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A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

envious man are those little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character. Spectator.

hide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

To be lustful; to be lascivious. [Obs.]

rge and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

vable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in illust. above.

Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

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

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

ich is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.