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means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

ng of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well- bottomed.

The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

nch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

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

e Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

iselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.

holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron.

Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.

A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.