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posed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.

ves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

volutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.

religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have b…

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

er insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting (Zoöl.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. Raymond.

A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.] Bureau system. See Bureaucracy. -- Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1…

r gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

g; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.

k below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. Shak.

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.