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A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produc…

A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison.

brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

d boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

A women who plays in comedy.

A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

See Iolite.

Cowardice. [Obs.]

See Kauri.

A custodian. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie Dinmont.

centric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

In God's name; certainly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.

Disembodied. [R.]