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reparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

nd made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. "The birthplace of valor." Burns.

An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.

Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.

Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etching), to corrode or e…

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

anuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

s.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

ants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.