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e genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

To alarm with idle phantoms.

d or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect. Of some proud city, bulwarked round and armed With rising towers. Glover.

off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

irects and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]

One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

c. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.

A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler. [Local, U.S.]

To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.

A speciec of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay. [Written also Kabassou.]

To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.

Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. [Written also caboshed.]

avelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

ess stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.

Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.

A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.