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Of an azure color; sky-blue. "The azured harebell." Shak.

The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.

s Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.…

John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.

A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

d the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

rkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis or Caprovis montana).

A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. Marryat.

of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

en heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous sha…

ning to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.

(Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

(Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning.…

give promise, as by or with flowers. A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan.

A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.