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ng a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan.

Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

The bumblebee. Shak.

A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.

A tablet; a notebook. Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

See Tumbledung.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern. As a bittern bumbleth in the mire. Chaucer.

A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]

he head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually doublebreasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

Same as Hobblebush.

A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In…

A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body. Quain.

has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.

The hobblebush.