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A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

son buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.…

The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear- eyed bigot.

A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to…

A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

pl. Etym: [Short for blue devils.]

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.] The long wagon body set on bobsleds. W. D. Howells.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

on; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Arbitration bond. See under Arbitration. -- Bond crediter (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. -- Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted unde…

A half boot or short boot.