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o skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.

To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.

cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.

Twice folded together. Henslow.

A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.

That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. Poets are far rarer births that kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. King.

ure; to have the property of so doing. At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Prov. xxiii. 32.

calcined magnesia. -- Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Or…

A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyst…

e alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.

cluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

cking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

fect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.