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A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

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.

settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

wls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.…

A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer.

- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Brain fever (Med.), fe…

To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. -- n. (Anat.)

To cover or ornament with brass. Chapman.

The wood of the oriental Cæsalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.