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On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

ransparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.

To bestride.

imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

icle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

One who rides a bicycle.

t; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.

er end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

ich remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

xed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.…

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character. I'll cross it, though it blast me. Shak. Blasted with excess of light. T. Gray.

nspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide. Thyself thou blazon'st. Shak. There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. Trumbull. To blazon his own worthless name. Cowper.

rics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.

resence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. Look how imagination blows him. Shak.

To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.