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r calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

s; to die by violence. "Cæsar must bleed." Shak. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

o wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope

To obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. Pope.

anding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

Hard to impress or penetrate. [R.] I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions. Pope.

ibbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. Pope.

Filled with book learning. [R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.

preciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]

To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. Pope.

rom his den; the herd bounded across the plain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

One that brays like an ass. Pope.

truggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

in churches, for any public or private purpose. [Eng.] Apostolical brief, a letter of the pope written on fine parchment in modern characters, subscribed by the secretary of briefs, dated "a die Nativitatis," i. e., "from the day of the Nativity," and sealed with the ring of the fisherman. It differs from a bull, in it…