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To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.

useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

n, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.

had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

ds. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

o ruin. With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden.

Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state." Tillotson.

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

A lawyer's brief. [R.] Hudibras.

Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

utchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. -- Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

at which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. I would sing my song without a burden. Shak.

In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.

d may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or to prevent a chang in prices. A cabal is a secret association of a few individuals who seek by cunning practices to obtain office and power. A faction is a larger body than a cabal, employed for selfish purposes…

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

l, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.