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A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. 2 Kings ii. 15.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

ly. The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. Locke. Some who spurs had first braced on. Sir W. Scott.

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

used by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. J. Fletcher.

h, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

cky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

o break, and night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth.

Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. [U.S.] Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.

To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.

ly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.