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or effect. Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform. Hawthorne.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

To cover (the head) with a wig. Hawthorne.

He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

(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.…

g a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

uccessive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.

, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ. Hath she no husband 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.

as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.

on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

hing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

oides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

enus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.