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To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; Crabb.

Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold. Within the bosom of that church. Hooker.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt.

A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.

To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.

Boyhood. [Obs.] T. Warton.

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

quare-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

learly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. A broad mixture of falsehood. Locke.

To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. Sir W. Scott.

To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.