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s except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

State or rank of a baronet.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

de to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. Bayonet clutch. See Clutch. -- Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.

Go away; depart; get you gone.

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.

An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

The scapula. See Blade, 4.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

A terrible bugbear.

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.

A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

nsisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

Pain in the bones. Shak.

See Bone black, under Bone, n.