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To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob. To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer. This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte. The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke.…

A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

See Dengue.

hem of their Bonner's "beef" and "broth" make what brewis they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall.

Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor. [Obs.]

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.

; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery. Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat. Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson.

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

t of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton.

r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

lf. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. [U.S.] Farrow.

, s (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eagar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.

e design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.