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Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness (, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.

Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

ble of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]

The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

Perishable goods. Bouvier.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint cus…

One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

Methods of boycotters.

The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

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

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

A kind of kotton goods, figured on the weaving.

properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain. -- British seas, the four seas which surround Great Britain.