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The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.

A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

oup uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift.

ll cistern at the back of a stove, or a group of pipes set in the fire box of a stove or furnace, through which water circulates and is heated.

A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

Of a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of from the external jet of mixed gas and air. -- Back"-fir`ing, n.

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

odies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

ven by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

Misery; Let now your bliss be turned into bale. Spenser.

uence; destructive. "Baleful enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.

To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.