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ition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

thin certain limits. -- Ball bearings, a mechanical device for lessening the friction of axle bearings by means of small loose metal balls. -- Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a ball, as distinguished from a blank cartridge, containing only powder. -- Ball cock, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by t…

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. To relieve the tediumbams. Prof. Wilson.

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman.

A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. Baxter.

Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]

The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

nd gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

under Cleavage. -- Basal plane (Crystallog.), one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.] A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. Fairfax.

The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax.

A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

A kind of pickax.