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A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

terial used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

To bilge, as a ship; to founder. And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. Broome.

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me was buoyant. Dryden.

portion; a division; a compartment. That little canton of land called the "English pale" Davies. There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. Bp. Burnet.

A leap or caper, as in dancing. "With lofty turns and caprioles." Sir J. Davies.

ce obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.

A rodent of the genera cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cabaya). Cavies are natives of South America. Water cavy (Zoöl.), The capybara.

bs.] Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

mely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.

dred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. Sir J. Davies.

compact; covenant; treaty or league. [Obs.] The concord made between Henry and Roderick. Davies.

icular object. -- Concrete quantity, a physical object or a collection of such objects. Davies & Peck. -- Concrete science, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws. -- Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides continuously up or down, as dis…

e personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

ural effect. They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. Sir J. Davies.

evants; re currence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

To graze. [Obs.] Sir. L. Davies.

Church lands. [Ireland] [Obs.] Sir J. Davies.

urden. Dryden. (b) (Shipping) A ship's lading, when it consists of heavy goods; or, the heaviest part of a ship's cargo. (c) (Railroad) The weight of rolling stock, the live weight being the load. Knight. -- Dead wind (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course. -- To be dead, to die. [Obs.] I dem…