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Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

ving color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

lor like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.

Fullness of branches.

with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

See Brattice, n.

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth.

pping on the breech. I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.

A little bull.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

The condition or quality of being bushy.

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

See 1st Butt, 10.

tom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.