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To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.

To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat. There thou mayst brain him. Shak. It was the swift celerity of the death . . . That brained my purpose. Shak.

ffect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

A boor killed for the table.

the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the…

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

solely; merely. Observe but how their own principles combat one another. Milton. If they kill us, we shall but die. 2 Kings vii. 4. A formidable man but to his friends. Dryden.

who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

tleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

t, and in 1680 declared Charles II deposed for tyranny, breach of faith, etc. Cameron was killed at the battle of Airdmoss, but his followers became a denomination (afterwards called Reformed Presbyterians) who refused to recognize laws or institutions which they believed contrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now…

One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott.

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

Military skill; as, to show good captainship.

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

ican bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.