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Natural advantaged; endowments; accomplishments. [R.] "The benefits of your own country." Shak. Benefit of clergy. (Law) See under Clergy.

In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

Dark-visaged; swart.

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

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." Prescott.

o the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, No greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy. "The buskined stage." Milton.

Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant. Sir, my mistress sends you word THat she is busy, and she can not come. Shak.

Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death." Cowper.

The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment. To impose celibacy on wholy callings. Hammond.

The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.

Lasting or aged a hundred years. Thet opened through long lines Of sacred ilex and centennial pines. Longfellow.

chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.