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ard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.] Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker.

ingle man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. Dryden.

To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. Shak.

cure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.…

To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] To blush and beautify the cheek again. Shak.

The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.

1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

ss, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of si…

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]

water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.

o view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden.

an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. -- To make bold, to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.

To make bold; to encourage; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.

A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. Gay.