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A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

-- Sun bear (Zoöl.), a species of bear (Helarctos Malayanus) native of Southern Asia and Borneo. It has a small head and short neck, and fine short glossy fur, mostly black, but brownish on the nose. It is easily tamed. Called also bruang, and Malayan bear. -- Sun beetle (Zoöl.), any small lustrous beetle of the genu…

An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense. Bacon.

cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

llers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.

rch, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullnes…

Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid. [They] now swim in joy. Milton.

lord mayor when he goes abroad. -- Sword belt, a belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side. -- Sword blade, the blade, or cutting part, of a sword. -- Sword cane, a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. -- Sword dance. (a) A dance in which swords are brandished and clas…

a wild beast. They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. Macaulay.

Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn. -- Te*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Te*na"cious*ness, n.

A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

Earthborn; produced by the earth.

One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

Open attestation; profession. [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach. Milton.

A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

on of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.

A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. Are we born to thrum caps or pick straw Quarles.

An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthæ. See Aphthæ.

Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute. Tibial spur (Zoöl.), a spine frequently borne on the tibia of insects. See Illust. under Coleoptera.