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pecially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.

unding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

the bonds of fellowship. A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. Burke.

a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. "Bottomless speculations." Burke.

of Italy, and the citadel in her hands to bridle Switzerland, are in that consolidation. Burke.

s, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

e which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke.

The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

anks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

incipal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained." J. Morley.

hose old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. Burke.

disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

t reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another. Burke. Burrowing owl (Zoöl.), a small owl of the western part of North America (Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.

p; to brace firmly. To set it upright again, and to prop and buttress it up for duration. Burke.

or time of distress or misfortune; misery. The deliberations of calamity are rarely wise. Burke. Where'er I came I brought calamity. Tennyson.

or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. Long habits of calculative dealings. Burke.

, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke.

Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind. Burke. Caliber compasses. See Calipers. -- Caliber rule, a gunner's calipers, an instrument having two scales arranged to determine a ball's weight from its diameter, and conversely. -- A ship's caliber, the weight of her armament.

Relating to cannibals or cannibalism. "Cannibal terror." Burke.

The use of cannon. Burke.