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The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]

ylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

iciently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

rsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen. [Also spelt arseniuretted.]

shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

ious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A halfpenny. [Spelt also baubee.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

An exclamation used to startle or frighten. [Spelt also boh and boo.]

d the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] Tomlinson.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

d by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]