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A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

Having two hands; two-handed.

An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

id causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

Bloom; a blossoming. [Prov. Eng.] All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. T. Hardy.

A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. Well struck ! there was blow for blow. Shak.

To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value. [U. S.]

A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi Tomlinson.

tain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.

That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.