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orse for another. To bargain away, to dispose of in a bargain; -- usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate." G. Eliot.

An Australian river fish (Osteoglossum Leichhardtii).

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden.

eath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

at thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

up or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Bloom; a blossoming. [Prov. Eng.] All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. T. Hardy.

Blossomy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. Shak.