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explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

ing two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Shak.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

Having two feet; two-footed. By which the man, when heavenly life was ceased, Became a helpless, naked, biped beast. Byrom.

Having two feet; biped.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

ecies are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. -- n.

the good in mocking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.