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Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

iety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Accomplished; versed. [Archaic] Spenser.

lling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

best very short. -- For best, finally. [Obs.] "Those constitutions . . . are now established for best, and not to be mended." Milton. -- To get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- To make the best of. (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "L…

Furnished with, or having, two bracts.

used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.

Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

lls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. The black or sight of the eye. Sir K. Digby.

One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.

To make agreeable and enticing. Mustering all her wiles, With blandished parleys. Milton.

Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "Cæsar must bleed." Shak. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.

ociate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] Holinshed.