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A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

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

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.

A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

irdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare. When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with. Coodwin.

Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

g a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.

small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.

ed from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly- gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. The grass blows from their graves to thy own. M. Arnold.

e boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.