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A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.

Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

A boxer; a pugilist. R. Browning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.

Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

e common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic. Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

or fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

nchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of rynning water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

erals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burroughs.

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. A…

all circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

See Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.

The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.