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A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

A hassock or thick mat.

A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

The first milk given by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.