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sed for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

which has a brown streak. See Limonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a str…

rposes, 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, etc.

pid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

e and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. -- Bulb of a hair, the "root," or part whence the hair originates. -- Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. -- Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervou…

Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

The body. [Obs.] Shak. My liver leaped within my bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold…

g tenacity. Bulldog bat (zo'94l.), a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; -- so called from the shape of its face.

. Bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer.

venient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes. The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith. Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. Weale.…