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A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

ing more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin,…

barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas…

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.…

ct settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]

eep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.

it. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

ier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

or a separate part; to diverge. -- To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. Spectator.

A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. Hot braves like thee may fight. Dryden.

To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. Heard ye the din of battle bray Gray.

The wood of the oriental Cæsalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. Katharine, break thy mind to me. Shak.

work. -- Breast pang. See Angina pectoris, under Angina. -- To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession.

hich closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

on and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.