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up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

ive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

A boride. [Obs.]

the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.

To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. "His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

nd rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein. Campbell.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.

o make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.] Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. Hamilton.

hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Prov. xi. 2. All but. See under All. -- But and if, but if; an attempt on the part of King James's translators of the Bible to express the conjunctive and adversative…

utter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. Butter and eggs (Bot.), a name given to…

A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

Mild chloride of mercury, Hg

To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

ng, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

bon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.