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A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.

The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

One whose occupation is to bind books.

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

Small patties.

Constipated; costive.

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.

former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. Shak.

oner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

e of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

s of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Brain fever (Med.), fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever. -- Brain sand, calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.

To open up. to be scattered; t be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. At length the darkness begins to break. Macawlay.

One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

ng with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.