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arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. Australian bear. (Zoöl.) See Koala. -- Bear baiting, the sport of baiting bears with dogs. -- Bear caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia. -- Bear garden. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b…

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. Prior.

r a separate part; to diverge. -- To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. Spectator.

f metal covering the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift.

iness, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak.

The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup. I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. Addison.

Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.

oal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.

ure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

ble instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. More capable to discourse of battles than to give them. Motley.

lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assemblly.

Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill"ing"ly, adv.

d fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another. Bacon.

- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the liv…

r in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. Burke.