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Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

See Arquebus. [Obs.]

hich the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

The shot of an arquebus. Ash.

A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

System; discipline. [India]

A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

See Capper, a plant, 2.

A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.

d last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.

The 12th day of October, on which day in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, landing on one of the Bahama Islands (probably the one now commonly called Watling Island), and naming it "San Salvador"; -- called also Discovery Day. This day is made a legal holiday in many States of The United States.…

when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

The quality of being combustible.

king fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

Combustibility.

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. Combustion results is common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed. Ure. Supporter of combustion (Chem.),…

ore thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.