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A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, e…

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.

use of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive governme…

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

atification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.] All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak…

the performance of which duty calls for judgment against the party on whom the duty is imposed.

other, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.

elsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as t…

Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.

ally, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.