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placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

quin bean, or Tonka bean, the fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree. -- Vanilla bean. See under Vanilla.

ell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

ensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.

Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

w smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. The private concerns of fanilies. Addison.

A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.

The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

ting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla- like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.