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A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.

-- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

ed to the bit. -- Bridle road. (a) Same as Bridle path. Lowell. (b) A road in a pleasure park reserved for horseback exercise. -- Bridle track, a bridle path. -- Scolding bridle. See Branks, 2.

Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery. Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.

butter. The butter tree of India is the B. butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree (B. Parkii). See Shea tree. -- Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter. -- Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic]

one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity. R. Park.

private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous. Parkhurst.

xandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

ed with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.

An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.…

Romans. This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks. Parker.