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a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.…

hing. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

imstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.

To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris.

- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

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

The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting (Zoöl.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).

Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.] The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound. Skelton.

The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.

(something heavy or objectionable). [R.] It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell. Coleridge.

An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything. The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. Dryden.

To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.