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living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [inf…

Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. King.

A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

s stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.

as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the p…

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.

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

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.

Swollen; protuberant.

portions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailo…

nacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are as bound…