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The large white-heart cherry.

, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.

e main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double- barreled field glass or an opera glass.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

e is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. -- Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris),…

One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell.

A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

t (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

thern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

The blue-winged teal. See Teal.

is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.

Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.