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Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.

tion of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements. -- Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as in the common logarithms, and the modulus 1.442695 instead of .43429448. -- Binary measure (…

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

is.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. Swift.

The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing…

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords. [Eng.]

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

tice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. [Australia]

Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] Thackeray.

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

, etc. (b) Blue mass. -- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These [scholarships] were the blue ribbon of the college." Farrar.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

One who boasts; a braggart.