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Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.…

oyed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.

In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

Furnished with bowstring.

To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

Furnished with bracts.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

leys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

l (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Brain fever (Med.), fever in which the brain is speci…

Hot-headed; furious. [R.] Shak.

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.