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chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia. -- To the bitter end, to the last extremity, however calamitous.

s teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. J. Fletcher.

To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

e. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

e vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.

The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.…

the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its…

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. Boom iron, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast,…

An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

To bully; to scold. [Collog.] J. Fletcher.

An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

f any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. J. Fletcher.

A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

n the breech. [Obs.] Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away, whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience, he would have breeched me. Old Play.

e person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. -- Breeches pipe, a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smal…

lace where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse. [R.] "A fine burst of country." Jane Austen.