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A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

c*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

To explore for botanical purposes.

Purchased; bribed.

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

to bring to a required form. To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters…

al intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. Locke. Some who spurs had first braced on. Sir W. Scott.

e an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

thou mayst brain him. Shak. It was the swift celerity of the death . . . That brained my purpose. Shak.

of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

e, C16H14O5, extracted from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

e of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.] Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9.

an wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies. [Written also brezilin.]

e, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.

To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. Katharine, break thy mind to me. Shak.

Utterance; communication or publicity by words. I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak.