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A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

The state or quality of being beastly.

The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

Same as Benzole.

Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coördinates.

Corporeality. Minsheu.

used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

The quality or state of having bristles.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in. Totten.

Quality of being burly.

Butchery quality.

Caballine aloes. Caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. -- Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.