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Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

g, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.] Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a mem…

One of the Eurylaimidæ, a family of East Indian passerine birds.

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

See Bullhead, 1 (b).

Snapdragon.

mmable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.

ious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially w…

See Caoutchin.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

loth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer. [Colloq. U. S.]