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, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]

se by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off. [Colloq.]

To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [R.] "A blushy color." Harvey.

To enter, as a railway car. [Colloq. U. S.]

The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

The common qua(Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

body or matter; in the body. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9

ten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

s opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17.

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

nt term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.

Act or state of boiling. [Colloq.]