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The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

at As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burroughs.

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. Raymond.

f stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper.

xex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. -- Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. -- Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for…

To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.] Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. Hamilton.

to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.

ertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

iage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. "A cab came clattering up." Thackeray.

le talk; silly prattle. There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon. Thackeray.

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. [Cant] Thackeray.

Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray. Lindley.

nts of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

oy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [Colloq.] Some silly, doting, brainless calf. Drayton.

y and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy. Thackeray.

-- To call back, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon back. -- To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses. -- To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. -- To call in, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, t…

or employment; vocation; business; trade. The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray.