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r or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.

Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.

A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

One who bemoans.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.

One who blackens.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.

A boor killed for the table.

The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

ks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

See under Battery, and Burner.