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fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

her's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

us; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] Thackeray.

shness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.

A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. Raymond.

A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher. Thackeray.

bbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.] The ladies were very blue and well informed. Thackeray. Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite. -- Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygmæus); also applied t…

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.

e color, as some roses and other flowers. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. T. Gray.

d fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "Bobbing and courtesying." Thackeray.

Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

o sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. -- Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exerci…

p, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

of the room. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt. Drayton.

A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

ill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.