English Dictionary: broil | by the DICT Development Group |
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{Flying army} (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy in continual alarm. --Farrow. {Flying artillery} (Mil.), artillery trained to rapid evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to spring upon the guns and caissons when they change position. {Flying bridge}, {Flying camp}. See under {Bridge}, and {Camp}. {Flying buttress} (Arch.), a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch. {Flying colors}, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence: {To come off with flying colors}, to be victorious; to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking. {Flying doe} (Zo[94]l.), a young female kangaroo. {Flying dragon}. (a) (Zo[94]l.) See {Dragon}, 6. (b) A meteor. See under {Dragon}. {Flying Dutchman}. (a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail the seas till the day of judgment. (b) A spectral ship. {Flying fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Flying fish}, in the Vocabulary. {Flying fox} (Zo[94]l.), the colugo. {Flying frog} (Zo[94]l.), an East Indian tree frog of the genus {Rhacophorus}, having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps. {Flying gurnard} (Zo[94]l.), a species of gurnard of the genus {Cephalacanthus} or {Dactylopterus}, with very large pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying fish, but not for so great a distance. Note: Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is {Cephalacanthus volitans}. {Flying jib} (Naut.), a sail extended outside of the standing jib, on the flying-jib boom. {Flying-jib boom} (Naut.), an extension of the jib boom. {Flying kites} (Naut.), light sails carried only in fine weather. {Flying lemur}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Colugo}. {Flying level} (Civil Engin.), a reconnoissance level over the course of a projected road, canal, etc. {Flying lizard}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Dragon}, n. 6. {Flying machine}, an apparatus for navigating the air; a form of balloon. -- {Flying mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the opossum mouse ({Acrobates pygm[91]us}), of Australia. Note: It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying squirrels. -- {Flying party} (Mil.), a body of soldiers detailed to hover about an enemy. -- {Flying phalanger} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of small marsuupials of the genera {Petaurus} and {Belideus}, of Australia and New Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying squirrels. The sugar squirrel ({B. sciureus}), and the ariel ({B. ariel}), are the best known; -- called also {squirrel petaurus} and {flying squirrel}. See {Sugar squirrel}. -- {Flying pinion}, the fly of a clock. -- {Flying sap} (Mil.), the rapid construction of trenches (when the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in juxtaposition and filled with earth. -- {Flying shot}, a shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing. -- {Flying spider}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Ballooning spider}. -- {Flying squid} (Zo[94]l.), an oceanic squid ({Ommastrephes, [or] Sthenoteuthis, Bartramii}), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel. -- {Flying squirrel} (Zo[94]l.) See {Flying squirrel}, in the Vocabulary. -- {Flying start}, a start in a sailing race in which the signal is given while the vessels are under way. -- {Flying torch} (Mil.), a torch attached to a long staff and used for signaling at night. | |
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Barely \Bare"ly\, adv. 1. Without covering; nakedly. 2. Without concealment or disguise. 3. Merely; only. R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue. --Shak. 4. But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped. | |
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Barilla \Ba*ril"la\ (b[adot]*r[icr]l"l[adot]), n. [Sp. barrilla.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. 2. (Com.) (a) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. (b) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. --Ure. {Copper barilla} (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also {Barilla de cobre}. | |
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Barley \Bar"ley\, n. [OE. barli, barlich, AS. b[91]rlic; bere barley + l[c6]c (which is prob. the same as E. like, adj., or perh. a form of AS. le[be]c leek). AS. bere is akin to Icel, barr barley, Goth. barizeins made of barley, L. far spelt; cf. W. barlys barley, bara bread. [?]92. Cf. {Farina}, 6th {Bear}.] (Bot.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus {Hordeum}, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. | |
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Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. vo[96]te, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See {Voluble}, and cf. {Vault} a leap, {Volt} a turn, {Volute}.] 1. (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. --Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. [bd]Charnel vaults.[b8] --Milton. The silent vaults of death. --Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. --Swift. 3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. --Shak. 4. [F. volte, It. volta, originally, a turn, and the same word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.] A leap or bound. Specifically: (a) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet. (b) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like. Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation. {Barrel}, {Cradle}, {Cylindrical}, [or] {Wagon}, {vault} (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see {Rampant vault}, under {Rampant}), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church. {Coved vault}. (Arch.) See under 1st {Cove}, v. t. {Groined vault} (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault. {Rampant vault}. (Arch.) See under {Rampant}. {Ribbed vault} (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character. {Vault light}, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below. | |
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Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[acr]r"r[ecr]l), n.[OE. barel, F. baril, prob. fr. barre bar. Cf. {Barricade}.] 1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. 2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31[frac12] gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds. 3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled. | |
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Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[acr]r"r[ecr]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Barreled} (-r[ecr]ld), or {Barrelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Barreling}, or {Barrelling}.] To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. | |
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Barruly \Bar"ru*ly\, a. (Her.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field. | |
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Bawrel \Baw"rel\, n. [Cf. It. barletta a tree falcon, or hobby.] A kind of hawk. [Obs.] --Halliwell. | |
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Nutshell \Nut"shell`\, n. 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. 2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A shell of the genus Nucula. {To} {be, [or] lie}, {in a nutshell}, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. [bd]The remedy lay in a nutshell.[b8] --Macaulay. | |
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Beryl \Ber"yl\ (b[ecr]r"[icr]l), n. [F. b[82]ryl, OF. beril, L. beryllus, Gr. bh`ryllos, prob. fr. Skr. vai[dsdot][umac]rya. Cf. {Brilliant}.] (Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The {aquamarine} is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The {emerald} is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium. | |
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Birl \Birl\, v. t. & i. To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Birl \Birl\, v. t. & i. [AS. byrlian. [root]92.] To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] --Skelton. | |
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Birlaw \Bir"law\, n. [See {By}{-law}.] (Law) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also {byrlaw}, {birlie}, {birley}.] | |
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Birlaw \Bir"law\, n. [See {By}{-law}.] (Law) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also {byrlaw}, {birlie}, {birley}.] | |
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Birlaw \Bir"law\, n. [See {By}{-law}.] (Law) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also {byrlaw}, {birlie}, {birley}.] | |
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Boreal \Bo"re*al\, a. (Biogeography) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18[deg] C. (= 64.4[deg] F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and {Boreal zone}, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones. | |
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Boreal \Bo"re*al\, a. [L. borealis: cf. F. bor[82]al. See {Boreas}.] Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. --Thomson. | |
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Borel \Bor"el\, n. See {Borrel}. | |
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Borele \Bor"e*le\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa ({Atelodus bicornis}). | |
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Borrel \Bor"rel\, n. [OF. burel a kind of coarse woolen cloth, fr. F. bure drugget. See {Bureau}. Rustic and common people dressed in this cloth, which was prob. so called from its color.] 1. Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool. | |
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Borrel \Bor"rel\, a. [Prob. from {Borrel}, n.] Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See {Place}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European food fish ({Pleuronectes platessa}), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder ({Paralichthys dentatus}; called also {brail}, {puckermouth}, and {summer flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also {plaise}.] {Plaice mouth}, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Brail \Brail\, n. [OE. brayle furling rope, OF. braiol a band placed around the breeches, fr.F. braies, pl., breeches, fr.L. braca, bracae, breeches, a Gallic word; cf. Arm. bragez. Cf. {Breeches}.] 1. (Falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. 2. pl. (Naut.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. 3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. | |
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Brail \Brail\, v. t. (Naut.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. | |
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Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See {Place}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European food fish ({Pleuronectes platessa}), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder ({Paralichthys dentatus}; called also {brail}, {puckermouth}, and {summer flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also {plaise}.] {Plaice mouth}, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Brail \Brail\, n. [OE. brayle furling rope, OF. braiol a band placed around the breeches, fr.F. braies, pl., breeches, fr.L. braca, bracae, breeches, a Gallic word; cf. Arm. bragez. Cf. {Breeches}.] 1. (Falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. 2. pl. (Naut.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. 3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. | |
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Brail \Brail\, v. t. (Naut.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. | |
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Brawl \Brawl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Brawled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Brawling}.] [OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr[?]ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. [?]95.] 1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. --Golden Boke. 2. To complain loudly; to scold. 3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. --Wordsworth. Syn: To wrangle; squabble; contend. | |
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Brawl \Brawl\, n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. His sports were hindered by the brawls. --Shak. Syn: Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult. | |
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Brill \Brill\, n. [Cf. Corn. brilli mackerel, fr. brith streaked, speckled.] (Zo[94]l.) A fish allied to the turbot ({Rhombus levis}), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also {bret}, {pearl}, {prill}. See {Bret}. | |
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Broil \Broil\, n. [F. brouiller to disorder, from LL. brogilus, broilus, brolium, thicket, wood, park; of uncertain origin; cf. W. brog a swelling out, OHG. pr[d3]il marsh, G. br[81]hl, MHG. brogen to rise. The meaning tumult, confusion, comes apparently from tangled undergrowth, thicket, and this possibly from the meaning to grow, rise, sprout.] A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. --Burke. Syn: Contention; fray; affray; tumult; altercation; dissension; discord; contest; conflict; brawl; uproar. | |
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Broil \Broil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Broiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Broiling}.] [OE. broilen, OF. bruillir, fr. bruir to broil, burn; of Ger. origin; cf. MHG. br[81]ejen, G. br[81]hen, to scald, akin to E. brood.] 1. To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals. 2. To subject to great (commonly direct) heat. | |
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Broil \Broil\, v. i. To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun. --Cheyne. | |
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Burel \Bur"el\, n. & a. Same as {Borrel}. | |
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Burhel \Bur"hel\, Burrhel \Burr"hel\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep ({Ovis burrhel}). | |
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Burial \Bur"i*al\, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. --Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52]. 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. [bd]To give a public burial.[b8] --Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. --Tennyson. {Burial case}, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body. {Burial ground}, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. {Burial place}, any place where burials are made. {Burial service}. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service. Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation. | |
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Burl \Burl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Burling}.] [OE. burle stuffing, or a knot in cloth; cf. F. bourlet, bourrelet, OF. bourel, a wreath or a roll of cloth, linen, or leather, stuffed with flocks, etc., dim. of bourre. [fb]92. See {Bur}.] To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. {Burling iron}, a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth. | |
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Burl \Burl\, n. 1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth. 2. An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences. | |
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Burly \Bur"ly\ (b[ucir]r"l[ycr]), a. [OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. {Bower}.] 1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. [bd]Burly sacks.[b8] --Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. --Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. --Cowper. 2. Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. --Cowley. | |
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Burrel \Bur"rel\, n. [Cf. OF. burel reddish (cf. {Borel}, n.), or F. beurr[82] butter pear, fr. beurre butter. Cf. {Butter}.] A sort of pear, called also the {red butter pear}, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp. | |
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Burrel \Bur"rel\, n. Same as {Borrel}. | |
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Burhel \Bur"hel\, Burrhel \Burr"hel\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep ({Ovis burrhel}). | |
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Birlaw \Bir"law\, n. [See {By}{-law}.] (Law) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also {byrlaw}, {birlie}, {birley}.] | |
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Brule, NE (village, FIPS 6785) Location: 41.09589 N, 101.88843 W Population (1990): 411 (193 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69127 Brule, WI Zip code(s): 54820 | |
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Burley, ID (city, FIPS 11260) Location: 42.53885 N, 113.78789 W Population (1990): 8702 (3346 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83318 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Burr Hill, VA Zip code(s): 22433 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Burwell, NE (city, FIPS 7345) Location: 41.78001 N, 99.13387 W Population (1990): 1278 (627 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68823 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
braille {writing systems}, intended for use by blind and low-vision users, which express {glyphs} as raised dots. Currently employed braille standards use eight dots per cell, where a cell is a glyph-space two dots across by four dots high; most glyphs use only the top six dots. Braille was developed by Louis Braille (pronounced /looy bray/) in France in the 1820s. Braille systems for most languages can be fairly trivially converted to and from the usual script. Braille has several totally coincidental parallels with digital computing: it is {binary}, it is based on groups of eight bits/dots and its development began in the 1820s, at the same time {Charles Babbage} proposed the {Difference Engine}. Computers output Braille on {braille displays} and {braille printers} for hard copy. {British Royal National Institute for the Blind (http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/braille.htm)}. (1998-10-19) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Barley a grain much cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31) and in Palestine (Lev. 27:16; Deut. 8:8). It was usually the food of horses (1 Kings 4:28). Barley bread was used by the poorer people (Judg. 7:13; 2 Kings 4:42). Barley of the first crop was ready for the harvest by the time of the Passover, in the middle of April (Ruth 1:22; 2 Sam. 21:9). Mention is made of barley-meal (Num. 5:15). Our Lord fed five thousand with "five barley loaves and two small fishes" (John 6:9). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Barrel a vessel used for keeping flour (1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16). The same word (cad) so rendered is also translated "pitcher," a vessel for carrying water (Gen. 24:14; Judg. 7:16). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Beryl the rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew word _tarshish_, a precious stone; probably so called as being brought from Tarshish. It was one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:20; R.V. marg., "chalcedony;" 39:13). The colour of the wheels in Ezekiel's vision was as the colour of a beryl stone (1:16; 10:9; R.V., "stone of Tarshish"). It is mentioned in Cant. 5:14; Dan. 10:6; Rev. 21:20. In Ezek. 28:13 the LXX. render the word by "chrysolite," which the Jewish historian Josephus regards as its proper translation. This also is the rendering given in the Authorized Version in the margin. That was a gold-coloured gem, the topaz of ancient authors. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Burial The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver current money with the merchants." Thus the patriarch became the owner of a part of the land of Canaan, the only part he ever possessed. When he himself died, "his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah," beside Sarah his wife (Gen. 25:9). Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried under Allon-bachuth, "the oak of weeping" (Gen. 35:8), near to Bethel. Rachel died, and was buried near Ephrath; "and Jacob set a pillar upon her grave" (16-20). Isaac was buried at Hebron, where he had died (27, 29). Jacob, when charging his sons to bury him in the cave of Machpelah, said, "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah" (49:31). In compliance with the oath which he made him swear unto him (47:29-31), Joseph, assisted by his brethren, buried Jacob in the cave of Machpelah (50:2, 13). At the Exodus, Moses "took the bones of Joseph with him," and they were buried in the "parcel of ground" which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor (Josh. 24:32), which became Joseph's inheritance (Gen. 48:22; 1 Chr. 5:1; John 4:5). Two burials are mentioned as having taken place in the wilderness. That of Miriam (Num. 20:1), and that of Moses, "in the land of Moab" (Deut. 34:5, 6, 8). There is no account of the actual burial of Aaron, which probably, however, took place on the summit of Mount Hor (Num. 20:28, 29). Joshua was buried "in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah" (Josh. 24: 30). In Job we find a reference to burying-places, which were probably the Pyramids (3:14, 15). The Hebrew word for "waste places" here resembles in sound the Egyptian word for "pyramids." Samuel, like Moses, was honoured with a national burial (1 Sam. 25:1). Joab (1 Kings 2:34) "was buried in his own house in the wilderness." In connection with the burial of Saul and his three sons we meet for the first time with the practice of burning the dead (1 Sam. 31:11-13). The same practice is again referred to by Amos (6:10). Absalom was buried "in the wood" where he was slain (2 Sam. 18:17, 18). The raising of the heap of stones over his grave was intended to mark abhorrence of the person buried (comp. Josh. 7:26 and 8:29). There was no fixed royal burying-place for the Hebrew kings. We find several royal burials taking place, however, "in the city of David" (1 Kings 2:10; 11:43; 15:8; 2 Kings 14:19, 20; 15:38; 1 Kings 14:31; 22:50; 2 Chr. 21:19, 20; 2 Chr. 24:25, etc.). Hezekiah was buried in the mount of the sepulchres of the sons of David; "and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death" (2 Chr. 32:33). Little is said regarding the burial of the kings of Israel. Some of them were buried in Samaria, the capital of their kingdom (2 Kings 10:35; 13:9; 14:16). Our Lord was buried in a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, which Joseph of Arimathea had prepared for himself (Matt. 27:57-60; Mark 15:46; John 19:41, 42). The grave of Lazarus was "a cave, and a stone lay on it" (John 11:38). Graves were frequently either natural caverns or artificial excavations formed in the sides of rocks (Gen. 23:9; Matt. 27:60); and coffins were seldom used, unless when the body was brought from a distance. |