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nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits an…

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd.

well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

h guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.

A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

The square in which the pitcher stands.

A bitch of the hound kind. Shak.

One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler (Naut.), a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant…

A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France. Burgundy pitch, a resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are ma…

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

n which butts of wine are kept. Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Wright.

A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, "The itch for writing". Addison.

rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

t, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow. -- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. -- To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.