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Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.

Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis…

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

price of each. -- Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off. -- Bill of rights, a summary of rights and privileges claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Prince…

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer.

; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. Blank bar (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; -- called also common bar. -- Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball. -- Blank deed. See Deed. -- Blank door, or Blank window…

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

e purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

nds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain. -- British seas, the four seas which surround Great Britain.

A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the o…

halebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.