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specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.

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 a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

A villain, or tenant in villenage.

and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

un in the bow for firing while chasing another vessel. Totten. - Bow piece, a piece of ordnance carried at the bow of a ship. -- On the bow (Naut.), on that part of the horizon within 45º on either side of the line ahead. Totten.

The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11

To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden.

To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

Motionless; destitute of breezes. A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul. Shenstone.