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blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

lness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

To swell; to puff. Holland.

ood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.

To stave in; to bilge. [Obs.] Holland.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

ok entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

e to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland.

n.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone.…

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

ishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull. [Obs.] Holland.

mitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by- design, by-interest, etc.…

A captive; a prisoner. [Obs.] Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. Holland.

A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.