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A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

he parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

y of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight.

e under Arbitration. -- Bond crediter (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. -- Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. Burrows. -- Bond (or lap) of a slate, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space…

One who blacks boots.

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

The pledge or surety thus given. Blackstone. Tomlins.

gest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring. Blackstone. Boxing glove, a large padded mitten or glove used in sparring for exercise or amusement.

To put into, or clothe with, breeches. A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.

of England hath ever been its greatest defense, . . . the floating bulwark of our island. Blackstone.

walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.

With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.

gland by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

celli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone.

army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. Certified check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.