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A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

ood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.

A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands. A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott.

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

to terminate friendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

ridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. -- Bridge of the nose, the upper, bony part of the nose. -- Cantaleve…

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

less, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.

profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidæ).

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.

Bush dog. (Zoöl.) See Potto. -- Bush hammer. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary. -- Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow. -- Bush hog (Zoöl.), a South African wild hog (Potamochoerus Africanus); -- called also bush pig, and water hog. -- Bush master (Zoöl.), a venomous snake (Lachesis mutus) of Guinea; -- called als…

be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. [U.S.] Farrow.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.