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One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

ves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

See Bisulphide.

charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

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

also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [Obs.] I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. Pope.

bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

ized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide. Sir, this vermin of court 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 compa…

omething over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton.

One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

g covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.