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The north wind; -- usually a personification.

Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.

hematical instrument makers, etc. Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.

Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.

A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Fairfax.

To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

t south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

The bison of North America.

A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.

ant fever burns me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

re 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 company with the prairie dog.

uments of war, and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.

in infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.