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Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.

One who attempts; one who essays anything.

Disposed to attempt; adventurous. [Obs.] Daniel.

Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Attire; adornment.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxilia…

Self-intoxication. See Auto-intoxication.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.

Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]

See Ax, Axman.

Babble. Hawthorne.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

Respects; compliments. [Obs.]

A pie; baked food. [Obs.] Gen. xl. 17. Shak.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

The act of baptizing.[R.]

The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

ubstructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.