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A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

A factotum. [R.] He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils…

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

cal councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

One who brags; a boaster.

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

itution are broad enough to include the case. D. Daggett. In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. E. Everett.

A wild duck (Aythya, or Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

ting of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

its of character. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. That April morn Of this the very brother. Wordsworth.

the countenance. To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow. Milton. He told them with a masterly brow. Milton.

of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

A hound for hunting deer. Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal household. [Eng.]

ry b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the…

B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

structing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall.