Bluefish

A large voracious fish, valued for food, and widely found on the American coast. It is called there the horse mackerel. B (Ua Constrictor. [L.] A large and powerful its_ muscular strength; but other serpents in Asia and Africa which crush their prey are also sometimes called by this name. with a head at one or both ends, and a hole bored through its length. It is used to hold yarn or thread in a shuttle, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, and sewing-machines. Bobbin lace is made on a pillow with bobbins. In the higher animals it is composed of a head, a central part or trunk, and four limbs. When the human body is di ected, or taken to pieces, there is found a hard part or skeleton, composed of about 240 bones; upon these bones lie ma es BoiFing. of red flesh (muscles), by which the bones are moved on the outside of all is a covering called the skin. The limbs are solid, but the trunk and head are hollow, containing certain organs, each of which has its allotted duty or function to per¬ form so long as the body retains life. The muscles are called the organs of locomotion, because it is by their aid that we move about from place to place The chief organ in the head is the brain, contained in the bony box called the skull. The trunk is divided, horizontally, into an upper portion (called the chest') and a lower portion (known as the abdomen). The organs within the chest are the heart and the lungs. I11 the abdo¬ men are situaied the stomach, the intestines, the liver, the pancreas, the spleen, and the kidneys. Bolt.