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A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Bulk; volume. [Scot.]

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.

Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.

l occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. [R.] Marlowe.

varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

n Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.

trical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.

ry to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed. [U.S.] --…