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overs the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow. 'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair. Shak.

meter; the thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.

To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. [Obs.] Gower.

To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely. "Nor bussed the milking maid." Tennyson. Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss. Herrick.

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.

instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.

Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance. Coles.

y fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [Written also byss and byssin.]

The finest kind of silk received from India.

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

ress between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. Ure.

light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.] All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

t metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.

A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, espec…