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To bleed. [Obs.] Cowper.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.

mstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.

A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.

A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. [U. S.]

lone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

lone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

verb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. "The mariner bound homeward." Cowper.

ee in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun"te*ous*ness, n.

That which is given generously or liberally. "Thy morning bounties." Cowper.

oundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. The thorns and briers of reproof. Cowper. Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; -- used for tobacco pipes. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier.…

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

e water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.