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To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.

A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible 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.

A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus.

the flues. -- Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. -- Barrel vault. See under Vault.

-- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

ne composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

dent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

e for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing f…

A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.