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A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

ng; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.

"A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequen…

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

A hindrance or disappointment; a check. A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker. South.

A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

- Balsam of Tolu, a reddish or yellowish brown semisolid or solid balsam, obtained from a South American tree ( Myxoxylon toluiferum.). It is highly fragrant, and is used as a stomachic and expectorant. -- Balsam tree, any tree from which balsam is obtained, esp. the Abies balsamea. -- Canada balsam, Balsam of fir, C…

cians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert.

The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]

A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, its…

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

he bare necessaries of life." Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. [In this sense, commonly written bass.]