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ition when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a quest…

To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).

ared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]

t water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.

To bully; to threaten. [Low] T. Warton.

riety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

alm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus ba…

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.

crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.