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A blowgun; a blowtube. Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. -- Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).

g, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then…

A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. As late the boatman hies him home. Percival.

The art of managing a boat.

A woman who manages a boat.

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]

nything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.

and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

To manage the bow.

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

s developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. -- n. (Anat.)

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.

ne of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.