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A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

See Tabor.

An embroidery frame. Knight. Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

A tambourine. [Obs.]

A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

tringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

tringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

To grow or make pale. Barbour.

and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. -- Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. Wharton. As to the person…

See Bourd. [Obs.] Spenser.

Same as BourrÉ\'82. [Obs.] Swift.

A size of type between bourgeous and minion.

See 1st Bourgeous.

To bud. See Bourgeon.

A combination cloak and hood worn by women. [Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc.]

An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

The act of carrying out. [R.] Bourne.