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A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n.

mortgage. -- Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. -- Stock broker. See Stockbroker.

One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It…

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

ve commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.

unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

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

closed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

quid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.

The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

o bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton.

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Obs.] Raleigh.

In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them both. Milton.

o the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die.

aid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.