN, n. A hunting horn.

BU'GLE-WEED, noun A plant, the lycopus virginicus, valued as a remedy for haemoptysis, or spitting of blood.

BULK'-HEAD, noun [bulk and head.] A partition in a ship made with boards, to form separate apartments.

BULL'-FIGHT, noun [bull and fight.] A combat with a bull; an amusement among the Spaniards and Portuguese. A horseman, called a toreador or picador attacks a bull in a circus or inclosed arena, in presence of multitudes of spectators, irritating him with a spear, till the bull rushes upon the horseman, and perhaps dismounts the rider. After the bull has been tormented a long time, the horseman leaves him, and some persons on foot attack him and plunge darts into his neck; and at a signal given by the president, the barbarous sport is ended by the dagger of a matador.

BULL'-FINCH, noun [bull and finch.] A bird of the Sparrow kind, whose breast, cheeks and throat are of a crimson color; the rubicilla.

BULL'-FLY, or BULL'-BEE, noun An insect.

BULL'-FROG, noun [bull and frog.] The rana ocellata, a large species of frog, found in North America, of a dusky brown color, mixed with a yellowish green, and spotted with black. These frogs live in stagnant water, and utter a loud croaking sound, from which they probably received their name.

BULL'-HEAD, noun [bull and head.] A genus of fishes, the Cottus, with a head broader than the body, whence the name. This fish is called by some the Miller's thumb.

1. A stupid fellow; a lubber.

2. A small black water vermin.

BULL'-TROUT, noun [bull and trout.] A large species of trout, called also sea-trout, thicker than the common sort, and weighing about three pounds. Its back has a bluish green gloss, and there are several black spots on the sides.

BULL'-WEED, noun Knap weed.

BULL'-WORT, noun Bishops weed.

BULL'S-EYE, noun [bull and eye.] Among seamen, a piece of wood in the form of a ring, answering the purpose of a thimble.

1. Aldebaran, a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Taurus.

2. A small obscure cloud, ruddy in the middle, portending a great storm.

BULL'-FACED, adjective Having a large face.

BULL'-FEAST, noun [See Bull-fight.]

BUR'-REED, n. A plant, the Sparganium.

BURG'ER-MASTER, noun An aquatic fowl which builds its nest on cliffs near the water.

BURG'ESS-SHIP, noun The state or quality of a burgess.

BURGH'-M'ASTER, noun [burgh and master.] A burgomaster; also, an officer in the tinmines, who directs and lays out the meers for the workmen, called also bailiff and bar-master.

BURGH'ER-SHIP, noun The state or privilege of a burgher.

BURNET-SAXIFRAGE, noun A plant, Pimpinella.

BURN'ING-GLASS, noun [burn and glass.] A convex glass which, when exposed to the direct rays of the sun, collects them into a small space, called a focus, producing an intense heat. The name is given also to a concave mirror which condenses the sun's rays.

BURNING-THORNY-PLANT. A species of Euphorbia or spurge.

BURNT-OFFERING, noun [burnt and offer.] Something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice; called also burnt-sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or sheep; or some species of vegetable substance, as bread and ears of wheat or barley.

BUR'RAS-PIPE, noun An instrument or vessel used to keep corroding powders in.

BURREL-FLY, noun The ox-fly, gad-bee, or breeze.

BURREL-SHOT, noun Small shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., put into cases, to be discharged among enemies.

BURS'AR-SHIP, noun The office of a bursar.

BURYING-PLACE, noun A grave-yard; a place appropriated to the sepulture of the dead; a church-yard.

BUSY-BODY, noun biz'zy-body. [busy and body.]

A meddling person; one who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others.

BUT-END, noun [but and end.] The largest or blunt end of a thing; as the but-end of a musket or of a piece of timber. This word is tautological, but and end signifying the same thing; unless but is considered as equivalent to swelling, protuberant.

BUTCH'ER-BIRD, noun The shrike; a genus of birds, called Lanius. One species of this genus is called king-bird, from its courage in attacking hawks and crows.

The king-bird is now arranged under the genus Muscicapa.

BUTCH'ER'S-BROOM, noun Ruscus; a genus of plants, called also knee-holly. It is used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks.

BUT'TER-BUMP, noun The bittern.

BUT'TER-BURR, noun A plant, a species of Tussilago, or Colt's-foot, called petasites, growing in wet land, with large leaves.

BUT'TER-CUPS, noun A name given to a species of Ranunculus or crow-foot, with bright yellow flowers; called also golden-cup.

BUT'TER-FLOWER, noun A yellow flower.

BUT'TER-MILK, noun The milk that remains after the butter is separated from it. Johnson calls this whey; but whey is the thin part of the milk after the curd or cheese is separated. butter-milk in America is not called whey.

BUT'TER-PRINT,

BUT'TER-STAMP, noun A piece of carved wood, used to mark cakes of butter.

BUT'TER-STAMP, n. A piece of carved wood, used to mark cakes of butter.

BUT'TER-TOOTH, noun A broad fore tooth.

BUT'TER-WIFE,

BUT'TER-WOMAN, noun A woman who sells butter.

BUT'TER-WOMAN, n. A woman who sells butter.

BUTTERFLY-SHELL, noun A genus of testaceous'molluscas, with a spiral unilocular shell; called voluta.

BUT'TON-HOLE, noun The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

BUT'TON-MAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make buttons.

BUT'TON-STONE, noun A species of figured stone, or hard flint, resembling a button, consisting of two bodies which appear to be the filling up of holes in a shell. A species has been found finely striated, like a mohair button. This name is given also to a species of slate found in the marquisate of Bareith.

BUT'TON-TREE, noun The Conocarpus, called also button-wood, a genus of plants, natives of the West-Indies.

BUT'TON-WEED, noun A genus of plants, the Spermacoce.

BUT'TON-WOOD, noun The Cephalanthus, a shrub of noun America, growing five or six feet high.

1. The Platanus Occidentalis, Western plane-tree, a large tree growing in noun America, producing rough balls, from which it is named. The wood is hard, and used for windlasses, wheels and blocks.

BY-COFFEE-HOUSE, noun A coffee house in an obscure place.

BY-CONCERN'MENT, noun An affair distinct from the main business.

BY'-CORNER, noun A private corner.

BY-DEPEND'ENCE, noun An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence.

BY-DESI'GN, noun An incidental design, or purpose.

BY'-DRINKING, noun A private drinking.

BY'-END, noun Private end; secret purpose or advantage.

BY'-GONE, adjective Past; gone by.

BY'-INTEREST, noun Self interest; private advantage.

BY'-LANE, noun A private lane, or one out of the usual road.

BY'-LAW, noun A town law; the law of a city, town or private corporation.

BY'-MATTER, noun Something incidental.

BY'-NAME, noun Nickname; an incidental appellation.

BY'-PAST, adjective Past; gone by.

BY'-PATH, noun A private path; an obscure way.

BY-RESPECT', noun Private end, or view.

BY'-ROAD, noun A private or obscure road.

BY'-ROOM, noun A private room or apartment.

BY'-SPEECH, noun An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.

BY'-SPELL, noun A proverb. [Not used.]

BY'-STANDER, noun One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

BY'-STREET, noun A separate, private or obscure street.

BY'-TURNING, noun An obscure road.

BY'-VIEW, noun Private view; self interested purpose.

BY'-WALK, noun A secluded or private walk.

BY'-WAY, noun A secluded, private or obscure way.

BY-WEST', adverb Westward; ; to the west of.

BY'-WIPE, noun A secret stroke or sarcasm.

BY'-WORD, noun A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.

CABBAGE-NET, noun A small net to boil cabbage in.

CABBAGE-TREE, noun The cabbage-palm, a species of Areca, the oleracea, a native of warm climates. This tree grows with a straight stem to the height of 170 or 200 feet. Its branches grow in a circular manner, and the lowermost ones spread horizontally with great regularity. The fibers of the leaves are used for making cordage and nets. On the top grows a substance called cabbage, lying in thin, snow-white, brittle flakes, in taste resembling an almond, but sweeter. This is boiled and eaten with flesh, like other vegetables. When this is cut out, the tree is destroyed.

CABBAGE-WORM, noun An insect.

CABIN-BOY, noun A boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers on board of a ship.

CABIN-MATE, noun One who occupies the same cabin with another.

CABINET-COUNCIL, noun

1. A council held with privacy; the confidential council of a prince or executive magistrate.

2. The members of a privy council; a select number of confidential counselors.

CABINET-MAKER, noun A man whose occupation is to make cabinets, tables, bureaus, bed-steads, and other similar furniture.

CABLE-TIER, noun The place where the cables are coiled away.

CADE-OIL, noun In the materia medica, an oil used in Germany and France, made of the fruit of the oxycedrus, called in those countries, cada.

CADE-WORM, noun The same as caddis.

CALABASH-TREE, noun A tree of two species, known in botany by the generic name Crescentia. The cujete has narrow leaves, but a large round or oval fruit. The latifolia has broad leaves. The shell of the fruit is used for cups, bowls, dishes and other utensils.

CALC-SINTER, noun Stalactitic carbonate of lime.

CALC-TUFF, noun An alluvial formation of carbonate of lime.

CALCARIO-SULPHUROUS, a. [See Calx and Sulphur.] Having lime and sulphur in combination, or partaking of both.

CALF-LIKE, adjective Resembling a calf.

CALF-SKIN, noun The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

CALICO-PRINTER, noun One whose occupation is to print calicoes.

CALKING-IRON, noun Cauking-iron. An instrument like a chisel, used in calking ships.

CALVES-SNOUT, noun A plant, snap-dragon, antirrhinum.

CAMEL-BACKED, adjective Having a back like a camel.

Cameleon mineral. [See Chameleon.] A compound of pure potash and black oxyd of manganese, fused together, whose solution in water, at first green, passes spontaneously through the whole series of colored rays to the red; and by the addition of potash, it returns to its original green.

CAMP-FIGHT, noun In law writers, a trial by duel, or the legal combat of two champions, for the decision of a controversy. [Camp in W. Is a game, and campiaw is to contend.]

CAMPEACHY-WOOD, from Campeachy in Mexico.

CAMPHOR-OIL. [See Camphor-tree.]

CAMPHOR-TREE, noun The tree from which camphor is obtained. According to Miller, there are two sorts of trees that produce camphor; one, a native of Borneo, which produces the best species; the other, a native of Japan, which resembles the bay-tree, bearing black or purple berries. But the tree grows also in Sumatra. The stem is thick, the bark of a brownish color, and the ramification strong, close and extended. The, wood is soft, easily worked, and useful for domestic purposes. To obtain camphor, the tree is cut down, and divided into pieces, and the camphor taken out; it being found in small whitish flakes, situated perpendicularly, in irregular veins, in and near the center of the tree. It is then repeatedly soaked and washed in soapy water, to separate from it all extraneous matter. It is then passed through three sieves of different texture, to divide it into three sorts, head, belly and foot camphor. Camphor oil is camphor, before the operations of nature have reduced it to a concrete form; and concrete camphor may be reduced to oil, by the nitric acid.

CAN-BUOY, noun In seamanship, a buoy in form of a cone, made large, and sometimes painted, as a mark to designate shoals, etc.

CAN-HOOK, noun An instrument to sling a cask by the ends of its staves, formed by reeving a piece of rope through two flat hooks, and splicing its ends together.

CANAL-COAL. [See Cannel-coal.]

CANARY-BIRD, noun A singing bird from the Canary isles, a species of Fringilla. The bill is conical and straight; the body is yellowish white; the prime feathers of the wings and tail are greenish. These birds are now bred in other countries.

CANARY-GRASS, noun A plant, the Phalaris, whose seed are collected for canary-birds.

CANDLE-BOMB, noun A small glass bubble, filled with water, place in the wick of a candle, where it bursts with a report.

CANNEL-COAL or CANDLE-COAL noun A hard, opake, inflammable fossil coal of a black color, sufficiently solid to be cut and polished. On fire it decrepitates and breaks into angular fragments. It is sometimes used for inkholders and toys.

CANDLE-HOLDER, noun A person that holds a candle. Hence, one that remotely assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.

CANDLE-LIGHT, noun The light of a candle; the necessary candles for use.

CANDLE-STICK, noun An instrument or utensil to hold a candle, made in different forms and of different materials; originally a stick or piece of wood.

CANDLE-STUFF, noun A material of which candles are made, as tallow, wax, etc.

CANDLES-ENDS, noun Scraps; fragments.

CANDY-TUFTS, noun

1. A plant, the Iberis.

2. A Cretan flower.

CANE-BRAKE, noun A thicket of canes.

CANE-HOLE, noun A hole or trench for planting the cuttings of cane, on sugar plantations.

CANE-TRASH, noun Refuse of canes, or macerated rinds of cane, reserved for fuel to boil the cane-juice.

CANKER-FLY, noun A fly that preys on fruit.

CANKER-LIKE, adjective Eating or corrupting like a canker.

CANKER-WORM, noun A worm, destructive to trees or plants. In America, this name is given to a worm that, in some years, destroys the leaves and fruit of apple trees. This animal springs from an egg deposited by a miller, that issues from the ground.

CANNEL-COAL or CANDLE-COAL, noun A hard, opake, inflammable fossil coal of a black color, sufficiently solid to be cut and polished. On fire it decrepitates and breaks into angular fragments. It is sometimes used for inkholders and toys.

CANNON-BALL, noun A ball, usually made of cast iron, to be thrown from cannon. Cannon bullet, of the like signification, is not now used. Cannon balls were originally of stone.

CANNON-PROOF, adjective Proof against cannon shot.

CANNON-SHOT, noun A ball for cannon; also, the range or distance a cannon will throw a ball.

CANON-BIT, noun That part of a bit let into a horses mouth.

CANVAS-CLIMBER, noun A sailor that goes aloft to handle sails.

CAPER-BUSH. [See Caper.]

CAPER-CUTTING, noun A leaping or dancing in a frolicksome manner.

CARD-MAKER, noun A maker of cards.

CARD-MATCH, noun A match made by dipping pieces of card in melted sulphur.

CARDING-MACHINE, noun A machine lately invented, for combing, breaking and cleansing wool and cotton. It consists of cylinders, thick set with teeth, and moved by the force of water, steam, etc.

CARE-CRAZED, adjective [care and craze.] Broken or disordered by care, or solicitude; as a care-crazed mother.

CARE-DEFYING, adjective Bidding defiance to care.

CARE-DEFYING, adjective Bidding defiance to care.

CARE-TUNED, adjective Tuned by care; mournful.

CARE-WOUNDED, adjective Wounded with care.

CARLINE-THISTLE, noun A genus of plants growing in the south of France, and one a native of Great Britain.

CARNAL-MINDED, adjective Worldly-minded.

CARNAL-MINDEDNESS, noun Grossness of mind.

CARPET-WALK, noun A walk on smooth turf.

CARRICK-BEND, noun [See Carry.]

1. One who carries; that which carries or conveys; also, a messenger.

2. One who is employed to carry goods for others for a reward; also, one whose occupation is to carry goods for others, called a common carrier; a porter.

3. A pigeon that conveys letters from place to place, the letters being tied to the neck.

CARRY-TALE, noun A tale-bearer.

CART-BOTE, noun In English law, wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

CART-HORSE, noun A horse that draws a cart.

CART-JADE, noun A sorry horse; a horse used in drawing, or fit only for the cart.

CART-LOAD, noun A load borne on a cart; as much as is usually carried at once on a cart, or as is sufficient to load it.

CART-ROPE, noun A rope for binding hay, or other articles on a cart.

CART-RUT, noun The cut or track of a cartwheel. [See Route.]

CART-TIRE, noun The tire, or iron bands, used to bind the wheels of a cart.

CART-WAY, noun A way that is or may be passed with carts, or other wheel carriages.

CART-WHEEL, noun The wheel of a cart.

CART-WRIGHT, noun An artificer who makes carts.

Carte-blanche. A blank paper, signed at the bottom with a persons name, and sometimes sealed with his seal, given to another person with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases.

CARTRIDGE-BOX, noun A case, usually of wood, covered with leather, with cells for cartridges. It is worn upon a belt thrown over the left shoulder, and hangs a little below the pocket-hole on the right side.

CASE-HARDEN, verb transitive To harden the outer part or superficies, as of iron, by converting it into steel. This may be done by putting the iron into an iron box, with a cement, and exposing it, for some hours, to a red heat.

CASE-KNIFE, noun A large table knife, often kept in a case.

CASE-WORM, noun A worm that makes itself a case.

CASH-ACCOUNT, noun An account of money received, paid, or on hand.

CASH-BOOK, noun A book in which is kept a register or account of money.

CASH-KEEPER, noun One entrusted with the keeping of money.

CASHEW-NUT, noun A tree of the West-Indies, Anacardium, bearing a kidney-shaped nut. The fruit is as large as an orange, and full of an acid juice, which is often used to make punch. To the apex of this fruit grows a nut, of the size of a hares kidney, the shell of which is hard, and the kernel, which is sweet, is covered with a thin film.

CASTILE-SOAP, noun A kind of pure, refined soap.

CASTING-NET, noun A net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left.

CASTING-VOICE, noun The vote of a presiding officer, in an assembly or council, which decides a question, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided between the affirmative and negative.

When there was an equal vote, the Governor had the casting voice.

CASTING-VOTE,

CASTLE, noun

1. A house fortified for defense against an enemy; a fortress. The term seems to include the house and the walls or other works around it. In old writers, the word is used for a town or village fortified.

2. The house or mansion of a nobleman or prince.

3. In a ship, there are two parts called by this name; the forecastle, a short deck in the fore part of the ship, above the upper deck; and the hindcastle, at the stern.

Castle in the air, a visionary project; a scheme that has no solid foundation.

CASTLE, verb transitive In the game of chess, to cover the king with a castle, by a certain move.

CASTLE-BUILDER, noun One who forms visionary schemes.

CASTLE-BUILDER, noun The act of building castles in the air.

CASTLE-CROWNED, adjective Crowned with a castle.

CASTLE-GUARD, noun A feudal tenure, or knight service, which obliged the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.

CASTLE-WARD, noun An imposition laid upon subjects dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in the castle.

CASTOR-OIL, noun The oil of the Ricinus, or Palma Christi, a plant of the West Indies, which grows to the highth of twenty feet, in one season. The oil is obtained from the nuts or seeds by expression or decoction. That obtained by decoction is preferred, as less liable to become rancid, being free from the mucilage and acrid matter, which is mixed with the oil when expressed. It is a mild cathartic.

CAT-BLOCK, noun A two or three fold block with an iron strop and large hook, used to draw up an anchor to the cat-head.

CAT-EYED, adjective Having eyes like a cat.

CAT-FISH, noun A species of the Squalus, or shark. The cat-fish of the noun American rivers is a species of Cottus, or bull-head.

CAT-GUT, noun The intestines of sheep or lambs, dried and twisted together, used as strings for violins and other instruments, and for other purposes. Great quantities are imported from Lyons and Italy.

CAT-HARPINGS, noun Ropes serving to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their respective yards, to tighten the shrouds and give more rom to draw in the yards, when the whip is close hauled.

CAT-HEAD, noun A strong beam projecting horizontally horizontally over a ships bows, carrying two or three sheaves, about which a rope called the cat-fall passes, and communicates with the cat-block.

CAT-LIKE. adjective Resembling a cat.

CAT-MINT, noun A plant of the genus Nepeta, so called because cats eat it.

CAT-PIPE, noun [See Catcall.]

CATSUP, noun [See Catchup, Ketchup.]

CAT-SALT, noun A sort of salt beautifully granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach-brine, used for making hard soap.

CAT-TAIL, noun

1. A species of reed, of the genus Typha, the downy substance of which is used for stuffing mattresses, etc.

2. A substance growing on nut-trees, pines, etc.

CATCH-FLY, noun A plant of the genus Lychnis; campion.

CATCH-POLL, noun A bailiffs assistant, so called by way of reproach.

CATCH-WORD, noun Among printers, the word placed at the bottom of each page, under the last line, which is to be inserted as the first word on the following page.

CATER-COUSIN, noun A quaere-cousin, a remote relation.

CATERPILLAR-EATER, noun A worm bred in the body of a caterpillar, which eats it.

CATH-ARIST, noun One who pretends to more purity than others possess.

CATS-EYE, noun Sun-stone, a subspecies of quartz, called in Latin oculus cati or onycopalus, from its white zones or rings like onyx, and its variable colors like opal. It is very hard and semitransparent, and from certain points exhibits a yellowish radiation, or chatoyant appearance, somewhat resembling a cats eye.

CATS-FOOT, noun A plant of the genus Glechoma, ground ivy, or gill.

CATS-HEAD, noun A kind of apple.

CATS-PAW, noun

1. Among seamen, a light air perceived, in a calm, by a rippling of the surface of the water; also, a particular turn in the bight of a rope, made to hook a tackle on.

2. A dupe; the instrument which another uses.

CEDAR-LIKE, adjective Resembling a cedar.

CELE-RIAC, noun A variety of celery, called also the turnep-rooted celery. see Celery.]

CHAFE-WAX, noun In England, an officer belonging to the Lord Chancellor, who fits the wax for the sealing of writs.

CHAFING-DISH, noun A dish or vessel to hold coals for heating any thing set on it; a portable grate for coals.

CHAIR-MAN, noun

1. The presiding officer or speaker of an assembly, association or company, particularly of a legislative house; also, the president or senior member of a committee.

2. One whose business is to carry a chair.

CHALK-CUTTER, noun A man that digs chalk.

CHALK-PIT, noun A pit in which chalk is dug.

CHALK-STONE, noun

1. In medicine, a calcarious concretion in the hands and feet of men violently affected by the gout.

2. White with chalk; consisting of chalk; as, chalky cliffs.

3. Impregnated with chalk; as, chalky water.

CHAMBER-FELLOW, AMBER-FELLOW, noun One who sleeps in the same apartment.

CHAMBER-LYE, noun Urine.

CHAMBER-MAID,

CHAMBER-MAID, noun A woman who has the care of chambers, making the beds, and cleaning the rooms, or who dresses a lady and waits upon her in her apartment.

CHAMBER-POT, noun A vessel used in bedrooms.

CHAMBER-PRACTICE,

CHAMBER-PRACTICE, noun The practice of counselors at law, who give their opinions in private, but do not appear in court.

CHAN-CRE, noun A venereal ulcer.

CHAN-CROUS, adjective Ulcerous; having the qualities of a chancer.

CHANCE-COMER, noun One who comes unexpectedly.

CHANCE-MEDLEY, noun In law, the killing of a person by chance, when the killer is doing a lawful act; for if he is doing an unlawful act, it is felony. As if a man, when throwing bricks from a house into a street where people are continually passing, after giving warning to passengers to take care, should kill a person, this is chance-medley But if he gives no warning, and kills a man, it is manslaughter.

CHAP-FALLEN, adjective [chap and fall.] Having the lower chap depressed; hence, dejected; dispirited; silenced.

CHAPTER-HOUSE, noun A house where a chapter meets.

CHAR-WOMAN, noun A woman hired for odd work, or for single days.

[Char-man and char-woman are, I believe, not used in America.]

CHAR, verb transitive

1. To burn or reduce to coal or carbon; to reduce to charcoal, by expelling all volatile matter from wood. This is done by burning wood slowly under a covering of turf and earth.

2. To expel all volatile matter from stone or earth, by heat.

The stone or earth charred from all foreign visible ingredients.

CHARIOT-MAN, noun The driver of a chariot. 2 Chronicles 18:1.

CHARIOT-RACE, noun A race with chariots; a sport in which chariots were driven in contest for a prize.

CHARLESS-WAIN, noun In astronomy, seven stars in the constellation called Ursa Major, or the Great Bear.

CHARNEL-HOUSE, noun A place under or near churches, where the bones of the dead are reposited. Anciently, a kind of portico or gallery, in or near a church-yard, over which the bones of the dead were laid, after the flesh was consumed.

CHARTER-LAND, noun Land held by charter, or in soccage.

CHARTER-PARTY, noun In commerce, an agreement respecting the hire of a vessel and the freight. This is to be signed by the proprietor or master of the ship and by the merchant who hires or freights it. It must contain the name and burden of the vessel, the names of the master and freighter, the price or rate of the freight, the time of loading and unloading, and other stipulated conditions.

CHASTE-EYED, adjective Having modest eyes.

CHASTE-TREE, noun The agnus castus, or vitex; a tree that grows to the highth of eight or ten feet, producing spikes of flowers at the end of every strong shoot in autumn.

CHATTER-BOX, noun One that talks incessantly.

CHEAT-BREAD, noun Fine bread purchased, or not made in the family.

CHECK-MATE, noun

1. The movement on a chess board or in the game of chess that kills the opposite men, or hinders them from moving, so that the game is finished.

2. Defeat; overthrow.

CHECK-MATE, verb transitive To finish.

CHECKER-WORK, noun Work varied alternately as to its colors or materials; work consisting of cross lines.

CHEEK-BONE, noun The bone of the cheek.

CHEEK-TOOTH, noun The hinder tooth or tusk. Joel 1:6.

CHEESE-CAKE, noun A cake made of soft curds, sugar and butter.

CHEESE-MONGER, noun One who deals in or sells cheese.

CHEESE-PARING, noun A press, or engine for pressing curd in the making of cheese.

CHEESE-PRESS, noun A press, or engine for pressing curd in the making of cheese.

CHEESE-RENNET, noun A plant, ladies bed-straw, Galium verum.

CHEESE-VAT, noun The vat or case in which curds are confined for pressing.

CHERRY-CHEEKED, adjective Having ruddy cheeks.

CHERRY-PIT, noun A childs play, in which cherry stones are thrown into a hole.

CHERRY-TREE, noun A tree whose fruit is cherries, in the more appropriate sense of the word. The name is mostly given to the common cultivated trees, and to that which produces the black wild cherry. The wood of the latter is valued for cabinet work.

CHESS-APPLE, noun A species of wild service.

CHESS-BOARD, noun The board used in the game of chess, and from the squares of which chess has its name.

CHESS-MAN, noun A piece or puppet, for the game of chess.

CHESS-PLAYER, noun One who plays chess; one skilled din the game of chess.

CHESS-TREE, noun In ships, a piece of wood bolted perpendicularly on the side to confine the clews of the main sail.

CHEST-FOUNDERING, noun A disease in horses, like the pleurisy or peripneumony in the human body.

CHESTNUT-TREE, noun The tree which produces the chestnut. This tree grows to a great size, with spreading branches. It is one of the most valuable timber trees, as the wood is very durable, and forms in America the principal timber for fencing. The timber is also used in building, and for vessels of various kinds.

Dwarf-chestnut, or chinkapin, is another species of Fagus.

Horse-chestnut, is a tree of the genus Aesculus. The common tree of this sort is a native of the North of Asia, and admired for the beauty of its flowers. It is used for shade and ornament, and its nuts are esteemed good food for horses. The scarlet-flowering horse-chestnut is a native of Carolina, Brazil and the East, and is admired for its beauty.

The Indian Rose-chestnut, of the genus Mesua, bears a nut, roundish, pointed and marked with four elevated longitudinal sutures.

CHICK-PEA, noun A plant or pea, constituting the genus Cicer; a native of Spain, where it is used in olios. It is smaller than the common pea.

CHICK-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Alsine, which includes many species. The common chick-weed with white blossoms, affords a remarkable instance of the sleep of plants; for, at night, the leaves approach in pairs, and inclose the tender rudiments of the young shoots. The leaves are cooling and nutritive, and are deemed excellent food for persons of a consumptive habit. They are deemed useful also for swelled breasts.

CHICKEN-HEARTED, adjective Timid; fearful; cowardly.

CHICKEN-POX, noun A mild contagious eruptive disease, generally appearing in children.

CHICKLING-VETCH, noun A vetch or pea, of the genus Lathyrus, used in Germany for food, but inferior to other kinds.

CHILD-BEARING, adjective or participle present tense [See Bear.] Bearing or producing children.

CHILD-BEARING, noun The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

CHIMNEY-CORNER, noun

1. The corner of a fire-place, or the space between the fire and the sides of the fire-place. In the Northern States of America, fire-places were formerly made six or eight feet wide, or even more, and a stool was placed by the side of the fire, as a seat for children, and this often furnished a comfortable situation for idlers. As fuel has become scarce, our fire-places are contracted, till, in many or most of our dwellings, we have no chimney-corners.

2. In a more enlarged sense, the fire-side, or a place near the fire.

CHIMNEY-HOOK, noun A hook for holding pots and kettles over a fire.

CHIMNEY-MONEY, noun Hearth-money, a duty paid for each chimney in a house.

CHIMNEY-PIECE, noun An ornamental piece of wood or stone set round a fire-place.

CHIMNEY-SWEEPER, noun One whose occupation is to sweep and scrape chimneys, to clean them of the soot that adheres to their sides.

CHIN-COUGH, noun A contagious disease, often epidemic among children. It increases for some weeks, is attended with a difficulty of breathing, and in its worst stage, with a degree of convulsion. From a particular noise made in coughing, it is also called hooping cough.

CHINA-ORANGE, noun The sweet orange, said to have been originally brought from China.

CHINA-ROOT, noun The root of a species Smilax, brought from the East Indies, of a pale reddish color, with no smell, and very little taste.

CHIP-AX, noun An ax for chipping.

CHIT-CHAT, noun [See Chat, Chatter.] Prattle; familiar or trifling talk.

CHLORO-CARBONIC,

CHLORO-CARBONOUS, adjective The terms, chloro-carbonic acid and chloro-carbonous acid, are applied, the former by Thomson, and the latter by Ure, to a compound of chlorine and carbonic oxyd, formed by exposing a mixture of the two gases to the direct solar rays. It was discovered by Dr. J. Davy, and called by him phosgene gas.

CHLORO-CARBONOUS, a. The terms, chloro-carbonic acid and chloro-carbonous acid, are applied, the former by Thomson, and the latter by Ure, to a compound of chlorine and carbonic oxyd, formed by exposing a mixture of the two gases to the direct solar rays. It was discovered by Dr. J. Davy, and called by him phosgene gas.

CHOCOLATE-HOUSE, noun A house where company many be served with chocolate.

CHOCOLATE-NUT. [See Cacao.]

CHOICE-DRAWN, adjective Selected with particular care.

CHOIR-SERVICE, noun The service of singing performed by a choir.

CHOKE-CHERRY, noun The popular name of a species of wild cherry, remarkable for its astringent qualities.

CHOKE-FULL, adjective [choke and full.] Full as possible; quite full.

CHOKE-PEAR, noun

1. A kind of pear that has a rough astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the parts of the mouth.

2. An aspersion or sarcasm by which a person is put to silence.

CHOKE-WEED, noun A plant so called.

CHOP-CHURCH, noun An exchange or an exchanger of benefices.

CHOP-FALLEN, adjective Dejected; dispirited.

CHOP-HOUSE, noun A house where provision ready dressed is sold.

CHOPPING-BLOCK, noun A block on which any thing is laid to be chopped.

CHOPPING-KNIFE, noun A knife for mincing meat.

CHOREPIS-COPAL, adjective Pertaining to the power of a suffragan or local bishop.

CHRISTIAN-NAME, noun The name given in baptism, as distinct from the gentilitious or surname.

CHRISTMAS-BOX, noun A box in which little presents are deposited at Christmas.

CHRISTMAS-DAY, noun The twenty fifth day of December, when Christmas is celebrated.

CHRISTMAS-FLOWER, noun Hellebore.

CHRISTMAS-ROSE, noun A plant of the genus Helleborus, producing beautiful white flowers about Christmas.

CHRISTS-THORN, noun The Rhamnus paliurus, a deciduous shrub, a native of Palestine and the South of Europe. It has two thorns at each joint, and is supposed to have been the sort of which the crown of thorns for our Savior was made.

CHUB-FACED, adjective Having a plump round face.

CHUCK-FARTHING, noun A play in which a farthing is pitched into a hole.

CHUCKLE-HEAD, noun A vulgar word in America, denoting a person with a large head, a dunce. Bailey says, a rattling, noisy, empty fellow.

CHURCH-ALE, noun A wake or feast commemoratory of the dedication of the church.

CHURCH-ATTIRE, noun The habit in which men officiate in divine service.

CHURCH-AUTHORITY, noun Ecclesiastical power; spiritual jurisdiction.

CHURCH-BENCH, noun The seat in the porch of a church.

CHURCH-BURIAL, noun Burial according to the rites of the church.

CHURCH-DISCIPLINE, noun Discipline of the church, intended to correct the offenses of its members.

CHURCH-FOUNDER, noun He that builds or endows a church.

CHURCH-HISTORY, noun History of the Christian church; ecclesiastical history.

CHURCH-LAND, noun Land belonging to a church.

CHURCH-MEMBER, noun A member in communion with a church; a professor of religion.

CHURCH-MUSIC, noun

1. The service of singing or chanting in a church.

2. Music suited to church service.