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veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its s…

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.…

A writer in short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

nate friendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

r; resembling breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

See Brite, v. i.

ll of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth.

Subdued; humbled; contrite. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17.

e quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

als. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. -- Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. W. Irving.

A little bud springing from a parent bud. We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin.

ntermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.

A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]