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plied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

and v. t. & i. Same as Bilge.

A cage for confining birds.

hings or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

A raid. [Obs.]

captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden.

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Plant of the Borage family.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

See Borage, n., etc.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

Same as Boscage. Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.

A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.

Impudent; bold.