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The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

ore bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful. And night shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.

roken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.

-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.

To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pump…

an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.]

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.

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

inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. Knight.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

tised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.