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ng a great word. Bacon. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. Latimer.

To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. Byron.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

A slubbing or roving machine.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

romise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. -- Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley.…