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Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

erformance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

n (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4).…

Furnished with bowstring.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.

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

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

Furnished with bracts.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

An ancient instrument of torture. Holinshed. Air brake. See Air brake, in the Vocabulary. -- Brake beam or Brake bar, the beam that connects the brake blocks of opposite wheels. -- Brake block. (a) The part of a brake holding the brake shoe. (b) A brake shoe. -- Brake shoe or Brake rubber, the part of a brake agains…

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. The quivering lance which he brandished bright. Drake.