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orseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury. -- Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat. -- Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously…

on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo. K…

To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. Swift.

ich lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.

ament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak.

"white rent", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

Hurt; injury. [Obs.] Spenser.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.

Causing blast or injury. [Obs.] Boyle.

Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything; that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation. He shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish. Lev. xiv. 10. The reliefs of an envious m…

cle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

n execution. [Obs.] Be brought to bodily act. Shak. Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.

by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

me or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6.…

It is often extremely abundant in the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two…

A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.