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To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64.

h block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.

g, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuba…

Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden.

Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.

Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies; fly blown.

ous; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.]

more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

rite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a…

y laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.

cases at law. Jacob. To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer. This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte. The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke.

of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. -- Bond timber, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.