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A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

Bulk; volume. [Scot.]

A curved handle. Sir W. Scott.

To make or get ready. Sir W. Scott.

imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts. Locke.

A chamber or a cottage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.

traightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.

. . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

ge of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott.

their infancy, have very little feet. Locke. Some who spurs had first braced on. Sir W. Scott.

A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott.

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. [Scot.] Burns.

her different strands. A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott.

he organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding. " My brain is too dull." Sir W. Scott.

mpest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. "Branches of knowledge." Prescott. It is a branch and parcel of mine oath. Shak.

ading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.