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a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of from the external jet of mixed gas and air. -- Back"-fir`ing, n.

A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

g overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

ng it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

cs; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

To bequeath, or leave as a legacy. [Obs.] "All I have to bequest." Gascoigne.

The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly.

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To…

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

len; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.

, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and…

apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.

A sharp bit or snaffle. Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit. Gascoigne.

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

t." Swift. O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed! Gascoigne.