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To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.

ld fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in…

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

r compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

A large leather vessel for beer, etc. [Obs.]

- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

c. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. -- Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. -- Blind coal, coal that burns w…

To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a…

bble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. Noble heads which have been brought to the block. E. Everett.

Gray; bluish gray. [Obs.] Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser.

Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.

which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

hteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.] -- Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations. -- Blue mantl…

he first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.

articular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.