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Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor.

ide a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls. Fry. Bullantic letters, Gothic letters used in papal bulls.

Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]

Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912. -- Bull Mooser. [Cant]

t of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.

ar or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up. To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low] He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in. Totten.

A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.