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A house for bees; an apiary.

A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.

Some as Burnoose.

A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

ry, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

A toper; a boozer.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

Depressed; flattened. [Obs.] Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson

A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.

One who carouses; a reveler.

ects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke.

Having a cause. [Obs.]

Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.

The state of being causeless.