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A cofferdam. Brande & C.

A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. [R.] Shak.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

intendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop"…

arious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

-- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. -- Blue water, the open ocean. -- To look blue, to look disheartened or deje…

A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

r leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

nd for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

nt dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. Brahman bull (Zoöl.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos.

Prescott. There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.

An animal that breaks away from a herd.

nding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.

o return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report. (d) To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object. (e) To produce, as income. (f) To induce to join. -- To bring off, to bear or convey away…

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.