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rilliant color; of lively hue or appearance. Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. Pope.

ts on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.

Boldness; impudence; "brass." Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. Pope. Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium. -- Bronze age, an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze. -- Bronze powder, a metallic powder, used with…

A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

ioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.

To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

s terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.

ideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

e." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals 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…

on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

ry speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.

A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.

To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope.

fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope.

ater. Shak. Burning with high hope. Byron. The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. Pope. The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.

rs, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. "The bushing alders." Pope.