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One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.

The investigation of life.

A view of life; that which gives such a view.

The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.

Vital statistics.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

Having two bristles.

Having two spines.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.

Blossomy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ith their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

Without blossoms.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

A nickname for a Nova Scotian.

A Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.

A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.

To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement. [Colloq. U. S.]