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pproach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphu…

r purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

nt, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it taken, found, or executed. Bouvier. Wharton.

Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed. Women have been captivate ere now. Shak.

A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. Milton.

The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

ning to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

. Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.…

e whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. -- Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. -- Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning…

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. Shak.

To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

ng an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.

Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.

te crystalline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.