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each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.

Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.] The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound. Skelton.

A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois. [R.] Addison.

best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

. Busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Religious motives . . . are so busy in the heart. Addison.

ways. Hooker. There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses. Addison.

ring; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

e butt of the company. I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. Addison.

The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.

n the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations. Bacon. The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.

A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

ne who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

d custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, "The itch for writing". Addison.

A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

See Caddice.

A caddice. See Caddice.

ate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.

To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. If you would but call me Rosalind. Shak. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5.

c made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak.