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no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. "Asperity of character." Landor. It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

ties of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.

ished by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.

ficer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size th…

The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop. Ayliffe.

To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

y one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. Abbott.

(secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.