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A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

.] A ship before Greenwich . . . shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone. Stow.

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.

A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society. Bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

A comic operetta; a music farce. Byron.

A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top.

A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. [Obs.] [Written also callat.]

See Camlet.

hiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert.

A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. Farrow.

A piece; a fragment; a corner. Dryden.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

Same as Capellet.

a box, or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.

A small castle. Leland.

A small chain. Sir W. Scott.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.