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

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

ed 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.]

A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]

room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. [Also spelt kalsomine.]

ng around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.] Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. -- To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and pre…

e ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin.] Crobb.

lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters. [Spelt also seriph.] Savage.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

hick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also cirrhose.]

the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk. [India] Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.…

nd forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

Devil; -- spelt also deel. [Scot.] Deil's buckie. See under Buckie.

ct in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority. [Frequently, but improperly, spelt diocess.]

gular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay.

One of the testicles of a hart or stag. [Spelt also doucet.] B. Jonson.