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A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]

A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.

A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

ve, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

The act of making or using braids.

s passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

ich the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

nd the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.

Hot-headed; furious. [R.] Shak.

Without understanding; silly; thougthless; witless. -- Brain"less*ness, n.

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.

In a brainsick manner.