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To fall out; to terminate friendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

A steep place endangering the neck.

oduce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.

bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as yo…

incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

Dandified; foppish.

ct of the genus Simulium, allied to the black fly of the North. It is often extremely abundant in the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.),…

foon. "Buffoon stories." Macaulay. To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances. Melmoth.

at causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The gre…

ls having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.

The huso or salmon of the Danube.

sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

positing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body.…