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A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk. Pepys.

b. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

te-headed eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.

common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

rader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

tes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain w…

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities. --Barn"storm`ing, n. [Theatrical Cant]

practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

dulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. Blackmore.