n. 1. A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hellebore. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Helleborin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being glebous. [ R. ]

{ } a. [ Cf. L. glaebosus cloddy. ] Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. “Gleby land.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; cf. F. hellébore, ellébore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. Helleborus niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. Helleborus officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially Veratrum album and Veratrum viride, both called white hellebore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. fle`ps, flebo`s + -gram. ] (Physiol.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a vein + -lite, -lith. ] (Med.) A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fle`ps, flebo`s, a vein + -logy. ] A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. phlébotomiste. ] (Med.) One who practiced phlebotomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Phlebotomized p. pr. & vb. n. Phlebotomizing ] [ Cf. F. phlébotomiser. ] To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii.
Syn. -- sandfly fever, pappataci fever. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. [ Capitalized ] A genus of small blood-sucking mothlike sand flies.
Syn. -- genus Phlebotomus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. phlebotomia, Gr. flebotomi`a; fle`ps, flebo`s, a vein + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. phlébotomie. Cf. Fleam. ] (Med.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. (b) Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sadelboga. ] The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 3d scale + board. ] 1. (Print.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shovelboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tablet; a notebook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Whalebone is chiefly obtained from the bowhead, or Greenland, whale, the Biscay whale, and the Antarctic, or southern, whale. It is prepared for manufacture by being softened by boiling, and dyed black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The vertebrae of the back. [ Prov. Eng. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]