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A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

ually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.

The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, an…

boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. Brahman bull (Zoöl.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos.

A quick motion; a start. [Obs.] Sackville.

To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. Shak.

To transact business for another. [R.] Brome.

Subdued; humbled; contrite. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17.

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.

To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.] Sackville.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

n with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

e sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper.

. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.