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One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.

(F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish. Bosom up my counsel, You'll find it wholesome. Shak.

A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. Without bothering about it. H. James.

ing of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again. Carew.

is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever. -- Brain sand, calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.

e; as, the English branch of a family. His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. Carew.

To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.

To cherish with care. [R.]

Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] Wycherley. -- To make (a thing) one's business, to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.] -- To mean business, to be earnest. [Colloq.]

Careful; anxious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eagar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.

cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

mmediately succeeding the Cambrian period. The name alludes to the peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology.