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To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] Sir W. Scott.

To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] Steele.

ap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.

blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

To blacken; also, to defile. [Obs. or Dial.] Wyclif.

A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott

A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

To poke; to thrust. [Obs. or Dial.]

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. Lloyd.

Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.

cing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak.

Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic] -- Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.

The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.

An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.

The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea. Chaldee Paraphrase, A targum written in Aramaic.

An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.