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or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an ~; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made i…

the of a fire on the hearth. [U.S.] There was first a backlog, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt. Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.

To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see. Shak.

entury centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Du…

start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games. To their appointed base they went. Dryden.

Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. [Obs.] Shak.

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.

of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the…

A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle.

To whip on 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.

A kind of bazaar. [Obs.] She says she went to the burse for patterns. Old Play.

Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.

The light of a candle. Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden.

A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.