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The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. Bouvier.

A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.

A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking. Numb. xxii. 30. [Cant] Balaam basket or box (Print.), the receptacle for rejected articles. Blackw. Mag.

vereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookkeeping), a paper showing the balances of the open accounts of a business, the debit and credit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balances correctly taken. -- Balance thermometer, a thermometer mounte…

A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.

f four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper. -- Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. -- Bath stone, a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, used for building.

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." Sterne.

(B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

e, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

lled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block syste…

To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.]

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance. As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse. Fuller.