CAN'O-PIED, a. Covered with a canopy.

CANO-PY, #. [Gr. kwvwmetov.] 1. A covering over a throne, or over a bed; more generally, a covering over the head.-2. In architecture and sculpture, a magnificent decoration, serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair, or the like.

CANOPY, e. t. To cover with a canopy.
CA-NOROUS, a. [L. canorus.] Musical; tuneful.
CANO ROUSNESS, R. Musicalness.

CANT, v. t. (L. canto.] 1. In popular usage, to turn about, or to turn over, by a sudden push or thrust, as, to cant over a cask. Mar. Dict. 2. To toss. 3. To speak with a whining voice, or an affected, singing tone. [In this sense it is usually intransitire.] 4. To sell by auction, or to bid a price at auction. Swift.

CANT, m. 1. A tos; a throw, thrust, or push, with a sudden jerk. 2. A whining, singing manner of speech; a quunt, affected mode of uttering words, either in conversation or preaching. 3. The whining speech of beggars, as in asking alms, and making complaints of their distrees. 4. The peculiar words and phrases of professal men; phrases often repeated, or not well authortred. 5. Any barbarous jargon in speech. 6. Whining pretension to goodness. 7. Outery, at a public sale of goods, a call for bidders at an auction.

CANT, a. ́D. kaut.] A niche; a corner, or retired place. CAN-TABRIAN, 4. Pertaining to Cantabria.

CANTA LIV-ER, n. [cantle and caves.] In architecture, a piece of wood, framed into the front or side of a house, to spend the molding and eaves over it. CANTAR,

CANTARO,

n. An eastern weight.

CAN TATA, n. [It.] A poem set to music; a composition eng, intermixed with recitatives and airs, chiefly intended for a single voice.

HAN-TA TION, a. A singing.

CAN'TON-MENT, n. A part or division of a town or village, assigned to a particular regiment of troops; separate quarters.

CAN TRED, n. [L. centum.] A hundred villages, as in CAN TREF, Wales.

CANTY, a. In the north of England, cheerful, talkative CANVAS, n. [Fr. caneras.] 1. A coarse cloth, made of hemp or flax, used for tents, sails of ships, painting, and other purposes. 2. A clear, unbleached cloth, wove regularly in little squares, used for working tapestry with the needle.-3. Among the French, the rough draught or model on which an air or piece of inusic is composed, and given to a poet to finish.-4. Among seamen, cloth in sails, or sails in general.

CANVAS-CLIMBER, n. A sailor that goes aloft to handle sails. Shak.

CANVASS, r. t. [Old Fr. cannabasser.] 1. To discuss 2. To examine returns of votes; to search or scrutinize. CAN VASS, v. i. To seek, or go about to solicit votes or interest; to use efforts to obtain; to make interest in favor of. CANVASS, n. 1. Examination; close inspection to know the state of. 2. Discussion; debate. 3. A seeking, solicitation, or efforts to obtain.

CANVASSED, pp. Discussed; examined. CANVASS-ER, n. 1. One who solicits votes, or goes about to make interest. 2. One who examines the returns of votes for a public officer.

CANVASS-ING, ppr. Discussing; examining; sifting; seeking.

for carrying liquor for drink.

CANTE LEUP, . A variety of muskmelon.

CANTER, 6. 6. [Arm. cantreal.] To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the time, with a leap or spring.

CANTER, 6, 4. To ride upon a canter.

CANTER, m. 1. A moderate gallop. 2. One who cants, or

CANT ER BUR-Y-BELL, (kan‍ter-ber-re-bel1) n. A species of campanula. See BELL-FLOWER.

CANT ER BUR-Y-GALLOP, n. The gallop of a horse, Cremonly called a canter; said to be derived from the pilgrim» riding to Canterbury on easy, ambling horses. CANT ER-BUR-Y TALE, n. A fabulous story; so called from the tales of Chaucer.

CANT ER ING, pp. Moving or riding with a slow gal

CAN THAR 1-DIN, n. That peculiar substance existing in the meise vernators, or cantharides, which causes vesi

CAS THURIS, or plu, ¤AN-THAR I-DES, n. [Gr. xavÕα@g" spanish flies; a species of meloe.

¤ÂNTHUS, «. (Gr. avtos.] An angle of the eye; a cavity 'extremities of the eyelids.

CANTI CLE, «. [Sp. and it. cantico.] 1. A song.-In the parat Cantiles, the Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon. Aant, a division of a song; [obs.]

CANTULIV LR8, n. Pieces of wood framed into the front KH Đường số 2, Pecane, to sustain the molding over it. Moro. CANTILLATE, •. t. [L. cantille.] To chant; to recite was grandal tones. M. Stuart.

CAN THE LATION, a. A chanting; recitation with muCANDING, pr. 1. Throwing with a sudden jerk; toss1 paking with a whine or song-like tone. CANTING LY, adv. With a cant. MEANTON, a. A mong or verses. Spenser. HANTLE, . Arm, chantell; Fr. chanteau.] A frag. a purce; a portion. Shak.

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HANTLE, . f. To cut into pieces; to cut out a plece. CANT LAT, A pince; a little corner; a fragment. CANTO & [It] A part or division of a poem, answering du wtust, ka prose, is called a book. In Italian, canto is a and signifies, also, the treble part, first treble, or of vocal part. CANTON, 'It. cantons.] 1. A small portion of land, 18 à vnum of territory ; also, the inhabitants of a canton. A steall portion or district of territory, constituting a đut nori, state or government; as in Switzerland.-3. In kama try, a corner of the shield. 4. A distinct part or di

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CANTUN CL. (Rp. acantonar.] 1. To divide into small purta o districts, as territory. 2. To allot separate quarters! each regiment of an army or body of troops, CAN TUN AL, 4. Pertaining to a canton; divided into

making interest.

CANY, a. Consisting of cane, or abounding with canes. CAN ZONE, n. [It.] A song or air in two or three parts, with passages of fugue and imitation.

CAN ZO-NET, n. [lt. canzonetta.] A little or short song, in one, two or three parts.

¤A-OUTCHOU¤, n. The Indian name of gum-elastic, or Indian rubber, a substance produced from the syringe-troe in South America.

CAP, n. [Sax. cappe.] 1. A part of dress made to cover the head. 2. The ensign of a cardinalate. 3. The top, or the uppermost; the highest. 4. A vessel in form of a cap. 5. An act of respect, made by uncovering the head CAP, v. t. 1. To cover the top, or end; to spread over. 2. To deprive of the cap, or take off a cap.-To cap verses, is to name alternately verses beginning with a par ticular letter; to name in opposition or emulation; to name alternately in contest.

CAP, v. i. To uncover the head in reverence or civility. CAP-A-PIE. [Fr.] From head to foot; all over; as, armed cap-a-pie.

CAP-PA-PER, n. A coarse paper, used to make caps to hold commodities.

CAP SHEAF, n. The top sheaf of a stack of grain; the

crowner.

CA-PA-BIL/I-TY, n. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness. Shak.

CAPA-BLE, a. [Fr. capable.] 1. Able to hold or contain; able to receive; sufficiently capacions. 2. Endued with power competent to the object. 3. Possessing mental powers; intelligent; able to understand, or receive into the mind; having a capacious mind. 4. Susceptible. 5. Qualified for; susceptible of. 6. Qualified for, in a moral sense; having legal power or capacity. 7. Hollow; [obs.] Shak.

CAPABLE-NESS, n. The state or quality of being capa ble; capacity; power of understanding; knowledge. CA-PACIFY .. To qualify. Unusual. CA-PACIOUS, a. [1. capar.] Wide; large; that will hold much. 2. Broad; extensive. 3. Extensive; com prehensive; able to take a wide view.

¤Å-PÃ'CIOUSLY, ade. In a wide or caparious manner. CA-PACIOUS-NESS, n. 1. Wideness; largeness; as of a vessel. 2. Extensiveness; largeness; as of a bay. 3. Comprehensiveness; power of taking a wide survey. CA-PACI-TATE, v. t. I. To make capable; to enable, to furnish with natural power. 2. To endue with moral qualifications; to qualify; to furnish with legal powers. CAPACITA-TED, pp. Made capable; qualified. CA-PAC-I-TATION, n. The act of making capable. €A-PACITY, n. [L. capacitas.] 1. Passive power; the power of containing or holding; extent of room or space 2. The extent or comprehensiveness of the mind; the power of receiving ideas or knowledge. 3. Active power; ability. 4. State; condition; character; profession; recupation. 5. Ability, in a moral or legal sense; qualification; legal power or right.-6. In geometry, the solid

ing; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing. BURNING, s. Combustion; the act of expelling volatile matter and reducing to ashes, or to a calx; a fire; inflammation; the heat or raging of passion.

BURNING, 4. 1. Powerful; vehement. 2. Much heated; very hot; scorching.

BURN ING-GLASS, n. A glass which collects the rays of the sun into a small space, called a focus, producing an intense heat.

BURNING-THORNY-PLANT. A species of spurge. BURN ISH, e. t. [Fr. brunir.] To polish by friction; to make smooth, bright and glossy.

BURNISH, ». i. 1. To grow bright or glossy. Swift. 2. To grow; to spread out. Dryden.

BURNISH, . Gloss; brightness; lustre. Christ. Obs.
BURNISHED, pp. Polished; made glossy.

BURN'ISH-ER, n. 1. The person who polishes, or makes glossy. 2. An instrument used in polishing, of different

kinds.

BURN ISH-ING, ppr. Polishing; making smooth and glossy. BURN OOSE, ( 8. [Sp. albornoi.] An upper cloak or garBURNOS,

ment.

BURNT, pp, of burs. Consumed; scorched; heated; subjected to the action of fire.

BÚ KNT OF FER-ING, n. Something offered, and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice; called also burst-sacrifice.

BKR, 1. The lobe or lap of the ear. 2. The round knob of a born next a deer's head. 3. The sweet-bread. BUK RAS PIPE, a. An instrument or vessel used to keep comoding powders in.

BUX-REEĎ, ■ A plant, the sparganium.

BURREL, n. A sort of pear, called the red butter pear.
BURREL-FLY, . The ox-fly, gad-bee, or breeze.

BUR KEL-SHOT, a. [Fr. bourreler, and shot.] Small shot, ails, stones, pieces of old iron, &c., put into cases, to be ducharged among enemies.

BURBOCK, n. A small wier or dam where wheels are laid in a river, for catching fish.

BURROW, n. A different orthography of burgh, borough, which see.

BUK KÓW, n. [Sax. byrgen.] A hollow place in the earth, in a warren, where small animals lodge.

BURROW, v. . To lodge in a hole excavated in the earth. to lodge in any deep or concealed place. BUERÓW-ING, ppr. Lodging in a burrow.

BURSAR, n. 1. A treasurer, or cash-keeper; a purser. 2. A student, to whom a stipend is paid out of a burse, or fast. Jos AGM.

BURSAR SHIP, . The office of a bursar. Hales. BURSA-RY, . 1. The treasury of a college, or monastery. 2. In Scotland, an exhibition.

BURE, burs, s. [Fr. bourse.] 1. A public edifice in certain ots, for the meeting of merchants, to consult on matters of trade and money; an exchange. 2. In France, a fund or foundation for the maintenance of poor scholars in

ET, . pret. and pp. burst. The old participle bursten

nearly obsolete. [Sax. byrstan, burstan.) 1 To fly erreak open with force, or with sudden violence; to suf fer a violent disruption. 2. To break away; to spring brum. 1. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence; trash upon unexpectedly. 4. To issue suddenly, or to me from a hidden or retired place into more open view. To break forth into action suddenly. 6. To break or radio with violence.

BEST, &. c. To break or rend by force or violence; to a saddenly.

BILT, A sudden disruption; a violent rending; a sadúra explosion or shooting forth. 2. A rupture; a lier

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BURST, « BURST′EN, pp. or a. Affected with a rupture,

EL-T, pp. Opened or rent asunder by violence.
ELT EN NES, . The state of having a rupture; the

ELTER, A One that bursts.

LEST ING, ppr Rending or parting by violence; explod

EZ-T-WORT, 1. The herniaria, a plant said to be good 3. baruka or ruptures.

El 7. ■. A flat fish of the turbot kind. Johnson.
BURTHEN See BURDEN.

BUL TVN, (bur‍tn) s. A small tackle formed by two blocks
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HUEY, (erty) s This word is a different orthography of
bung, bark, borough. It signifies a house, habitation, or
#matte, sai la retained in many names of places, as in
Karvesbury, Danbury. The word is used by Grew, for

BT. 3. Y, berry) e. t. (Bax. byrían, burgan.] 1. To deposit a terassed person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to enIn 2 to cover wuh earth, as seed sown. 3. To

hide; to conceal; to overwhelm to cover with any thing. 4. To withdraw or conceal in retirement. 5. To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean. 6. To place one thing within another. 7. To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion To bury the hatchet, in the language of American Indians is to lay aside the instruments of war, forget injuries, and make peace. BURY-ING, (ber re-ing) ppr. Interring; hiding; covering with earth; overwhelming.

BURY-ING, a. The act of interring the dead; sepulture. BURY-ING-PLACE, n. A grave-yard; a place appropriated to the sepulture of the dead; a church-yard. BURY-PEAR, n. [Fr. beurée.] The name of a very tender and delicate pear. Cotgrave.

BUSH, n. [D. bosch.] 1. A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs. With hunters, a fox tail. 2. An assemblage of branches interwoven 3. A branch

of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign. 4. Arcle of metal let into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing. BUSH, v. i. To grow thick or bushy. Milton. BUSH, v. t. To furnish a block with a bush.

BUSH EL, n. [Fr. boissean.] 1. A dry measure, containing eight gallons, or four pecks. 2. A large quantity. 3. The circle of iron in the nave of a wheel; in America called a

box.

BUSH'EL-AGE, n. A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.

BUSH'ET, n. A wood. See BUSKET.

BUSHI-NESS, n. The quality of being bushy.
BUSH-MAN, n. [D. bosch-man.] A woodsman.

↑ BUSH'MENT, n. A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
BUSHY, a. 1. Full of branches; thick and spreading, like
a bush. 2. Full of bushes; overgrown with shrubs.
BUS IED, (biz/zid) pp. of busy.

BUSI-LESS, (biz/ze-les) a. Without business; at leisure; unemployed.

BUS'I-LY, (biz/ze-ly) adv. 1. With constant occupation; actively; earnestly; as, to be busily employed. 2. With an air of hurry or importance; with too much curiosity; importunately; officiously.

BUS-NESS, (biz nes) a. 1. Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men. 2. Affairs; concerns. 3. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention. 4. Serious engagement, important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs 5. Concern; right of action or interposing. 6. A point, a inatter of question; something be examined, consid ered or performed.-To do the buiness for a man, is to kill, destroy, or ruin him.

BUSK, n. [Fr. busque.] A piece of steel or whale-bone, worn by women to strengthen their stays. † BUSK, n. A bush.

BUSK, v. i. To be active or busy. Fairfax uses it in the sense of prepare, transitively, "to busk them for the bat

tle."

BUSKET, n. A small bush, or a compartment of shrubs in a garden. Spenser.

BUSK IN, n. 1. A kind of half boot, or high shoe, covering the foot and leg to the middle, worn by ancient actors of ragedy. 2. In classic authors, the word is used for tragedy.

BUSKINED, a. Dressed in buskins. Milton,

BUSKY, a. Bushy; wooded; shaded or overgrown with trees or shrubs; generally written bosky.

BUSS, n. [L. basio; Fr. baiser.] 1. A kiss; a salute with the lips. 2. D. buis.] A small vessel.

BUSS, v. t. To kiss; to salute with the lips. Shak. BUST, n. [It. and Sp. busto.] In sculpture, the figure of a person in relief, showing only the head, shoulders, and

stomach.

BUST ARD, The tarda, a species of fowl of the grallic

order.

BUSTLE, (bus's!) r. i. To stir quick; to be very active } to be very quick in motion.

BUSTLE, (bus'st) n. Hurry; great stir; rapid motion with noise and agitation; tumult.

BUSTLER, (busler) n. An active, stirring person. BUSTLING, (bus'ling) ppr. Stirring, moving actively with noise or agitation.

BUST O, . A bust; sometimes, perhaps, used for a statue. BUSY, (bizzy) a. [Sax. bysi, bysig. 1. Employed with constant attention; engaged about something that renders interruption inconvenient. 2. Actively employed; occupied without cessation; constantly in motion. 3. Active in that which does not concern the person; meddling with or prying into the affairs of others; officious; importu nate; vexatious. 4. Much occupied with employment. BUS Y, (bizzy) r. t. To employ with constant attention; to keep engaged; to make or keep busy. BUSY-BODY, (biz ze-bod-e) n. A meddling person; one who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others. BUT part. for butan. (Commonly, but not correctly classed, by exicographers, among conjunctions or prepositions.)

[Sax. butan, buton.] 1. Except; besides; unless. 2. Only. BUT, conj. [Sax. bote.] More; further; noting an addition. BUT, n. [Fr. bout.] 1. An end; a limit; a bound. 2.

The end of a plank in a ship's side or bottom, which unites with another; generally written butt.

BUT, v. i. To be bounded by; to lie contiguous to; a word used in America. See ABUT.

BUT-END, n. The largest or blunt end of a thing. BUTCHER, n. [Fr. boucher.] 1. One who slaughters animals for market. 2. One who kills men, or commands troops to kill them.

BUTCHER, v. t. 1. To kill or slaughter animals for food, or for market. 2. To murder.

BUTCH ER-BIRD, n. The shrike, genus lanius.
BUTCH ER-LI-NÉSS, n. A cruel, savage, butcherly man-

ner.

BUTCH/ER-LY, a. Cruel; savage; murderous; grossly and clumsily barbarous. Shak.

BUTCHER-ROW, n. The row of shambles. Whitlock. BUTCHER'S-BROOM, n. Ruscus; a genus of plants, called also knee-holly.

BUTCH'ER-Y, n. 1. The business of slaughtering cattle for the table, or for market. 2. Murder; great slaughter. Dryden. 3. The place where animals are killed for market; a shambles, or slaughter-house.

BUTLER, n. [Fr. bouteillier.] A servant or officer in the houses of princes and great men, whose principal business is to take charge of the liquors, plate, &c.

BUT LER-AGE, n. A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by foreigners. BUT LER SHIP, n. The office of a butler.

BUT MENT, 2. 1. A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier. 2. The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained. It is written also abut

ment.

BUT SHAFT, n. An arrow to shoot at butts with. BUTT, n. 1. Literally, end, furthest point. Hence, a mark to be shot at; the point where a mark is set or fixed to be shot at. 2. The point to which a purpose or ef fort is directed. Shak. 3. The object of aim. 4. The person at whom ridicule, jests, or contempt are directed 5. [Sax. butte, or bytt.] A push or thrust given by the head of an animal. 6. A cask whose contents are two hogsheads; called also a pipe. 7. The end of a plank in a ship's side or bottom. 8. A particular kind of hinge for doors,

&c.

BUTT, v. i. [It. buttare.] To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head against, as a ram.

BUT TEK, n. [Sax. buter, butera; Ger. butter; L. butyrum.] An oily substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

BUTTER, v. t. 1. To smear with butter. 2. To increase the stakes at every throw or every game. BUTTER-BUMP, . The bittern. Johnson. BUTTER-BURR, n. A plant, a species of tussilago. BUTTER-CUPS, n. A name given to a species of ranuncu lus, or crow-foot.

BUTTER-FLOW-ER, n. A yellow flower. Gay.

BUTTER-FLY, n. Papilio, a genus of insects of the order of lepidopters.

BUTTER-FLY-SHELL, n. A genus of testaceous molluscas, with a spiral, unilocular shell.

BUTTER-IS, n. An instrument of steel set in wood for paring the hoof of a horse.

BUTTER-MILK, n. The milk that remains after the butter is separated from it.

BUTTER-NUT, n. The fruit of an American tree, the juglans cinerea.

BUTTER-PRINT,

n. A piece of carved wood, used to
BUTTER-STAMP, mark cakes of butter.
BUT TER-TOOTH, n. A broad fore tooth.
BUTTER-WIFE,

BUTTER-WOM-AN,. A woman who sells butter.
BUT TER-WORT, n. A species of pinguicula.

BUT TER-Y, a. Having the qualities or appearance of butter. Harvey.

BUT TER-Y, n. An apartment in a house, where butter, milk. provisions, and utensils are kept.

BUTTOCK, n. 1. The rump, or the protuberant part behind. 2. The convexity of a ship behind, under the

stern.

BUT TON, (but'tn) n. [Fr. bouton.] 1. A knob; a small ball; a catch used to fasten together the different parts of dress. 2. Any knob or ball fastened to another body; a small protuberant body. 3. A bud; a gem of a plant. 4. A flat piece of wood, turning on a nail or screw, to fas

ten doors. 5. The sea-urchin.

· BUTTON, (but'tn) v. t. 1. To fasten with a button, or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons. 2. To dress or clothe [not used.]

BUTTON-HOLE,`n. The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

BUTTON-MA-KER, n. One whose occupation is to make

buttons.

BUTTON-STONE, n. A species of figured stone, or hard flint, resembling a button."

BUTTON-TREE, n. The conocarpus.
BUTTON-WEED, n. A genus of plants.

BUTTON-WOOD, n. 1. The cephalanthus, a shrub. 2. The platanus occidentalis, western plane-tree, a large tree growing in N. America, producing rough balls, from which it is named.

BUTTRESS, n. 1. A prop; a wall or abutment built archwise, serving to support another wall on the outside. 2 Any prop or support.

BUT TRESS, v. t. To support by a buttress; to prop.
BUT TRESSED, a. Supported with a buttress.

BUTTS, n. pl. A place where archers meet to shoot at a mark.
BUT-WINK, n. A bird. Johnson.

BUT-Y-RA CEOUS, ) a. [from L. butyrum, butter.] HavBUT'Y-ROUS, ing the qualities of butter; resem

bling butter.

BUXOM, a. [Sax. bocsum.] 1. Obedient; obsequious; ready to obey; [obs.] 2. Gay; lively; brisk. Milton. 3. Wanton; jolly. Druden. BUXOM-LY, adv. Obediently; [obs.] 2. Wantonly; amorously.

BUXOM-NESS, n. Meekness; obedience; [obs.] Chaucer 2. Briskness; amorousness

BUY, (bi) v. t., pret and np. bought, pron. bawt. [Sax. bi gan, or byegan, bygan.] 1. To acquire the property, right, or title to any thing, by paying a consideration or an equivalent in money; to purchase; to acquire by paying a price. 2. To procure by a consideration given; to procure at a price. 3. To bribe; to corrupt or pervert the judgment by paying a consideration.

To buy off, to influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration.-To buy out. 1. To buy off, or detach from. 2. To purchase the share or shares of a person in a stock.-In popular language, to buy is to pay dear for, as in Chaucer.

BUY, (bi) v. i. To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
BUYER, (bier) n. One who buys; a purchaser.
BUYING, ppr. Purchasing.

BUZZ, v. i. [It. buzzicare.] 1. To make a low, hissing sound, as bees. 2. To whisper; to speak with a low, hissing voice; to make a low, hissing sound. Shok. BUZZ, v. t. To whisper; to spread, as report, by whispers, or to spread secretly. Bentley.

BUZZ, R. The noise of bees; also, a whisper.

BUZZ ARD, n. [D. buzaard.] 1. A species of falco, or hawk, the buteo; a rapacious, but sluggish bird. 2. A blockhead; a dunce.

BUZZ ARD, a. Senseless; stupid. Milton.

BUZ-ZARD-ET', n. A species of falco, or hawk.

BUZZER, n. A whisperer; one who is busy in telling tales secretly.

BUZZING, ppr. Making a low, hissing sound; whispering; tattling in secret.

BY, prep. [Sax. be, or big; Goth. bi.] 1. Near; close; as, sit by me. 2. Near, in motion; as, to pass by a church. 3. Through, or with, denoting the agent, means, instrument, or cause; as, "a city is destroyed by fire." 4. "Day by day;""year by year;" "article by article." In these phrases, by denotes passing from one to another, or each particular separately taken. 5. "By the space of seven years." In this phrase, by denotes through, pass ing or continuing, during. 6. "By this time the sun had risen." The word here seems to denote, at, present, or come to. 7. According to; as, "this appears by his own account;""these are good rules to live by." 8. On; as, "to pass by land or water." 9. It is placed before words denoting quantity, measure, or proportion; as, to sell by the pound. 10. It is used to represent the means or instrument of swearing, or aflirming; as, to swear by heaven. 11. In the phrase, "he has a cask of wine by him," by denotes nearness or presence. 12. "To sit by one's self," is to sit alone, or without company. 13. "To be present by attorney." In this phrase, by denotes mears or instrument; through or in the presence of a substitme. 11. In the phrase, "north by west," the sense seems to be, north passing to the west, inclining or going westward or near west.-As an adverb, by denotes also nearness, or presence; as, there was no person by at the time.-Ey and by is a phrase denoting nearness in time; in a short time after, presently; soon.-By the by signifies, as we proceed or pass, [Fr. en passant,] noting something interposed in the progress of a discourse, which is distinct from the main subject.-To stand by, is to stand near, or to support. In the common phrase, good-bye, bye signifies passing, going. The phrase signifies, a good going, a prosperous passage, and it is equivalent to farewell.-By is used in many compound words, in most of which we observe the sense of nearness, closeness, or a withdrawing or seclusion. Sec ABY.

† BY.

BY ASS. See BLAS.

BYL-COFFEE-HOUSE, n. A coffee-house in an obscure place. Addison.

BY-CON-CERN/MENT, n. An affair distinct from the main business. Dryden.

BY CORN-ER, . Á private corner.

BY-DE-PENDENCE, n. An appendage; that which depends on something else.

BY-DE SIGN', . An incidental design, or purpose
BY-DRINK-ING, a. A private drinking.

BY-END, . Private end; secret purpose or advantage.
BY-GONE, 4. Past; gone by. Scots dialect. Grew.
BY -INTER-EST, n. Self-interest, private advantage.
BY-LANE, n. A private lane, or one out of the usual road.
BY-LAW, s. A town law; the law of a city, town or pri-
vate corporation. Bacon.

BY-MAT-TER, я. Something incidental. Bacon.
BY-NAME, a. Nickname; an incidental appellation.
BY-NAME, v. t. To give a nickname. Camden,
BY-PAST, &. Past; gone by. Scots dialect.

BY -PATH, . A private path; an obscure way
BY RESPECT, . Private end, or view. Dryden.
BY ROAD, n. A private or obscure road Swift.
BY-ROOM, a. A private room or apartment. Shak.
BY-SPEECH, . An incidental or casual speech, not di
rectly relating to the point. Hooker

↑ BY SPELL, n. [Sax. bigspell.] A proverb. Coles

BY-STAND-ER, n. [Sax. bigstandan.] One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

BY-STREET, n. A separate, private or obscure street
BY-TURN-ING, n. An obscure road. Sidney.

BY-VIEW, n. Private view; self-interested purpose.
BY-WALK, n. A secluded or private walk. Dryden.
BY-WAY, R. A secluded, private or obscure way.
BY-WEST', ade. Westward; to the west of. Davies.
BY-WIPE, n. A secret stroke or sarcasm. Milton.
BY-WORD, n. [Sax. bi, or big, and word.] A common say
ing; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
BYE, n. [Sax.] Adwelling. Gibson.

BYRE, n. A cow-house.

C, the third better in the English alphabet, and the second

articulation or consonant, is a palatal, nearly corresponding in sound with the Greck, kappa.

la English, C has two sounds, or rather it represents two very different articulations of the organs; one close, like A, which occurs before a o and ; the other, a sibitat, precisely like s, which occurs before e, i and y. As an abbreviature, C stands for Caius, Carolus, Cæsar, condrms, &c., and CC for consulibus. As a numeral, C stands for 100, CC for 200, &c.-In music, C after the chaf, is the mark of common time.

CA. Heb. Ch. 2 kab.] An oriental dry measure, containing two pints and five sixths, English and American

LA BAIJ, or CABA-LA, я. Tradition, or a mysterious kind of ecsence among Jewish rabbins, pretended to have been delivered to the ancient Jews by revelation, and transmitted by oral tradition; serving for the interpretation of difficult passages of Scripture.

CABIN, v. i. To live in a cabin; to lodge. Shak. CABIN, v. t. To confine in a cabin. Shak. CAB'IN-BOY, n. A boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers on board of a ship. CABINED, pp. Inclosed; covered. Milton. CABI-NET, . [Fr.] 1. A closet; a small room, or retired apartment. 2. A private room, in which consultations are held. 3. The select or secret council of a prince or executive government; so called from the apartment in which it was originally held. 4. A piece of furniture, consisting of a chest or box, with drawers and doors. A private box. 5. Any close place where things of value are reposited for safe keeping. 6. A but; a cottage; a small house; [obs.] Spenser.

€ABI-NET, v. t. To inclose. Howel. [Little used.] CABI-NET-COUNCIL, #. 1. A council held with privacy; the confidential council of a prince or executive magistrate. 2. The members of a privy council; a select number of confidential counselors.

CABI-NET-ED, pp. Inclosed in a private apartment, or in a cabinet.

CABI-NET-MA'KER, x. A man whose occupation is to make cabinets, tables, bureaus, &c.

CABIN-MATE, n. One who occupies the same cabin with another. Beaumont.

CAB I-REAN, . One of the Cabiri. Faber.
CA-BIRI-AN,a. Pertaining to the Cabiri, certain deities
CA-BIRIC,

vw by intrigue, to intrigue.

CABA-LÍSM, . The secret science of the cabalists.

GADALIST, a. 1. A Jewish doctor who professes the

dy of the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. - To French commerce, a factor or agent. CABA LIST IE, a. Pertaining to the cabala; conCARA LIST I-CAL, À taining an occult meaning. CARA-LISTICAL-LY, ade. In the manner of the caba

CAIFA LIZE., v. i. To use the manner or language of the raituta. Not much used.] CABALLER, ». One who unites with others in close deto effet an object by intrigue; one who cabals. €ALAL-LINE, s. [L., caballians.] Pertaining to a horse. CA BALLING, ppr. Eniting in a cabal; intriguing in a

CAPA ET, e. [Fr.] A tavern.

CABBAGE, . (It. coppaccis.] A genus of plants, called, stany, bra, of several species; some of which are cultivated for food.

CAS BAGE, #1. To form a head in growing. CALBAGR, EL. D. kabassen.] To purloin or embezzle, sacres of el ab, after cutting out a garment. Arbuthnot. ATUCAGE NOT, n. A small net to boil cabbage in. CAGAGE-TREE, n. The cablage palm, a species of areca, the m'macta, a native of warm climates. CAL BAGE WORM, ». An insect. Johnson. CABIAI, m. An animal of 8. America resembling a hog. €45[V, ». (Pr. cabane.] 1. A small room; an inclosed pl. 2. A cottage ; à but, or small house. 3. A tent; a shed, any coverod place for a temporary residence. 4. An apartment in a ship for officers and passengers.

in Greece and Phenicia. Bryant. Faber.

CABLE, n. [Sp., Fr. cable.] A large, strong rope or chain, used to retain a vessel at anchor. CABLED, a. Fastened with a cable. CABLET, #. A little cable. Mar. Dict. CABLE-TIER, n. The place where the cables are coiled away. Mar. Dict.

CA-BOB, e. t. To roast meat in a certain mode. CA-BOCHED, or CA-BÕSHED, a. In heraldry, having the head cut close, so as to have no neck left. CA-BOE, n. [G. kabuse.] 1. The cook-room or kitchen of a ship; a fire place or stove for cooking in a small vessel. 2. Á box that covers the chimney in a ship. CABOS, n. A species of eel-pout, about two feet long. CABRIOLE, in. [Fr. cabriolet.] A gig; a one-horse CABRIOLET, A chair, a light carriage CABURE, n. A Brazilian bird of the owl kind. CABURNS, . Small lines made of spun-yarn, to bind cables, seize tackles, and the like.

CA CÁO, or CỠUA, (CŨ) a. The chocolate-tree, a spe cies of the theobroma a native of the West Indies. €A€-€OONS', n. A plant, called, in botany, fierillea. CACH'A-LOT, n. A cetaceous fish, the physcter, or sperma ceti whale.

CACHE, n. [Fr.] A term used by traders and explorers in the unsettled western country belonging to the United States, for a hole dug in the ground, for the purpose of preserving and concealing such provisions and commodi ties as it may be inconvenient to carry with them through out their journey. Lewis and Clark's Travels. CA-CHECTIC,

CA-CHECTI-CAL, 4. Having an ill habit of body.