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A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.

A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher. Thackeray.

t is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious.

A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.

y at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

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.

A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. Pope.

A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. W. Irving.

Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

A kind of meteor; a bolis.

A kind of large knife resembling a machete. [Phil. Islands]