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An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of ca…

ime; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause. But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me. Johnson.

To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.

The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

cked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." Shak.

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

That will take pains to blow a horn before her Shak. Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise, Then cast it off to float upon the skies. Parnell.

ening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

vices, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles. His hair did bristle upon his head. Sir W. Scott.

The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.

act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall.

One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5. Bull baiting, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-lo…

blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.