Search the Dictionary

vibrates. -- Beam compass, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points; -- used for drawing or describing large circles. -- Beam engine, a steam engine having a working beam to transmit power, in distinction from one which has its piston rod attached directly t…

son who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

en he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.] Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

d band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

hall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

[Cf. Biography.] A biographical sketch. [Rare]

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

The bladder ketmie.

eer from her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. Dryden.

oad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

tructure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly…

See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have…

sually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.