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A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds

on a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

hide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

Blusterous. Shak.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe.