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g-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

aithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

ge, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

ich the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Having, or terminating in, two tails.

Two-tailed; bicaudal.

he several articles purchased, with the price of each. -- Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off. -- Bill of rights, a summary of rights and privileges claimed by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the Lords and Com…

e adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

t abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc. "Brandishes of the fan." Tailer.

To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.] Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved. Shak.

The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

The bushy tail of a fox.

Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.