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hat its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

o as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.

n, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

rface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.

molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.

nimated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion. Bacon. Not to bow and bias their opinions. Fuller.

ul. To box off (Naut.), to turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback. -- To box the compass (Naut.), to name the thirty-two points of the compass in their order.

er heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.

r Archaic as applied to material things.] Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth. Bacon. It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall. Pepys.

me bankrupt. He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty. Bacn.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed. Bacon.

The quantity brewed at once. A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon.

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.