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racter; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar. "A born matchmaker." W. D. Howells. Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. -- Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [Colloq.]…

mber of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any…

A curved mark [ ] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.

. -- Bridle rein, a rein attached to the bit. -- Bridle road. (a) Same as Bridle path. Lowell. (b) A road in a pleasure park reserved for horseback exercise. -- Bridle track, a bridle path. -- Scolding bridle. See Branks, 2.

e; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.

for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

orth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

Reckoning; computation. [Obs.] Howell.

or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism. "Calvinistic training." Lowell.

To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats" W. D. Howells. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

The quality of being musical. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell.

ptain of; to lead. [R.] Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms. Lowell.

To fall in a cascade. Lowell.

Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason. Sir John Powell. Not one case in the reports of our courts. Steele.

r opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

A census; -- also, a public rate or tax. [Obs.] Howell. Bacon.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [R.] Howell.