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A swage or die used for shaping metals.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pen

l, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

ical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.

A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

on-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

ance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.