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A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.] The ladies were very blue and well informed. Thackeray. Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite. -- Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope…

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; Crabb.

varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.

eral species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.

r of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry. -- Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.

To abbreviate. [Obs.]

An abbreviature; an abbreviation. [Obs.] Johnson.

right; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe.

A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

chinery. -- Brussels point. See Point lace. -- Brussels sprouts (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground, a gro…

The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

A place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery. Crabb. And certain salt fats or bullaries. Bills in Chancery.

A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.