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A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. Shak. With a native bent did good pursue. Dryden.

United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.

One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural. Their betters would hardly be found. Hooker. For the better, in the way of improvement; so as to produce improvement. "If I have altered him anywhere for the better." Dryden.

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" Gay.

services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

rdained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [infidelium] (R. C. Ch.), a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has…

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.

igns addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

ge bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.

er of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.…

the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.

A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to otherbodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrin…

One of the Eurylaimidæ, a family of East Indian passerine birds.

n arch above the orbit. And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.