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Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." Goodman.

Pain in the bowels; colic.

The act or the result of betraying.

See Dicyanide.

Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain. -- n.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

Buoyancy. [R.]

the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

ng the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Caryatids.