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lack, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

aspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name Dr. W. Bever…

Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters.

Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden.

of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass. -- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambit…

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.

found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

at space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

e part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] Chaucer.

he act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar. The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer.

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. -- Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.