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ild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

ough their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts. Locke.

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.

Splendor; brightness. [Poetic] Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. Milton.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak.

A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. "A suit of buff." Shak.

merican shrub (Pyrularia oleifera); also, the shrub itself; oilnut. -- Buffalo robe, the skin of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; -- much used as a lap robe in sleighs.

des building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural. Hosking.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

ind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

tructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases.

ntleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.

A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light- colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.