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-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail. Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. Donne.

Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm. W. Irving.

To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail. Balanced valve. See Balance valve, under Balance, n.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

See Bail, v. t., to lade.

A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

See Bailey.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

The Indian fig. See Banyan. Banian days (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.

e genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (H. Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.