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A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass…

Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss.

To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

To take a bonnet from; to take off one's bonnet; to uncover; as, to unbonnet one's head. Sir W. Scott.

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak.

The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

Vagabondage.

To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Vagabondage.

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

The vertebræ of the back. [Prov. Eng.] Dunglison.

The huckle bone. [Obs.]

The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

-- followed by to. "Injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to our stricter principles." Gibbon.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

on; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt. In his name I absolve your perjury. Gibbon.

Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. Gibbon.

itory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.