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rage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. --…

A sort of grape. Jonson.

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. Swift.

harged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

ce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.

ecifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and…

Shaped like a purse.

A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] "A fine burst of country." Jane Austen.

One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

Officious; meddling; foolish active. On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Shak.

nd 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. See under Bead. -- Butt and butt, joining end to end without overlapping, a…

An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

A namber of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.

r and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

Shaped like a plipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.

h America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.