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In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. [Obs.]

e little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

in which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

A hound for baiting or hunting bears. Car

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. Prior.

A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.

cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a.

A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

Hung with a bell or bells.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton.

to circumstance; to place. [Only in p. p.] They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: . . . and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.

Consisting of two hundred years.

Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.

r bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.