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A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to chang…

Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.

See Baudekin. [Obs.] Shirley.

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

om others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aëriform body. "A body of cold air." Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. Milton.

re are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

fferent parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.

ance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.

tain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

ice formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.

Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." Stoddard.

holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley.

ling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.…

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