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(a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive fo…

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. In God we boast all the day long. Ps. xiiv. 8

as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

r the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.

A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.

larged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.

rt of a boat; the bow oar. Bow chaser (Naut.), a gun in the bow for firing while chasing another vessel. Totten. - Bow piece, a piece of ordnance carried at the bow of a ship. -- On the bow (Naut.), on that part of the horizon within 45º on either side of the line ahead. Totten.

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.

e of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]

A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

doctrine and fellowship. Side by side with these various shades of High and Low Church, another party of a different character has always existed in the Church of England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad Church, by its friends; Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies. Its distinctiv…