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A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

nance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produc…

A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

; as, the bonds of fellowship. A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. Burke.

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

A kind of embroidery made with a complicated sewing machine, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.

A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.

Kind; bountiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.

he implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.

A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

Payment of any kind. Bouvier.

Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower.

A kind of organ stop.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.