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ttier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

rly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [Written also Bosphorus.]

so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

l, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.

A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the ha…

Armor for the arm; vantbrace.

An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.