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of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

rson; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

Custody; keeping. [Obs.] Silly Faunus now within their bail. Spenser.

To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

order and balance of the country were destroyed. Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. J. S. Mill.

te or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

uctive. "Baleful enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.

p; to heap up in piles. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see. Shak.

um, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it.

Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.

The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale.

ike. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

Baptism. [Obs.] Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor.

To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name. I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Shak.

eds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

r language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.