The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 59
highs, containing the bowels. Belly-bound, a. Costive. Bellmetal, s. The metal of which bells are made. Belt, s. A girdle ; a cincture. Bellwether, s. A sheep which leads the flock with a bell hung on hisneck. Benzoin, s. Called also Gum Benjamin. It is a yellow resinous sub-stance, and from it… … The Bernacle, (Anas Erythropus, Linn.La Bernacle, Buff.) weighs about fivepounds, and measures more than two feet inlength, and nearly four and a half in breadth.The bill, from the tip to the corners of themouth, is scarcely an inch and a half long,black, and crossed with a pale reddish streakon…
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