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with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. Buckets . . . to bail out the water. Capt. J. Smith.

To make up in a bale. Goldsmith.

n warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

or describing large circles. -- Beam engine, a steam engine having a working beam to transmit power, in distinction from one which has its piston rod attached directly to the crank of the wheel shaft. -- Before the beam (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon included between a line that crosses the ship at right angles an…

ry between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

y contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

ed by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

us to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.

ith the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- appl…

omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.