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cale, for measuring heights. -- Siphon barometer, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley…

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

icum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). Basil thyme, a name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. -- Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family.…

that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size th…

ixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

A child's hornbook. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

See Brooklime.

A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.

The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom.

preliminary; previously; aforetime. They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking. Hooker.

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.

Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

A sweet or loving look. [Obs.] Spenser.

ion; faith. No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker.

alvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.