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A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.

That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.

en allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.

i. 8. -- Bill of entry, a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation. -- Bill of exceptions. See under Exception. -- Bill of exchange (Com.), a written order or request from one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay to some person designated a c…

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

An aëroplane with two main supporting surfaces one above the other.

Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.

A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.

xygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

ggy 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 in numbers.

the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

iece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.

, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.