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A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. Reason and morals and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Byron.

Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.

when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. Compton Reade.

It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

rranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where eac…

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

-- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.]

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

ions, and operations of the mind; consciousness; se Tut, I am in 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 enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

(Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.