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The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

monds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.…

A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.

A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

obe, the skin of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; -- much used as a lap robe in sleighs.

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

The lobe or lap of the ear.

ee Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. -- Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serval. -- Bush chat (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thr…

int in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

ill. -- Bead and butt. See under Bead. -- Butt and butt, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. -- Butt weld (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See Weld. -- Full butt, headfirst with fu…

To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson.

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

ich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.

A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

s, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fat…

To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence. Sir W. Scott.

Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.