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barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup. I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. Addison.

Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.] Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. Skelton.

ploy; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

ca, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below. -- Cabbage Fly (Zoöl.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia brassicæ), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing muc…

A private room in which consultations are held. Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott.

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.

A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant reguiring or calling for a carresponding object, etc., on the land.

th of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.

A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind. Darwin.

on, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.

es. -- Honorary canon, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. -- Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend. -- Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black c…

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is a…

e instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. More capable to discourse of battles than to give them. Motley.