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The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. "The birthplace of valor." Burns.

showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessa…

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

visions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3.

ge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

how beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers. A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan.

uished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy…

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

A country of central Europe.

n a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.

mon gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

on to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the d…

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.