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A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

rte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events. I. Taylor.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.

ith a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge.

bette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]

igged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

d at the beginning of the staff containing the bass part of a musical composition. [See Illust. under Clef.] -- Bass voice, a deepsounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

ing dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds

on a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

pterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

ioning great damage in beehives. -- Bee wolf (Zoöl.), the larva of the bee beetle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee i…

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).