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certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

llusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.

mber of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

An officer who has charge of a ballot box. [Obs.] Harrington.

alsam of Peru, a reddish brown, syrupy balsam, obtained from a Central American tree ( Myroxylon Pereiræ and used as a stomachic and expectorant, and in the treatment of ulcers, etc. It was long supposed to be a product of Peru. -- Balsam of Tolu, a reddish or yellowish brown semisolid or solid balsam, obtained from a…

s a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.

rature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

ombined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

To grind or form the edge of to an angle. Moxon.

Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. [Univ. of Oxford, Eng.]

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.