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d betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon. The coat of , arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. Addison.

One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.…

f a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. -- Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted…

A device for pulling off boots.

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

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

A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.

o, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

An evil spirit; a devil or demon. Shak.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.