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A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing…

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. Hence: The pattern on shape of a hat. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Shak.

d remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a vari…

t iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [Colloq.]

t of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

ntaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]