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eir bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

tten also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

Bravado. [Obs.] Fanshawe.

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

pimp. [Obs.] We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak.

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawers, professors of religion, etc. "A brother of your order." Shak. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. Shak.

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.

A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

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

A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:

Drawers. [Obs.]

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

ing the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.

ing. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].

A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram und…

, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one. [U. S.]