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A chapel for dissenters. [Eng.]

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.

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.

A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." Sterne.

B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.

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

me of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

with membranaceous, inflated pods. -- Bladder worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wra…

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.

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

led in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.