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To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.

r stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front. Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; -- usually, the harbor line.

The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

d or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

To bully. [Obs.] She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me. Foote.

A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. Shak.

Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page.

. -- To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes" Shak. -- To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

ion, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.

The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.

A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

c which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6.

An alkaloid resembing physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.