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In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

s of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. -- Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious r…

A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

e; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]

A bugbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.] Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek. Shak.

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

ty. Bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

t, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidæ).

a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the ancho…

its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

uty, or mission. The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.

nfinite power, to guide her in all her ways. Hooker. There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses. Addison.