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A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. [R.] Bartlett.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A drunken spree. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

live oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

of shares (Stock Exchange), a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton…

boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. To blow hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage…

A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

A game at cards; poker. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] Bartlett.

A toady. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.

ndressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

ed in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.