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A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.

ith an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [R.] B. Jonson.

fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

A shield. [Obs.]

A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

iscernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. As late the boatman hies him home. Percival.

eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson.

to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

r. -- Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. -- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for co…

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

rating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. I see a great officer broken. Swift.