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In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. Rich and much beforehand. Bacon.

stitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. Bacon.

Having mild and salubrious qualities. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.

having a dependent and secondary possession. A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon.

. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

ody or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.

lighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.

al drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

y the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger. Bacon. I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. Reliq. Wot.

in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

s.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.

he sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

ologna sausage. Bologna sausage Etym: [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphor…

iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

n, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

nimated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion. Bacon. Not to bow and bias their opinions. Fuller.

r Archaic as applied to material things.] Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth. Bacon. It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall. Pepys.