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some other animals. Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak.

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

To report; to noise abroad. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.

n heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him. Latimer. In single combat thou shalt buckle with me. Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.

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.

An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.] The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound. Skelton.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

To send off abruptly or without ceremony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

r which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. I would sing my song without a burden. Shak.

f burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

lender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.