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A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. Pairy bluebird (Zoöl.), a brilliant Indian or East Indian bird of the genus Irena, of several species.…

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.

The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

nners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda…

inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in Ind…

wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.

er ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic…

A small fancy box or dish for bonbons.

A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

A freeholder on a small scale. [Norway] Emerson.

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

A small West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

f a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.