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uban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

omething suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet. And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

Base, n. -- Foundation muslin, an open-worked gummed fabric used for stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc. -- Foundation school, in England, an endowed school. -- To be on a foundation, to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.

ir; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. Milton.

rom a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton.

Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.

A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.] Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.

material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. [Written also rouche.]

bus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.

Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.

erhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist. Bale.