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Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.

wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

to tap. If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. Elyot.

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

ined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

sh or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so lai…

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

oven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil. -- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bone shark (Z…

A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present. Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above. James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. ).

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

opper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. "The bosom of the ocean." Addison.

Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

A factotum. [R.] He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.