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The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

Same as Brun, a brook. [Scot.]

Stiff; precise. "Buckram dames." Brooke.

tablish, or produce by using appropriate means. Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. Shak.

See Book muslin.

-- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

d to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.

emony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].

A small brook. [Scot.] Burns.

culiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.

annot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways. Hooker. There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses. Addison.

A globule of metal remaining onan assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American comp…

incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.

path; an obscure way; indirect means. God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.