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Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as f…

That which, or one who, is claimed or appealed to in support of opinions, actions, measures, etc. Hence:

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

To come to pass; to happen. I have revealed . . . the discord which befell. Milton.

o show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed. All the names in the country betray great antiquity. Bryant.

One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [Obs. or Archaic] Addison.

rted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.

tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.

overed near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

A dealer in books.