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See Bryony. Tennyson.

ike one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

ed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine. Tennyson.

quids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.

To make one's way by blows or struggling. Strove to buffet to land in vain. Tennyson.

over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

eed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

ture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use…

Free from bushes; bare. O'er the long backs of the bushless downs. Tennyson.

To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely. "Nor bussed the milking maid." Tennyson. Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss. Herrick.

Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic] Tennyson.

deliberations of calamity are rarely wise. Burke. Where'er I came I brought calamity. Tennyson.

of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

for holding liquids. [Shak. ] Fill the cup and fill can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.

t as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson.

or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

A military leader; a warrior. Foremost captain of his time. Tennyson. Captain general. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. -- Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, --…

olemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson.

regard or affection for; to like or love. He cared not for the affection of the house. Tennyson.