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ertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.

On the way; destined. [Colloq.]

veral species of botfly, especially those larvæ which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]

Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

A brief and pertinent mode of speaking. [R.]

and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

ion; discord, either between individuals or in the state. I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke.

), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. -- Burning glass, a conxex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. -- Burning house (Metal.), the fur…

An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

See Byzantine.

A packman or itinerant huckster.

The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.

A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.