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To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.

ficer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind 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 expl…

iloquent; bombastic. [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.

Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.

A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." Shak. Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller.

Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement. Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. Dorset. The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. Dryden.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. In spite of our host's bravado. Irving.

Time to breathe; respite; pause. Give me some breath, some little pause. Shak.

The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

An epitome. Each woman is a brief of womankind. Overbury.

lding anything. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

. -- Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. -- Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization. -- Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt. -- Brine pump (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the…

, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

A spit. [Obs.] He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon.

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.