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r any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.

ng with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

e. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, --…

the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

nce . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

ngle word; the slightest effort; a triffle. A breath can make them, as a breath has made. Goldsmith.

al, and the offender may be indicted. Bouvier. The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe. Goldsmith.

. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

iot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.

Embroidery. [Obs.] Of goldsmithrye, of browdying, and of steel. Chaucer.

arcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith.

Made of buff leather. Goldsmith.

d clothes. The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.

ets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant] Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. Goldsmith.

st that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

erb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.

ublication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. Goldsmith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. Hawthorne.

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. Goldsmith. The cant of any profession. Dryden.