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A gust of wind and rain. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would…

Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

ion. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

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

with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.

usage. Bologna sausage Etym: [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent wh…

s.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.

, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.

In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.

book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

A chamber or a cottage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.] Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.