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inscriptions on stone may be effaced, which are rubbed mariner has favorable gales, which keep the sails on the 



off so as not to be visible; cancel is principally confined stretch. A blast is impetuous: the exhalations of a 



to written or printed characters; they are cancelled by trumpet, the breath of bellows, are blasts. A gust is 



striking through them with the pen; letters are oblit- sudden and vehement; storm, tempest, and hurricane 

 erated which are in any way made illegible. 



Bold, Fearless, Intrepid, I'ndaunted. Boldness 



-itive characteristic of the spirit; fearlessness is 



a negative state of the mind, that is, simply an absence 



of fear. A person may be bold through fearlessness. 



but he may be fearless without being bold: he may be 



fearless where there is no apprehension- of danger or 



KM for apprehension, but he is bold only when he 



ion- or apprehensive of danger, and prepared 



inter it. A man is intrepid who has no fear 



where the most fearless might tremble; he is undaunted 



whose spirit is unabated by that which would make the 



est heart yield. 



|{oot>. *>pil, Prey. Booty and spoil are used as 

 military terms in attacks on an enemy, prey in cases of 

 particular violence. The soldier gets his booty; the 

 nit his spoils; the carnivorous animal his prey. 

 Booty respects what is of personal service to the captor; 

 poil* whatever -erves to designate his triumph; prey 

 includes whatever gratifies the appetite and is to be 



rued. 



I r... mid. Limit, Confine. Circumscribe. Re- 

 strict. Bound applies to the natural or political divi- 



include other particulars besides wind. A storm throws 

 the whole atmosphere into commotion; it is a war of 

 the elements, in which wind, rain, hail, and the like, 

 conspire to disturb the heavens. Tempest is a species 

 of storm which has also thunder and lightning to add to 

 the confusion. Hurricane is a species of storm which 

 exceeds all the rest in violence and duration. 



Brightness, l.usii r. Splendor. Brilliancy. Bright- 

 ness and luster are applied projerly to natural lights; 

 splendor and brilliancy have been more commonly 

 applied to that which is artificial or unusual: there 

 is always more or less brightness in the sun or moon; 

 there is an occasional luster in all the heavenly bodies 

 when they shine in their unclouded brightness; there 

 is splendor in the eruptions of flame from a volcano or 

 an immense conflagration; there is brilliancy in a col- 

 lection of diamonds. 



To Bring, Fetch, Carry. To bring is simply to 

 take with one's self from the place where one is; to 

 fetch is to go first to a place and then bring a thing; to 

 fetch, therefore, is a species of bringing: wha 

 near at hand is brought; whatever is at a distance must 

 be fetched; to carry respects always a motion directly 



sions of the earth: countries are bounded by mountains | from the place or at a distance from the place; he carries 



as I a parcel from home. 



re. Whatever is bulky has a promi- 

 what is massive has compactness of 



and seas; limit applies to any artificial boundary: 



landmarks in lieMs serve to show the limits of one man's Bulky 



ground from another. To confine is to bring the limits nence of figure; 



close together; to part off one space absolutely from < matter. 



another: in this manner we confine a garden by means ' Burial. Interment, Sepulture. We bury in order 



of walls. To circumscribe is literally to surround; in i to conceal; interment anu sepulture are accompanied 



this manner a circle may circumscribe a square; to re- with religious ceremonies. Bury is confined to no object 



or place; interment may be used when a body is depos- 

 ited in a vault; sepulture is an abstract term confined to 

 particular cases, as in speaking of the rites and privileges 

 of sepulture. 



Business, Occupation. Km ploy meiit. Kngago- 



a strong degree of control; a person 

 ted by his physician to a certain portion of food 

 in a day. 



Boundless. I'nhonnded. Unlimited, Infinite. 



The ocean is a boundless object so long as no bounds to 

 it have been discovered; desires are often unbounded 

 which ought always to be bounded; power is sometimes 

 unlimited which would be better limited; nothing is 

 infinite but that Being from whom all finite beings 

 proceed. 



Hr.ivr. <;allant. Gallantry is extraordinary bravery 



or hravery on extraordinary occasions: the brave man 



Singly where he is commanded; the gallant man 



leads on with vigor to the attack. Bravery is common 



to vast numbers and whole nations; gallantry is peculiar 



viduals or particular bodies. 



Bravery. Ciuiram>. Valor, 

 blood; courage lies in the mind: 



the reason, the former on the physical temperament 

 the first is a species of instinct; the second is a virtue: 

 a man is brave in proportion as he is without thought; 

 be has courage in proportion as he reasons or reflects. 

 Valor is a higher quality than either bravery or courage, 

 and seems to partake of the gram I characterist ics of both; 

 ;nes the tire of bravery with the determination 

 ami tirmin- of courage. 



b* Break* Gap* Chasm. A breach and a gap 

 are the consequence of a violent removal, which destroys 

 the connection; a break and a chasm may arise from 

 the absence of That which would form a connection. A 



ment. Avocation, Vocation. "Business occupies all 

 a person's thoughts as well as his time and powers: 

 occupation and employment occupy only his time and 

 strength: the first is mostly regular, it is the object of 

 our choice; the second is casual, it depends on the will 

 of another. Engagement is a partial emplo\ment. 

 avocation a particular engagement; vocation is applied 

 to one's regular work; and avocation to the occupation 

 or pleasures that call one away from the regular routine 

 of work. 



Business, Trade. Profession, Art. Buying and 



Bravery lies in the . selling of merchandise is irreparable from trade; but 

 the latter depends on the exercise of one's knowledge and experience for pur- 

 poses of gain constitutes a business; when learning or 

 particular skill i> required, it i- a profession; and when 

 there is a peculiar exercise of art. it is an art. 



Bustle. Tumult. I' proa r. Bustle has most of hurry 

 in it; tumult most of disorder and confusion ; uproar 

 most of noise: the hurried movements of one. or many, 

 cause a bustle; the disorderly strugules of man\ 

 lute a tumult; the loud elevation of many opposing 



breach in a wall is made by means of cannon; gaps in hut 'purchase 

 fences are commonlv the effect of some violent effort familiar application of huy: 

 to pass through; a break is made in a page of printing 

 by leaving ofT m the middle of a line; a chasm is left 

 ng when any words in the sentence are 



voices produces an uproar; uproar is the 

 either of general anger or mirth. 



To Buy. rurclia-e. Bargain. Cheapen. Buy may 

 always be substituted for 



uted for parebaM without impropriety; 

 )uld be sometime* ridiculous in the 

 the necessaries of life are 

 taught; luxuries are purchased; to cheap, 

 to lower the price asked, but to deal in such thine* as 

 are cheap. 



( .il.imil\. IMs.isi.-r. Misfortune. Mi Chance. 

 ..is|,.,p. \ calamity is a great disaster or misfortune; 



. of a body; bruise denotes Mmi.lv ih< : , mi-fortune a great mischance or mishap: whatever is 



continuity of the parts. Hard brittle substances, attended with d. -(ruction is a calamity; whatever 



Mea*ions mi-chief to the P.-I-..II. defeats or int.: 



Brnis... >,,,,,,/,. 

 Break always implies the separation of the component >|i-h.ij>. 



Bn-.iK. 



mil- 

 round, (rush. 



glass, are broken; 



II IP! brittle substances, 

 soft lances, as flesh or 



re bruised; squeeie is used for s,,ft .suhst ;i ,,c,..4 ,, r plans, is a disaster; wh.-r. impanied tatb a loei 



a gentle eompreeMOO. To pound in properly to bruise of prop.-m . or i'.,- dcpn\a(ion of health, i- misfortune. 



J whatever dmum-hiv. the l>eauty or utility of oh,. 



1.1 



a mischance or mishap. 



I,, < ..I. ul. id . 1C.-. Kon. < ..input.'. < until. ! 



in a mortar, so an to produce a separation of parts; 



the most violent and destructive of .. 

 which amounts to the total dispersion of all the ....... 



parts of a body. calculate denotes nny numerical o|oration in general. 



I., r." tki Mm -i. < rack, NdM. To break does but ;* particularly applicable to the abstract science of 



[mrticular manner or form of action; 

 broken may be broken in two or 



thwise. and the like: to l.u 



violence, frequent I v :i 



r former in :i| 

 or the thim: 

 cation to w.>. 



t are modes of breaking length 

 plication to hard or hrittl. 

 made of da\ ; the latter in appli- 

 t which lit made of wood. 



m. i-t. 4. usi. storm, i.mp.-t. 



MM. .m.. gentle: a tale m hrifk. hut 



we have breezes in a calm summer's da'. 



figures: the astronomer calculates the motion- of the 



heavenly hodt.-s; the mathematician make- nlgrhnuc 



calculations; to reckon i- to num.. 



things n komng \* applicable to the ordmnrv 



business of life: tradesmen keep their account- by 



reckoning; children lenrn to recko. 



processes. Calculnt ion i- t hcrefore t lie -cm 



the practical art of .-numeral mt. lo ...mpuie ,- to 



the result by ealeutaUoi tonebyone; 



nil the minutes. 



<.,:,.,, 1. 1. vim. in. . BpbemerU. Tbe calendar 



