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Birdcatching or fowling. Shak. Birding piece, a fowling piece. Shak.

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

See Blanch holding.

The act of mingling.

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

Bloodshed. Shak.

r with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. Sir F. Drake.

A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

The art, process, or business of binding books.

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

llectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

An iron to brand with.

Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.

ing or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

Spreading widely.