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One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

ves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

See Bisulphide.

charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

on as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

ddress; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. "Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior." "A plain, blunt man." Shak.

To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [Obs.] I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it. Shak. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33.

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

ized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide. Sir, this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another. Burke. Burrowing owl (Zoöl.), a small owl of the western part of North America (Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in compa…

omething over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands. And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep. Milton.