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branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

y bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

he act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift.

The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] Gwilt.

light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.

A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

The bell, or boom, of the bittern The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Wordsworth.

us, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon…

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi.

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

ly of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

ise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.