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Same as Bascinet.

A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

A sort of fine buckram.

Same as Bombazine.

Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.

The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy. [Colloq.]

whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance. Coles.

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

The quality of being cheesy.

A genus of freshwater leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The kitchen or cooking department.

Termination; ending. Bp. Hall.

Ending; forming an end; lowermost. [Obs.] "Their desinent parts, fish." B. Jonson.