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An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

To send off abruptly or without ceremony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. I would sing my song without a burden. Shak.

of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

ity. [Colloq.] The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with bushels of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces. Dryden.

Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

d of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scrafing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.

An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. Bp. Beveridge.

ted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" Newton.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. Brougham.

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. "Calm was the day." Spenser. Now all is calm, and fresh, and still. Bryant.

A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.

A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

arrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bac…

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath.