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A boxer; a pugilist. R. Browning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton.

slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak.

a (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. Bud moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.…

A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.

ity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

g. Compare 5. Long labors both by sea and land he bore. Dryden. By land, by water, they renew the charge. Pope.

A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.

r or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" Newton.

The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

mative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.

report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

bject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.

y . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar. J. H. Newman.

pe, in the general sense of southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod.