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Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -- Balsam fir (Bot.), the American coniferous tree, Abies balsamea, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived. --…

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. [U.S.]

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle- green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden.

eglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. Bee beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower…

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

r pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

ch constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.

One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.