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To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.

in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. As…

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro- positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. Graham.

State or nature of a beast.

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior.

rticular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

ity of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel. The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered. Hooker.

A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.

A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift. Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. Milton.

The fleshy nature of man. Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. Shak.

to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out. Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L'Estrange.

ing words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.