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An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

berance; to be protuberant or round. Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. Woodward.

To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

iginally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.

A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

secluded or private walk. He moves afterward in by-walks. Dryden.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. W. H. Ward. 2 Kings vi. 25.

ginally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

er of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [Colloq.] Some silly, doting, brainless calf. Drayton.