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  • BOWYERS
    Manufacturers of bows and shafts. An ancient company of the city of London.
  • BOYCOTT
    A conspiracy formed and intended directly or indirectly to prevent the carrying on of any lawful business, or to injure the business of any one by wrongfully preventing those who would be customers from buying anything from or employing the representatives of said business, by threats, Intimidation, or other forcible More...
  • BOZERO
    In Spanish law. An advocate; one who pleads the causes of others, or his own, before courts of Justice, either as plaintiff or defendant.
  • BRACHIUM MARIS
    An arm of the sea.
  • BRACINUM
    A brewing; the whole quantity of ale brewed at one time, for which tolsestor was paid in some manors. Brecina, a brew-house.
  • BRAHMIN. BRAHMAN, OR BRAMIN
    In Hindu law. A divine; a priest; the first Hindu caste.
  • BRANCH
    An offshoot, lateral extension, or subdivision. A branch of a family stock is a group of persons, related among themselves by descent from a common ancestor, and related to tbe main stock by the fact that that common ancestor descends from the original founder or progenitor. -Branch of the sea. More...
  • BRAND
    To stamp; to mark, either with a hot iron or with a stencil plate. Dibble v. Hathaway, 11 Hun (N. Y.) 575.
  • BRANDING
    An ancient mode of punishment by inflicting a mark on an offender with a hot iron. It Is generally disused In civil law, but is a recognized punishment for some military offenses.
  • BRANKS
    An instrument formerly used in some parts of England for the correction of scolds; a scolding bridle. It inclosed the head and a sharp piece of iron entered the mouth and restrained the tongue.
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