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A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

ncient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding. [Obs.]

vely used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc. Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.…

A game at cards similar to bluff. Chesterfield.

a boar. The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer.

e best is the heartwood of Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.

eat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.

To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.] The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle. Pepys.

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.