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nary distance from the place of shooting to the butt, or mark. -- Butts and bounds (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries. In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed. Burrill. -- Bead and butt. Se…

low; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.

A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. [Eng.] Dickens.

ment of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed them one. Bunyan.

erene; undisturbed. "Calm was the day." Spenser. Now all is calm, and fresh, and still. Bryant.

Comradeship and loyalty.

To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. Dryden.

A south American tick of the genus Amblyamma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast.

rrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

A kind of calash. See Carryall.