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or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne.

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

Bravado. [Obs.] Fanshawe.

closing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. -- Breeches pipe, a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened t…

A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See under Bowline. -- Branches of a bridle. See under Branch. -- Bridle cable (Naut.), a cable which is bent to a bridle. See 4, above. -- Bridle hand, the hand which holds the bridle in riding; the left hand. -- Bridle path, Bridle way, a path or way for saddle horses and pack hor…

With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

pimp. [Obs.] We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak.

ryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] Sir J. Hawkins.

A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting rese…

great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping en…

brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

e used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.

tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

of a cable. -- Sheet cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. -- Submarine cable. See Telegraph. -- To pay out the cable, To veer out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out o…