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See Yataghan.

serve. The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

ul bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with no trump, 10.

Pertaining to a royal court. Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities. Landor. Aulic council (Hist.), a supreme court of the old German empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in…

Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant.

ch occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, "primage and average a…

Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.

The bleating of a sheep. Marryat.

Baboonish behavior. Marryat.

d like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. Shak. The chalk cliffs which back the beach. Huxley.

ack stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.

d baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

li, entitled "Baha 'u 'llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.…

The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya. [Written also Baldur.]

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]

h receives money for safe keeping. -- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.

In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.