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A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. Hudibras.

A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).

n. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -- Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeræformis. The larva makes and…

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

ticle of food in the navy. -- Pea bean, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size. -- Sacred bean. See under Sacred. -- Screw bean. See under Screw. -- Sea bean. (a) Same as Florida bean. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament. -- Tonquin bean, or To…

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty (, n.

sh; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

n be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

Pertaining to the art of binding books. [R.] Dibdin.

Of or pertaining to bibliopolism. Dibdin.

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras.

privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.…

An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides.

with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zoöl.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zoöl.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus). -- Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal. -- Blue devils, appari…

lemish, as reputation. Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown. Hudibras.

nder side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.