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to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.

e plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.

the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts. Locke.

ant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay.

ing 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.

. A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.

wed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

rk, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

istling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay.

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.

ken words at parting. Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of…

s depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

ok restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.

human; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.

e beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.

Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon. "Buffoon stories." Macaulay. To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances. Melmoth.

A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc. [India] Macaulay.

s and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery. The Dutch whalers and herring busses. Macaulay.

To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay. [Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. Ford.