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guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.

as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

at east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

ed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

Free from bushes; bare. O'er the long backs of the bushless downs. Tennyson.

ather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compac…

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

A sharp-pointed piece or iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a nore or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

efall him. -- To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back. -- To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses. -- To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. -- To call in, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulat…

lender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

-- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. -- To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

d the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.

A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. Black canker. See under Black.

An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.

Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window. Canted column (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.

nt of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.