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-- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird…

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.

The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

er. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression…

A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygmæus); also applied to a larger species (Ægoceras leucophæus); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zoöl.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zoöl.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Call…

The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

s; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak.

Either of two large antelopes (Boöcercus eurycercus of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.

The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.…

os; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

An ornamental knot, with projecting lops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.