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The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

on of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.

A bruise; a wound. Breach for breach, eye for eye. Lev. xxiv. 20

To whip on the breech. [Obs.] Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away, whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience, he would have breeched me. Old Play.

A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.

on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe.

hmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.

ualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty. Bright as an angel new-dropped from the sky. Parnell.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow. "Her brimful eyes." Dryden.

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

matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill.

A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

rument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

arts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. -- Bulb of a hair, the "root," or part whence the hair originates. -- Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. -- Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in…

To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes" Shak. -- To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.