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Such as can be transported in a boat.

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus.

Supported; upheld.

A supporter.

ds on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.…

A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often d…

breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

k. This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity. Bp. Porteus.

Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.

r or pit; a verge; a border; as, 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.

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. "Broad and open day." Bp. Porteus.

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

o shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

dge, 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 company wi…