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A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak.

uilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.

Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.

The practice or tenets of a bigot.

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. -- To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause…

ancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.

A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. [Australia]

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

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.

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. [Obs.] Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger. Bacon. I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. Reliq. Wot.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.