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Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

ic enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

To make murmuring or humming sound. Jamieson.

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

To come in violent contact with something; to thump. "Bumping and jumping." Southey.

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

The state of privilege of a burgess. South.

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. [Colloq.] To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. -- To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed.

A donkey. [Southern U.S.]

o pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

s vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. -- Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serval. -- Bush chat (Zoöl.), a bird of the…

One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

ation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South.

us, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.

or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress.