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A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob.

ed by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

ess; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

ed for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

rov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum. -- Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale. -- Bog ore. (Min.) (a) An ore…

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

unity of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

To swell; to puff. Holland.

A kind of large knife resembling a machete. [Phil. Islands]

An exchange for the transaction of business. [Sp. Amer. & Phil. Islands]

en disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.

Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

Manured with bone; as, boned land.

The manuring of land with bones.

Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.