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point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

le; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

h a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

f, pertaining to, or containing, boron. Boric acid, a white crystalline substance B(OH)3, easily obtained from its salts, and occurring in solution in the hot lagoons of Tuscany.

Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding. [Obs.]

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

duce; to draw; to lead; to guide. It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it. Locke. The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them. Locke.

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.

ny one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

es by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.

The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.

Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear. Pope.

A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.