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blank of half an inch from you. Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Hallam. I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. G. Eliot.

ining watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

r logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Ge…

Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

[Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and refle…

Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. I am much bounden to your majesty. Shak.

ough pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self- consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. He has a loyal breast. Shak.

Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. The earthquake voice of victory, To thee the breath of life. Byron.

An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

iation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.