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still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unwort…

and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

Roasting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

taining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia. Balearic crane. (Zoöl.) See Crane.

A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. Barbary ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

its, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.

o be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues. Dryden.