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A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

etes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain…

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

r contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

ndulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. Blackmore.

A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

(Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

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

erbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightsha…

he parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth.

Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.