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A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

r, readings on Baumés scale may be approximately reduced to specific gravities by the following formulæ (x in each case being the reading on Baumé's scale) : (a) for liquids heavier than water, sp. gr. = 144 ÷ (144 - x);

and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. -- Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised b…

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

To utter by bellowing. [Obs.]

to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson.

a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. The bellowing voice of boiling seas. Dryden.

top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pai…

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The act of bestowing; disposal.

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy.

d and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

k in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.