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Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.

owance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]

To pelt or strike with anything rolled. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

ains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

one's bridge (Elec.), a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone.…

A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

sed flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

The Malayan sun bear.

al species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

To alarm with idle phantoms.

A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. [U.S.] Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver. -- Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also sulky plow.

One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.