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To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

ent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

ulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

Appearing as if 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.

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

See Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me was buoyant. Dryden.

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

urning scent. Dryden. Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

Wearing a busk. Pollok.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.

owing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. [Written also caboshed.]

nction between the members of a family according to their ages. Marks of cadency (Her.), bearings indicating the position of the bearer as older or younger son, or as a descendant of an older or younger son. See Difference (Her.).

Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. Johnson.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.