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ry acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

re her Shak. Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise, Then cast it off to float upon the skies. Parnell.

les and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]

perfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.

na], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed…

-- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bone shark (Zoöl.), the basking shark. -- Bone spavin. See under Spavin. -- Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise. -- Bone whale (Zoöl.), a right whale. -- To be upon the bones o…

The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.

Authorship; literary skill.

quainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.] You're an absolute borachio. Congreve.

America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine.