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Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

Supported; upheld.

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens.

imp. & p. p. of Breed. Bred out, degenerated. "The strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey." Shak. -- Bred to arms. See under Arms. -- Well bred. (a) Of a good family; having a good pedigree. "A gentleman well bred and of good name." Shak. [Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] (b) Well brought up, as…

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Set with briers. Chatterton.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.

Fretfully; spitefully.

A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales. [Written also kantry.]

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.

ng, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak.

ked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.