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The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. [Now chiefly poetic]

A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

sperity. Barrow. Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. -- Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around…

The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

Anything that heals, soothes, or restores. Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -…

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman.

ave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. Gwilt.

ke a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

. [Obs.] We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here. Massinger.

cotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

g supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

A vein or dike crossing a lode.

le classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.