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A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

d of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.

s ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke'…

he "double blank"; the "six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

ding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.

rate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.

Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.

: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive f…

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. In God we boast all the day long. Ps. xiiv. 8

, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.