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See Bloomery.

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

See Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.

in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

A colorless liquid base, C4H9NH2, of which there are four isomeric varieties.

Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer. Calippic period, a period of seventy-six years, proposed by Calippus, as an improvement on the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.

ormation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

nt is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. Carry arms (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular p…

large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed…

a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose.…

The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.

tion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate. -- Chocolate nut. See Cacao.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.

Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun. Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself. Burke.

eing copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden.

A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.]

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).