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s; to die by violence. "Cæsar must bleed." Shak. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

o wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope

To obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. Pope.

anding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

Hard to impress or penetrate. [R.] I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions. Pope.

ibbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle. Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. Pope.

Filled with book learning. [R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.

preciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. Pope.

rom his den; the herd bounded across the plain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

One that brays like an ass. Pope.

in churches, for any public or private purpose. [Eng.] Apostolical brief, a letter of the pope written on fine parchment in modern characters, subscribed by the secretary of briefs, dated "a die Nativitatis," i. e., "from the day of the Nativity," and sealed with the ring of the fisherman. It differs from a bull, in it…

rilliant color; of lively hue or appearance. Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. Pope.

ts on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.

Boldness; impudence; "brass." Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. Pope. Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium. -- Bronze age, an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze. -- Bronze powder, a metallic powder, used with…

ioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.

To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

ideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

e." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burroughs.