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See Habergeon.

Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A harbinger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

A fine white wine produced on the estate of Schloss (or Castle) Johannisberg, on the Rhine.

Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

See Ramberge.

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.

Ambergris. [Obs.] You that smell of amber at my charge. Beau. & Fl.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

anism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

Microörganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. Sternberg.

To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impu…

See Bergander.

ame given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.

dogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.

See Bergamot.

roduced. Bunsen's burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at th…

A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface. Kane.