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ing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrücken), in Bavaria.

rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.…

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak.

lue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any purita…

A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]

also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.…

To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.…

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

Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

A challenge; a defiance; bravado. [Obs.] Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; And so in this, to bear me down with braves. Shak.

The act of braving; defiance; bravado. [Obs.] Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons.

A bravado; a boast. With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings. Chapman.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

A firearm which receives its load at the breech. For cavalry, the revolver and breechloader will supersede the saber. Rep. Sec. War (1860).