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An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]

The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

A lawyer's brief. [R.] Hudibras.

The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

rm; sturdy. And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.

low. Buffalo berry (Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri (Sherherdia argentea) with acid edible red berries. -- Buffalo bird (Zoöl.), an African bird of the genus Buphaga, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites. -- Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. -- Buff…

The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

ry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.

The audible friction of voice consonants. H. Sweet.

A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

green tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. Hudibras.

in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.

A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.

The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant.

d, as in the penis or clitoris. -- Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.