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The large white-heart cherry.

A bogey. [Local, Eng.]

Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking. Cigar fish (Zoöl.), a fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

Refuse wool. [Obs. or Prov.]

An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.

A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.

To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc. [R.]

The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison. [R.]

The character in which Sanskrit is written.

To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.

To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.