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A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

n the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

on of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley. The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. G. Eliot.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

s of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.

e of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. Elyot.

ere are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. Shak.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

Of the color of buff. Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. -- Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a…

n of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; -- much used as a lap robe in sleighs.

f a bull, or a blunder. Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish. Milton.

To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]