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To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

ds, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.

To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.

; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.

To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

from contact; by reverse movement. The angel of the Lord . . . came, and rolled back the stone from the door. Matt. xxvii. 2.

A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.

s, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

mporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

epare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.

The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale.

who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

y used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton. -- Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required. -- Blank bar (Law). See Blank. -- Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument. -- In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to p…

he purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was st…

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

racts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.