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A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

n their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it. Shak. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33.

The fundament; the buttocks.

for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

ney; as, a poor box; a contribution box. Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks, Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box. J. Warton.

To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

Briefly. [Obs. or Poetic] Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief. Milton.

The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

o a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

Stiff; precise. "Buckram dames." Brooke.

perial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from its golden seal.

Base or uncurrent coin. [Obs.] And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

licsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. Tatler. -- Bux"om*ly, adv. -- Bux"om*ness, n.

The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop. -- Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree…

ixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

To clothe with a caftan. [R.] The turbaned and caftaned damsel. Sir W. Scott.

A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.

morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.