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A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.] a.

The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

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.

of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at Shak. This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak.

Capable of being bribed. A more bribable class of electors. S. Edwards.

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. Arrange the board and brim the glass. Tennyson.

A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. -- Burning glass, a conxex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. -- Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from…