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Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

n (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. -- To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us " Shak. -- To bite the tongue, to keep silence. Shak.

Mendacious boasting; falcefood; humbug.

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.

nsecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. W. Irving.

To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To hum; to buzz. [R.]

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

To hum; to boom.

A humming or buzzing.

ong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

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