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To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.

A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [Colloq. U. S.]

A toady. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest. The country is bordered by a broad tract called the "hot region." Prescott. Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf. Sir W. Raleigh.

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

n, 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.

the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

kes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.

he water of a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth.

The breech mechanism in breech-loading small arms and certain special guns, as automatic and machine guns; --used frequently in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech- loading shotguns are locked, unlocked, or rotated to loading position.

The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.