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To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. There let the pealing organ blow. Milton.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

ation (as the Monday before Lent). -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of p…

To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.

A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a go…

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.

ith a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.

that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.

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.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed. Shak. Greyhounds of the best breed. Carpenter.