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A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve. -- Ball vein (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.

A sort of table used by printers.

Unreal; illusory. "A sort of Barmecidal feast." Hood.

A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. Bath brick, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. -- Bath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, o…

a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annih…

A place of habitual or frequent resort.

To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.

Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. King.

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

A sort of fine buckram.

ser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.

A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

oss bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

imagination. [R.] Shak. To have on the brain, to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. [Low] Brain box or case, the bony on cartilaginous case inclosing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so…

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Jamieson.