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rst, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines c…

by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.

A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tena…

Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

The young of an animal. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak .

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. Arrange the board and brim the glass. Tennyson.

ze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

mportunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.