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explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Dermestes lardarius) which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's self or property from harm or less. [Colloq…

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

A blow; a stroke. [Scot.] H. Miller.

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

se filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

To curse; to invoke evil upon. Sir W. Scott.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.

arred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

cum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). Basil thyme, a name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. -- Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family.…

The language spoken by the Basque people.

xture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.