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A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

To manage, wield, or direct. "Thus must thou thy body bear." Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct. Hath he borne himself penitently in prison Shak.

The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.

tter; to move with fluttering agitation. -- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. -- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

e human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

g in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. [Obs.]

, an expression used to designate one's wife. My dear, my better half (said he), I find I must now leave thee. Sir P. Sidney. -- To be better off, to be in a better condition. -- Had better. (See under Had).

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.

ome person designated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bil is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is,…

elements. -- Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as in the common logarithms, and the modulus 1.442695 instead of .43429448. -- Binary measure (Mus.), measure divisible by two or four; common time. -- Binary no…

To tie; to confine by any ligature. They that reap must sheaf and bind. Shak.

bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

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

have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

ned by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.