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a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small ship stick.

ble of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic. Milton. The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fund…

government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

uring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill.

y particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." Prescott.

A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.

The radical (C4H7O) of butyric acid.

and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. -- To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. -- To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. -- To buy the refusal (of any…

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala [Obs.] Hakewill.

A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediæval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of…

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. "Studious cabalists." Swift.