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word: Blood₂
definition:
Blood

Blood
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Blooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooding.]
1.
To bleed.
[Obs.]
Cowper.

2.
To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
[Archaic]

Reach out their spears afar,
And blood their points.
Dryden.

3.
To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

It was most important too that his troops should be blooded.
Macaulay.

4.
To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
[Obs.]

The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another.
Bacon.


word: bloodbath
definition:
bloodbath

blood"bath`
n.
1.
Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.

Syn. -- bloodletting, bloodshed, battue.

2.
[fig.]
Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss; as, the sudden market drop created a bloodbath among overoptimistic investors.


word: blood berry
definition:
blood berry

bloodberry

blood"ber*ry, blood" ber*ry
n.
A bushy houseplant (Rivina humilis) having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; it is native to the tropical Americas.

Syn. -- rougeberry, rouge plant.


word: Bloodbird
definition:
Bloodbird

Blood"bird`
(blŭd"bẽrd`)
n.
(Zool.)
An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.


word: Blood-boltered
definition:
Blood-boltered

Blood"-bol`tered
(_;)
a.
[Blood + Prov. E. bolter to mat in tufts.  Cf. Balter.]
Having the hair matted with clotted blood.
[Obs. & R.]

The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me.
Shak.


word: bloodcurdling
definition:
bloodcurdling

blood"curd*ling
adj.
causing sudden intense fear due to an apprehension of imminent bodily harm, to oneself or others.
Awakened by a bloodcurdling scream from right outside her window

Syn. -- hair-raising, nightmarish.


word: Blooded
definition:
Blooded

Blood"ed
a.
Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.

&hand_; Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded.


word: Bloodflower
definition:
Bloodflower

Blood"flow`er
(_;)
n.
[From the color of the flower.]
(Bot.)
A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of Hæmanthus toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.


word: Bloodguilty
definition:
Bloodguilty

Blood"guilt`y
(_;)
a.
Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
bloodguilty
Fairfax.
Blood"guilt`i*ness (_;), n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.


word: Bloodhound
definition:
Bloodhound

Blood"hound`
(blŭd"hound`)
n.
A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell.  It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals.  Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves.  Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name.  The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.


word: Bloodiness
definition:
Bloodiness

Blood"i*ness
n.
1.
The state of being bloody.

2.
Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.

All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature.
Holland.


word: Bloodless
definition:
Bloodless

Blood"less
a.
[AS. bl&omacrdleás.]
1.
Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.

The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold.
Dryden.

2.
Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
Froude.

3.
Without spirit or activity.

Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood !
Shak.


word: Bloodlet
definition:
Bloodlet

Blood"let`
(blŭd"lĕt`)
v. t.
[AS. bl&omacrdl&aemacr_;tan; bl&omacrd blood + l&aemacr_;atan to let.]
bleed; to let blood.
Arbuthnot.


word: Bloodletting
definition:
Bloodletting

Blood"let`ting
n.
(Med.)
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.


word: Blood money
definition:
Blood money

Blood" mon`ey
(_;)
1.
Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.

2.
Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.


word: blood-red
definition:
blood-red

blood-red
adj.
having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of cherries or tomatoes or rubies or blood.

Syn. -- red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet.


word: blood-related
definition:
blood-related

blood-related
adj.
1.
related by blood, i.e. by a common genetic heritage.

Syn. -- akin(predicate), cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin(predicate).


word: Bloodroot
definition:
Bloodroot

Blood"root`
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

&hand_; In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery.


word: Bloodshed
definition:
Bloodshed

Blood"shed`
(_;)
n.
[Blood + shed]
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.


word: Bloodshot
definition:
Bloodshot

Blood"shot`
(_;)
a.
[Blood + shot, p. p. of shoot to variegate.]
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.

His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled.
Dickens.


word: bloodstained
definition:
bloodstained

bloodstained
adj.
stained with blood; as, a bloodstained shirt; a bloodstained carpet; a bloodstained sidewalk.


word: Bloodstick
definition:
Bloodstick

Blood"stick"
(_;)
n.
(Far.)
A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.
Youatt.


word: Bloodstone
definition:
Bloodstone

Blood"stone`
(_;)
n.
(Min.)
(a)
A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
(b)
Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.”


word: Bloodstroke
definition:
Bloodstroke

Blood"stroke`
(_;)
n.
[Cf. F. coup de sang.]
Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
Dunglison.


word: Bloodsucker
definition:
Bloodsucker

Blood"suck`er
(_;)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

2.
One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.


word: bloodsucking
definition:
bloodsucking

bloodsucking
adj.
1.
drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of bloodsucking insects.

2.
having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons; as, a bloodsucking blackmailer; bloodsucking lawyers.

Syn. -- parasitic, parasitical, leechlike.


word: Bloodthirsty
definition:
Bloodthirsty

Blood"thirst`y
(_;)
a.
Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a bloodlust.
Blood"thirst`i*ness (_;), n.


word: blood-twig
definition:
blood-twig

blood-twig
n.
1.
a European deciduous shrub (Cornus sanguinea) turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.

Syn. -- common European dogwood, red dogwood, pedwood.


word: Blood vessel
definition:
Blood vessel

Blood" ves`sel
(_;)
(Anat.)
Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.


word: Bloodwit
definition:
Bloodwit

Bloodwite

{ Blood"wite` (_;), Blood"wit` (_;), }
n.
[AS. bl&omacrwīte; bl&omacrd blood, + wīte wite, fine.]
(Anc. Law)
A fine or amercement paid as part of a settlement for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.


word: Bloodwood
definition:
Bloodwood

Blood"wood
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum).


word: Bloodwort
definition:
Bloodwort

Blood"wort`
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.


word: Bloody
definition:
Bloody

Blood"y
(_;)
a.
[AS. bl&omacrdig.]
1.
Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

2.
Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

3.
Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
Shak.

4.
Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

5.
Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
[Vulgar]
Thackeray.


word: Bloody₂
definition:
Bloody

Blood"y
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bloodied (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying.]
To stain with blood.
Overbury.


word: Bloody flux
definition:
Bloody flux

Blood"y flux`
(_;)
The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
Arbuthnot.


word: Bloody hand
definition:
Bloody hand

Blood"y hand`
(_;)
1.
A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.
Jacob.

2.
(Her.)
A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.


word: Bloody-minded
definition:
Bloody-minded

Blood"y-mind"ed
(_;)
a.
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.
Dryden.


word: Bloody sweat
definition:
Bloody sweat

Blood"y sweat`
(_;)
A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.


word: Bloom
definition:
Bloom

Bloom
(_;)
n.
[OE. blome, fr. Icel. bl_;m, bl_;mi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. bl_;ma, OS. bl_;mo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. bl_;wan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom.]
1.
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

The rich blooms of the tropics.
Prescott.

2.
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
bloom
Milton.

3.
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
Hawthorne.

4.
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.
Thackeray.

5.
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

6.
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Knight.

7.
(Min.)
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.


word: Bloom₂
definition:
Bloom

Bloom
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bloomed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blooming.]
1.
To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

A flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom.
Milton.

2.
To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

A better country blooms to view,
Beneath a brighter sky.
Logan.


word: Bloom₃
definition:
Bloom

Bloom
v. t.
1.
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
[R.]

Charitable affection bloomed them.
Hooker.

2.
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
[R.]
Milton.

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
Keats.


word: Bloom₄
definition:
Bloom

Bloom
n.
[AS. bl_;ma a mass or lump, īsenes bl_;ma a lump or wedge of iron.]
(Metal.)
(a)
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
(b)
A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.


word: Bloomer
definition:
Bloomer

Bloom"er
(_;)
n.
[From Mrs. Bloomer, an American, who sought to introduce this style of dress.]
1.
A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

2.
A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.


word: Bloomery
definition:
Bloomery

Bloom"er*y
(_;)
n.
(Manuf.)
A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.


word: Blooming₂
definition:
Blooming

Bloom"ing
a.
1.
Opening in blossoms; flowering.

2.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.


word: Bloomy
definition:
Bloomy

Bloom"y
(_;)
a.
1.
Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.

But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Goldsmith.

2.
Covered with bloom, as fruit.
Dryden.


word: Blooth
definition:
Blooth

Blooth
(_;)
n.
Bloom; a blossoming.
[Prov. Eng.]

All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.
T. Hardy.


word: Blore
definition:
Blore

Blore
(_;)
n.
[Perh. a variant of blare, v. i.; or cf. Gael. & Ir. blor a loud noise.]
The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
[Obs.]

A most tempestuous blore.
Chapman.


word: Blossom
definition:
Blossom

Blos"som
(bl&obreve_;s"sŭm)
n.
[OE. blosme, blostme, AS. bl&omacrsma, bl&omacrstma, blossom; akin to D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Bloom a blossom.]
1.
The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

&hand_; The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla. It is more commonly used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.

Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day.
Longfellow.

2.
A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.

In the blossom of my youth.
Massinger.

3.
The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.

In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom.


word: Blossom₂
definition:
Blossom

Blos"som
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Blossomed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blossoming.]
[AS. bl_;stmian. See Blossom, n.]
1.
To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

The moving whisper of huge trees that branched
And blossomed.
Tennyson.

2.
To flourish and prosper; to develop into a superior type.

Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit.
Isa. xxvii. 6.

3.
to appear or grow as if by blossoming; to spread out rapidly.


word: blossoming
definition:
blossoming

blossoming
n.
the process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.

Syn. -- flowering, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence.


word: Blot
definition:
Blot

Blot
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Blotted (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.]
[Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]

1.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
Gascoigne.

2.
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
Shak.

3.
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
Rowe.

4.
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
Dryden.

5.
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
Cowley.

6.
To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.


word: Blot₃
definition:
Blot

Blot
n.
[Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]
1.
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
blots
Shak.

2.
An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
Dryden.

3.
A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Shak.


word: Blot₄
definition:
Blot

Blot
n.
[Cf. Dan. blot bare, naked, Sw. blott, d. bloot, G. bloss, and perh. E. bloat.]
1.
(Backgammon)
(a)
An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
(b)
A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit.
Dryden.

2.
A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.


word: Blotch
definition:
Blotch

Blotch
(_;)
n.
[Cf. OE. blacche in blacchepot blacking pot, akin to black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a spot.]
1.
A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

Spots and blotches . . . some red, others yellow.
Harvey.

2.
(Med.)
A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

Foul scurf and blotches him defile.
Thomson.


word: Blotched
definition:
Blotched

Blotched
(_;)
a.
Marked or covered with blotches.

To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease.
Drayton.


word: Blote
definition:
Blote

Blote
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloting.]
[Cf. Sw. blöt-fisk soaked fish, fr. blöta to soak. See 1st Bloat.]
To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
[Obs.]


word: Blotter
definition:
Blotter

Blot"ter
(bl&obreve_;t"tẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

2.
(Com.)
A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.


word: Blottesque
definition:
Blottesque

Blot*tesque"
(bl&obreve_;t*tĕsk")
a.
(Painting)
Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
Ruskin.


word: Blotting paper
definition:
Blotting paper

Blot"ting pa`per
(pā`pẽr)
A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from a freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.


word: Blouse
definition:
Blouse

Blouse
(blouz; F. blōz)
n.
[F. blouse. Of unknown origin.]
A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.


word: bloviate
definition:
bloviate

blo"vi*ate
(bl&omacr"vĭ*āt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. bloviated (bl&omacr"vĭ*ā*tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. bloviating (bl&omacr"vĭ*ā*tĭng).]
To orate pompously; -- used especially of politicians and news commentators.
Frank Rich (N. Y. Times Jan. 6, 1999, p. A23)
blo"vi*a*tor, n. -- blo"vi*a*tion, n.

“We've had almost three weeks of lawyers bloviating about what the facts in the case are,” Mr. Rogan said.  “Wouldn't it be easier to bring the witnesses?”
Quoted by Eric Schmitt in The New York Times, Jan 22, 1999, p. A15.


word: Blow
definition:
Blow

Blow
(bl&omacr)
v. i.
[imp. Blew (blū); p. p. Blown (bl&omacrn); p. pr. & vb. n. Blowing.]
[OE. blowen, AS. bl&omacrwan to blossom; akin to OS. bl&omacrjan, D. bloeijen, OHG. pluojan, MHG. blüejen, G. blühen, L. florere to flourish, OIr. blath blossom. Cf. Blow to puff, Flourish.]
To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

How blows the citron grove.
Milton.


word: Blow₂
definition:
Blow

Blow
v. t.
To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).

The odorous banks, that blow
Flowers of more mingled hue.
Milton.


word: Blow₃
definition:
Blow

Blow
n.
(Bot.)
A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
blow
Tatler.


word: Blow₄
definition:
Blow

Blow
n.
[OE. blaw, blowe; cf. OHG. bliuwan, pliuwan, to beat, G. bläuen, Goth. bliggwan.]
1.
A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.

Well struck ! there was blow for blow.
Shak.

2.
A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.

A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp].
T. Arnold.

3.
The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.

A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows.
Shak.

At a blow, suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. “They lose a province at a blow.” Dryden. -- To come to blows, to engage in combat; to fight; -- said of individuals, armies, and nations.


word: Blow₅
definition:
Blow

Blow
v. i.
[imp. Blew (blū); p. p. Blown (bl&omacrn); p. pr. & vb. n. Blowing.]
[OE. blawen, blowen, AS. blāwan to blow, as wind; akin to OHG. plājan, G. blähen, to blow up, swell, L. flare to blow, Gr. 'ekflai`nein to spout out, and to E. bladder, blast, inflate, etc., and perh. blow to bloom.]
1.
To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.

Hark how it rains and blows !
Walton.

2.
To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.

3.
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.

Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing.
Shak.

4.
To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.

There let the pealing organ blow.
Milton.

5.
To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

6.
To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.

The grass blows from their graves to thy own.
M. Arnold.

7.
To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
[Colloq.]

You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face.
Bartlett.

8.
To stop functioning due to a failure in an electrical circuit, especially on which breaks the circuit; sometimes used with out; -- used of light bulbs, electronic components, fuses; as, the dome light in the car blew out.

9.
To deflate by sudden loss of air; usually used with out; -- of inflatable tires.

To blow hot and cold (a saying derived from a fable of Æsop's), to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. “The enemy's magazines blew up.”  Tatler.


word: Blow₆
definition:
Blow

Blow
v. t.
1.
To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.

2.
To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.

Off at sea northeast winds blow
Sabean odors from the spicy shore.
Milton.

3.
To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ; to blow a horn.

Hath she no husband
That will take pains to blow a horn before her?
Shak.

Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise,
Then cast it off to float upon the skies.
Parnell.

4.
To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.

5.
To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

6.
To spread by report; to publish; to disclose; to reveal, intentionally or inadvertently; as, to blow an agent's cover.

Through the court his courtesy was blown.
Dryden.

His language does his knowledge blow.
Whiting.

7.
To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.

8.
To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.

Look how imagination blows him.
Shak.

9.
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
Sir W. Scott.

10.
To deposit eggs or larvæ upon, or in (meat, etc.).

To suffer
The flesh fly blow my mouth.
Shak.

11.
To perform an act of fellatio on; to stimulate another's penis with one's mouth; -- usually considered vulgar.
[slang]

12.
to smoke (e. g. marijuana); to blow pot.
[colloq.]

13.
to botch; to bungle; as, he blew his chance at a good job by showing up late for the interview.
[colloq.]

14.
to leave; to depart from; as, to blow town.
[slang]

15.
to squander; as, he blew his inheritance gambling.
[colloq.]

To blow great guns, to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast. -- To blow off, to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler. -- To blow one's own trumpet, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. -- To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. -- To blow up. (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to blow one up with flattery. “Blown up with high conceits engendering pride.” Milton. (c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention. (d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster]
-- To blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb.
[1913 Webster]
A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.


word: Blow₇
definition:
Blow

Blow
(_;)
n.
1.
A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.

2.
The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.

3.
The spouting of a whale.

4.
(Metal.)
A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
Raymond.

5.
An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
Chapman.


word: Blowball
definition:
Blowball

Blow"ball`
(_;)
n.
The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
B. Jonson.


word: blow-by
definition:
blow-by

blowby

blow"by`, blow"-by`
(bl&omacr"bī`)
n.
the leakage of gases from the combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine between the piston and cylinder wall into the crankcase.


word: Blowess
definition:
Blowess

Blowen

{ Blow"en (_;), Blow"ess (_;), }
n.
A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
[Low]
Smart.


word: Blower
definition:
Blower

Blow"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, blows.

2.
(Mech.)
A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

3.
A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

4.
The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

5.
(Zool.)
A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

6.
A braggart, or loud talker.
[Slang]
Bartlett.


word: blowfish
definition:
blowfish

blow"fish
n.
1.
a fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan.  It is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison (tetrodotoxin) in its ovaries and liver.  Chefs require special training to learn how to remove the poisonous parts, and in Japan they must be licensed.
In Japan it is called fugu.  Deaths due to ingestion of the meat of this fish occur almost every year.

Syn. -- sea squab, puffer, puffer fish.

2.
any of numerous marine fishes of the family Tetraodontidae whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain tetrodotoxin, a potent nerve poison; they are closely related to spiny puffers.

Syn. -- puffer, globefish.


word: Blowfly
definition:
Blowfly

Blow"fly`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.


word: Blowgun
definition:
Blowgun

Blow"gun`
(_;)
n.
A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow (sometimes poisoned) or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube.  See Sumpitan.


word: blowhard
definition:
blowhard

blow"hard
n.
a very boastful and talkative person.

Syn. -- braggart, boaster, line-shooter, vaunter.


word: Blowhole
definition:
Blowhole

Blow"hole`
(_;)
n.
1.
A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

2.
A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

&hand_; There are two spiracles or blowholes in the common whales, but only one in sperm whales, porpoises, etc.

3.
A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

4.
(Founding)
An air hole in a casting.


word: blowing₂
definition:
blowing

blowing
adj. prenom.
1.
windy.

Syn. -- blustering(prenominal), blusterous, blustery, gusty.


word: blow job
definition:
blow job

blowjob

blow"job`, blow" job`
n.
An act of fellatio, a form of oral sex; --  a slang term.  See blow{11}, v. i.
[Vulgar slang]

Syn. -- cock sucking.


word: Blown
definition:
Blown

Blown
(_;)
p. p. & a.
1.
Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

2.
Stale; worthless.

3.
Out of breath; tired; exhausted.
Sir W. Scott.

4.
Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies; fly blown.


word: Blow-off
definition:
Blow-off

Blow"-off`
(_;)
n.
1.
A blowing off steam, water, etc.;
adj. as, a blow-off cock or pipe.

2.
An outburst of temper or excitement.
[Colloq.]


word: Blow-out
definition:
Blow-out

Blow"-out`
(_;)
n.
The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.


word: blowout
definition:
blowout

blowout
n.
1.
a gay or lavish festivity.
[colloq.]

Syn. -- gala, gala affair, jamboree.

2.
the sudden deflation of an inflatable tire due to a puncture or rupture, often accompanied by a bang.

3.
the sudden escape of gas or liquid confined under pressure, such as in a gas or oil well, or in a system containing pressurized air or steam.


word: Blowpipe
definition:
Blowpipe

Blow"pipe`
(_;)
n.
1.
A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.

&hand_; It is called a mouth blowpipe when used with the mouth; but for both chemical and industrial purposes, it is often worked by a bellows or other contrivance. The common mouth blowpipe is a tapering tube with a very small orifice at the end to be inserted in the flame. The oxyhydrogen blowpipe, invented by Dr. Hare in 1801, is an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, taken from separate reservoirs, in the proportions of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen, are burned in a jet, under pressure. It gives a heat that will consume the diamond, fuse platinum, and dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances.

2.
A blowgun; a blowtube.

Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. -- Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.


word: Blowth
definition:
Blowth

Blowth
(_;)
n.
[From Blow to blossom: cf. Growth.]
A blossoming; a bloom.
[Obs. or Archaic]
blowth
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Blowtube
definition:
Blowtube

Blow"tube`
(_;)
n.
1.
A blowgun.
Tylor.

2.
A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

3.
(Glassmaking)
A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of “metal” (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.


word: Blowze
definition:
Blowze

Blowze
(_;)
n.
[Prob. from the same root as blush.]
A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Blowzed
definition:
Blowzed

Blowzed
(_;)
a.
Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.

Huge women blowzed with health and wind.
Tennyson.


word: Blubber
definition:
Blubber

Blub"ber
(_;)
n.
[See Blobber, Blob, Bleb.]

1.
A bubble.

At his mouth a blubber stood of foam.
Henryson.

2.
The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

3.
(Zool.)
A large sea nettle or medusa.


word: Blubber₂
definition:
Blubber

Blub"ber
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Blubbered (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blubbering.]
To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.

She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair.
Swift.


word: Blubber₃
definition:
Blubber

Blub"ber
v. t.
1.
To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face!
Prior.

2.
To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.


word: Blubbering
definition:
Blubbering

Blub"ber*ing
n.
The act of weeping noisily.

He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him.
Winthrop.


word: Blubbery
definition:
Blubbery

Blub"ber*y
(_;)
a.
1.
Swollen; protuberant.

2.
Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.


word: bluchers
definition:
bluchers

blucher

blu"cher, blu"chers
(blū"kẽr)
n.
A kind of half boot, or high shoe, with laces over the tongue; -- named from the Prussian general Blücher.
Thackeray.


word: Bludgeon
definition:
Bludgeon

Bludg"eon
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Ir. blocan a little block, Gael. plocan a mallet, W. plocyn, dim. of ploc block; or perh. connected with E. blow a stroke. Cf. Block, Blow a stroke.]
A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.


word: Blue
definition:
Blue

Blue
(blū)
a.
[Compar. Bluer (blū"ẽr); superl. Bluest.]
[OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black, fr. Icel.blār livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. blå, D. blauw, OHG. blāo, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. blāo.]
1.
Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
blue
Milton.

2.
Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

3.
Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

4.
Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
[Colloq.]

5.
Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

6.
Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
[Colloq.]

The ladies were very blue and well informed.
Thackeray.

Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite. -- Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygmæus); also applied to a larger species (Ægoceras leucophæus); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus). -- Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal. -- Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low spirits.  “Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?” Thackeray. -- Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum. -- Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.] -- Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations. -- Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes. -- Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. McElrath. -- Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue Monday, (a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). (b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend. -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass. -- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. “These [scholarships] were the blue ribbon of the college.” Farrar. (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. -- Blue water, the open ocean. -- Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation. [Wall Street slang.] PJC -- To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected. -- True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

For his religion . . . 
'T was Presbyterian, true blue.
Hudibras.


word: Blue₂
definition:
Blue

Blue
(blū)
n.
1.
One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color.
Sometimes,
poetically
the sky; as, to fly off into the blue.

2.
A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
[Colloq.]

3.
pl.
[Short for blue devils.]
Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
[Colloq.]

Berlin blue, Prussian blue. -- Mineral blue. See under Mineral. -- Prussian blue. See under Prussian.


word: Blue₃
definition:
Blue

Blue
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Blued (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bluing.]
To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.


word: Blueback
definition:
Blueback

Blue"back`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
(b)
A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.
(c)
An American river herring (Clupea æstivalis), closely allied to the alewife.


word: Bluebeard
definition:
Bluebeard

Blue"beard
(_;)
n.
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look.
Carlyle.


word: Bluebell
definition:
Bluebell

Blue"bell`
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
(b)
A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).


word: Blueberry
definition:
Blueberry

Blue"berry
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Blaeberry.]
(Bot.)
The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets.  The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans.  Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.


word: Bluebill
definition:
Bluebill

Blue"bill`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A duck of the genus Fuligula.  Two American species (Fuligula marila and Fuligula affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.


word: Bluebird
definition:
Bluebird

Blue"bird`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.

Pairy bluebird (Zool.), a brilliant Indian or East Indian bird of the genus Irena, of several species.


word: blue-blind
definition:
blue-blind

blue-blind
adj.
unable to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow.

Syn. -- tritanopic.


word: Blue blood
definition:
Blue blood

Blue blood
(blū"blŭd`)
n.
1.
a member of the nobility or aristocracy, or a person of high social status.

2.
the quality of status that qualifies one as a blue blood; -- used metaphorically, as “They have blue blood in their veins.”.

Blue"-blood`ed, adj.


word: blue-blooded
definition:
blue-blooded

blue-blooded
adj.
of aristocratic birth and refined upbringing.

Syn. -- aristocratic, coroneted, gentle, highborn, patrician, titled, wellborn, upper-class.


word: Blue-bonnet
definition:
Blue-bonnet

Blue bonnet

{ Blue" bon`net or Blue"-bon`net  }
(_;)
n.
1.
A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.

2.
(Bot.)
A plant. Same as Bluebottle.

3.
(Zool.)
The European blue titmouse (Parus cœruleus); the bluecap.


word: Blue book
definition:
Blue book

Blue" book`
(_;)
1.
A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
[Eng.]

2.
The United States official “Biennial Register.”


word: blue-bottle
definition:
blue-bottle

Bluebottle

Blue"bot`tle
blue-bottle
(_;)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
an annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.  Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers

Syn. -- cornflower, bachelor's button.

2.
(Zool.)
A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.


word: Bluecap
definition:
Bluecap

Blue"cap`
(_;)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The bluepoll.
(b)
The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.

2.
A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.
[Poetic]
Shak.


word: blue-collar
definition:
blue-collar

blue-collar
adj.
1.
of or designating work or workers in industry not requiring well-groomed appearance.
industrial
white-collar

2.
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.
lower-class, low-class

Syn. -- propertyless, wage-earning, working-class.


word: Blue-eyed
definition:
Blue-eyed

Blue"-eyed`
(_;)
a.
1.
Having blue eyes.

2.
favorite.
[informal]

Syn. -- fair-haired(prenominal), white-headed(prenominal).


word: Blue-eyed grass
definition:
Blue-eyed grass

Blue-eyed grass
(_;)
(Bot.)
a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.


word: Bluefin
definition:
Bluefin

Blue"fin`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.


word: Bluefish
definition:
Bluefish

Blue"fish`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
1.
A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidæ, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

2.
A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridæ.

&hand_; The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.


word: Bluegown
definition:
Bluegown

Blue"gown`
(_;)
n.
One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.


word: Blue grass
definition:
Blue grass

Blue" grass`
(_;)
(Bot.)
A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.

Kentucky blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious.


word: Blue-grass State
definition:
Blue-grass State

Blue-grass State
The Sate of Kentucky; -- a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses are bred.


word: blue-green alga
definition:
blue-green alga

blue"-green al"ga
pl. blue"-green al"gae
[from the color and resemblance to algae.]
any of a group of photosynthetic microorganisms possessing characteristics of both bacteria and plants.  When classed as bacteria, they are assigned to the Cyanobacteria; when classed as plants, they are assigned to the Cyanophyta.  They are now known to be prokaryotic, and are usually called cyanobacteria in technical contexts.  See cyanobacterium.


word: Blue Hen State
definition:
Blue Hen State

Blue Hen State
The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.


word: Blue jay
definition:
Blue jay

Blue" jay`
(_;)
(Zool.)
The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.


word: blue jeans
definition:
blue jeans

blue" jeans`
(_;)
n. pl.
a tight-fitting trousers made of blue denim or a similar fabric, designed originally to serve as inexpensive durable workclothes, and often having metal rivets for reinforcement.  They have become very popular as casual wear for all age groups, and more expensive and more carefully styled and tailored versions called designer jeanshave also become popular among girls and women.

Syn. -- jeans, Levis.


word: Blue-john
definition:
Blue-john

Blue"-john`
(_;)
n.
A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.


word: blue moon
definition:
blue moon

blue moon"
(_;)
The second full moon occurring in the same month; -- derived from the expression once in a blue moon; as, we had a blue moon on January 31, 1999, and another in March.

once in a blue moon very rarely; -- from the observation that the moon rarely has a bluish tint. In 1980, the phrase blue moon was applied to the second full moon of any month, because this phenomenon is unusual.  This new meaning for blue moon, a long time, used primarily in the phrase once in a blue moon, has become widely accepted.


word: Bluenoser
definition:
Bluenoser

Bluenose

Blue"nose`
(?)
n.
A nickname for a Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er (_;)); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.


word: blue-pencil
definition:
blue-pencil

blue-pencil
v. t.
to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.


word: Bluepoll
definition:
Bluepoll

Blue"poll`
(_;)
n.
[Blue + poll head.]
(Zool.)
A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.


word: blue-ribbon
definition:
blue-ribbon

blue-ribbon
adj. prenom.
selected or chosen for special qualifications; as, a blue-ribbon grand jury.

Syn. -- blue ribbon(predicate), select.


word: blues
definition:
blues

blues
n.
a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.

2.
a state of depression; as, he had a bad case of the blues.

Syn. -- megrims.


word: Blue-skylaw
definition:
Blue-skylaw

Blue"-sky"law`
A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are as boundless or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon.
[Colloq.]


word: bluestem
definition:
bluestem

bluestem
n.
tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in Western U.S.

Syn. -- blue stem, Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii.


word: Bluestocking
definition:
Bluestocking

Blue"stock`ing
(_;)
n.
1.
A literary lady; a female pedant.
[Colloq.]

&hand_; As explained in Boswell's “Life of Dr. Johnson”, this term is derived from the name given to certain meetings held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always wore blue stockings. He was so much distinguished for his conversational powers that his absence at any time was felt to be a great loss, so that the remark became common, “We can do nothing without the blue stockings.” Hence these meetings were sportively called bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them, bluestockings.

2.
(Zool.)
The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).


word: Bluestockingism
definition:
Bluestockingism

Blue"stock`ing*ism
(_;)
n.
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
[Colloq.]


word: Bluestone
definition:
Bluestone

Blue"stone`
(_;)
n.
1.
Blue vitriol.
Dunglison.

2.
A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.


word: Bluethroat
definition:
Bluethroat

Blue"throat`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.


word: Bluets
definition:
Bluets

Blu"ets
(_;)
n.
[F. bluet, bleuet, dim. of bleu blue. See Blue, a.]
(Bot.)
A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia cœrulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.


word: blueweed
definition:
blueweed

blue"weed
n.
a coarse prickly European weed (Echium vulgare) with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in the U. S.

Syn. -- blue devil, blue thistle, viper's bugloss.


word: Bluey₂
definition:
Bluey

Blue"y
(?)
n.
[From Blue, a.]
[Australasia]
1.
A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color.

We had to wring our blueys.
Lawson.

2.
A bushman's bundle; a swag; -- so called because a blanket is sometimes used as the outside covering.


word: Bluff
definition:
Bluff

Bluff
(_;)
a.
[Cf. OD. blaf flat, broad, blaffaert one with a broad face, also, a boaster; or G. verblüffen to confuse, LG. bluffen to frighten; to unknown origin.]
1.
Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
Bluff
Irving.

2.
Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
bluff
Falconer.

Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect.
Judd.

3.
Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

4.
Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.
Bluff
Sir W. Scott.

There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise.
I. Taylor.


word: Bluff₂
definition:
Bluff

Bluff
n.
1.
A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

Beach, bluff, and wave, adieu.
Whittier.

2.
An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.

3.
A game at cards; poker.
[U.S.]
Bartlett.


word: Bluff₃
definition:
Bluff

Bluff
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bluffed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bluffing.]
1.
(Poker)
To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.
[U. S.]

2.
To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.
[Colloq.]


word: Bluing
definition:
Bluing

Blu"ing
(_;)
n.
1.
The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
Tomlinson.

2.
Something, as indigo or other preparations, used to give a bluish tint, especially to white clothing when being washed.


word: Bluish
definition:
Bluish

Blu"ish
(_;)
a.
Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.
Bluish
Dryden.
Blu"ish*ly, adv. -- Blu"ish*ness, n.


word: Blunder
definition:
Blunder

Blun"der
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Blundered (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering.]
[OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.]
1.
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
Swift.

2.
To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
Goldsmith.

Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,
And blunders on, and staggers every pace.
Dryden.

To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.


word: Blunder₂
definition:
Blunder

Blun"der
v. t.
1.
To cause to blunder.
[Obs.]
blunder
Ditton.

2.
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

He blunders and confounds all these together.
Stillingfleet.


word: Blunder₃
definition:
Blunder

Blun"der
n.
1.
Confusion; disturbance.
[Obs.]

2.
A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.


word: Blunderbuss
definition:
Blunderbuss

Blun"der*buss
(_;)
n.
[Either fr. blunder + D. bus tube, box, akin to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus (literally) thunder box, gun, musket.]
1.
A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

2.
A stupid, blundering fellow.


word: Blunger
definition:
Blunger

Blun"ger
(_;)
n.
[Corrupted from plunger.]
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi_;ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
Tomlinson.


word: Blunt
definition:
Blunt

Blunt
(blŭnt)
a.
[Cf.  Prov. G. bludde a dull or blunt knife, Dan. blunde to sleep, Sw. & Icel. blunda; or perh. akin to E. blind.]
1.
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
Shak.

2.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.

His wits are not so blunt.
Shak.

3.
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
blunt
blunt
Shak.

4.
Hard to impress or penetrate.
[R.]

I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
Pope.

&hand_; Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged, blunt-sighted, blunt-spoken.


word: Blunt₂
definition:
Blunt

Blunt
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Blunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blunting.]
1.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
Shak.

2.
To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.


word: Blunt₃
definition:
Blunt

Blunt
n.
1.
A fencer's foil.
[Obs.]

2.
A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

3.
Money.
[Cant]
Beaconsfield.


word: blunted
definition:
blunted

blunted
adj.
1.
made dull or blunt.

Syn. -- dulled.

2.
reduced in force or effectiveness.


word: Bluntly
definition:
Bluntly

Blunt"ly
adv.
In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations.
Jeffrey.


word: Bluntness
definition:
Bluntness

Blunt"ness
n.
1.
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; lack of sharpness.

The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles.
Holland.

2.
Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
Bluntness
Boyle.


word: Blur
definition:
Blur

Blur
(blûr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Blurred (blûrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Blurring.]
[Prob. of same origin as blear. See Blear.]
1.
To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor
Which then he wore.
Shak.

2.
To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
J. R. Drake.

3.
To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

Sarcasms may eclipse thine own,
But can not blur my lost renown.
Hudibras.


word: Blur₂
definition:
Blur

Blur
(blûr)
n.
1.
That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse.
Fuller.

2.
A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

3.
A moral stain or blot.

Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name.
Udall.


word: blurred
definition:
blurred

blurred
(blûrd)
adj.
out of focus; not sharply defined.

Syn. -- bleary, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy.


word: Blurt
definition:
Blurt

Blurt
(blûrt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Blurted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blurting.]
[Cf. Blare.]
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they are forced to eat.
Hakewill.

To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.


word: Blush
definition:
Blush

Blush
(blŭsh)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Blushed (blŭsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing.]
[OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, ābl&ymacr_;sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.]

1.
To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

To the nuptial bower
I led her blushing like the morn.
Milton.

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.
Buckminster.

He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous worth,
That blushed at its own praise.
Cowper.

2.
To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set,
But stayed, and made the western welkin blush.
Shak.

3.
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
T. Gray.


word: Blush₂
definition:
Blush

Blush
v. t.
1.
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
[Obs.]

To blush and beautify the cheek again.
Shak.

2.
To express or make known by blushing.

I'll blush you thanks.
Shak.


word: Blush₃
definition:
Blush

Blush
n.
1.
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

The rosy blush of love.
Trumbull.

2.
A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
Lyttleton.

At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. “At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France.” Hakluyt. This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. “All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,” etc. Locke. -- To put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.


word: Blushful
definition:
Blushful

Blush"ful
(_;)
a.
Full of blushes.

While from his ardent look the turning Spring
Averts her blushful face.
Thomson.


word: Blushing
definition:
Blushing

Blush"ing
a.
Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.

The dappled pink and blushing rose.
Prior.


word: Blushing₂
definition:
Blushing

Blush"ing
n.
The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.


word: Blushingly
definition:
Blushingly

Blush"ing*ly
adv.
In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.


word: Blushless
definition:
Blushless

Blush"less
a.
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.

Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise.
Dodsley.


word: Bluster
definition:
Bluster

Blus"ter
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Blustered (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blustering.]
[Allied to blast.]

1.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

And ever-threatening storms
Of Chaos blustering round.
Milton.

2.
To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.

Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
Burke.


word: Bluster₂
definition:
Bluster

Blus"ter
v. t.
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.

He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy.
Sir T. More.

As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
Fuller.


word: Bluster₃
definition:
Bluster

Blus"ter
n.
1.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

To the winds they set
Their corners, when with bluster to confound
Sea, air, and shore.
Milton.

2.
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
L'Estrange.


word: Blustering
definition:
Blustering

Blus"ter*ing
a.
1.
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.

A tempest and a blustering day.
Shak.

2.
Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
blustering
L'Estrange.


word: BM
definition:
BM

BM
n.
an abbreviation for bowel movement; -- used as an informal euphemism, especially in hospitals.
[informal, abbrev.]


word: BMW
definition:
BMW

BMW
n.
any automobile manufactured by the German firm BMW AG (from the German Bayerische MotorWerke); -- sometimes referred to colloquially as a beemer.
[abbrev.]


word: Bo
definition:
Bo

Bo
(_;)
interj.
[Cf. W. bw, an interj. of threatening or frightening; n., terror, fear, dread.]
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
[Spelt also boh and boo.]


word: Boa
definition:
Boa

Bo"a
(b&omacr"ȧ)
n.
pl. Boas.
[L. boa a kind of water serpent. Perh. fr. bos an ox.]
1.
(Zool.)
A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (Boa imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (Boa eques).

&hand_; The name is also applied to related genera; as, the dog-headed boa (Xiphosoma caninum).

2.
A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.


word: Boa constrictor
definition:
Boa constrictor

Bo"a con*strict"or
(_;)
[NL. See Boa, and Constrictor.]
(Zool.)
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

&hand_; It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to those of the genus Python, found in Asia and Africa.


word: Boanerges
definition:
Boanerges

Bo`a*ner"ges
(_;)
[Gr. _;, fr. Heb. bnē hargem sons of thunder. -- an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17.]
Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.


word: Boar
definition:
Boar

Boar
(b&omacrr)
n.
[OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. bār; akin to OHG. pēr, MHG. bēr, G. bär, boar (but not bär bear), and perh. Russ. borov' boar.]
(Zool.)
The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.


word: Board
definition:
Board

Board
(b&omacrrd)
n.
[OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. borð board, side of a ship, Goth. f&omacrtu-baurd footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. √92.]
1.
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

&hand_; When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank.

2.
A table to put food upon.

&hand_; The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles.
Halliwell.

Fruit of all kinds . . . 
She gathers, tribute large, and on the board
Heaps with unsparing hand.
Milton.

3.
Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

4.
A table at which a council or court is held.
Hence:
A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.

Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board.
Clarendon.

We may judge from their letters to the board.
Porteus.

5.
A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

6.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

7.
pl.
The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

8.
[In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. Border.]
The border or side of anything.
(Naut.)
(a)
The side of a ship.
board
board
Dryden.
See On board, below.
(b)
The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

&hand_; Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure.

The American Board, a shortened form of “The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions” (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches). -- Bed and board. See under Bed. -- Board and board (Naut.), side by side. -- Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. Stormonth. -- Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. Haldeman. -- Board of trade, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce. -- Board wages. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. Dryden. -- By the board, over the board, or side. “The mast went by the board.” Totten. Hence (Fig.), To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow. -- To enter on the boards, to have one's name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [Cambridge, England.] “Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college.” Hallam. -- To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward. -- To make short boards, to tack frequently. -- On board. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [Colloq. U. S.] -- Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [U.S.]


word: Board₂
definition:
Board

Board
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boarding.]
1.
To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
boarded
Cowper.

2.
[Cf. Board to accost, and see Board, n.]
To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.

You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.
Totten.

3.
To enter, as a railway car.
[Colloq. U. S.]

4.
To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

5.
To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.


word: Board₃
definition:
Board

Board
(b&omacrrd)
v. i.
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house.
Spectator.


word: Board₄
definition:
Board

Board
v. t.
[F. aborder. See Abord, v. t.]
To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
[Obs.]

I will board her, though she chide as loud
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
Shak.


word: Boarder
definition:
Boarder

Board"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

2.
(Naut.)
One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
Totten.


word: Boarding
definition:
Boarding

Board"ing
n.
1.
(Naut.)
The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.

Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate.
Sir F. Drake.

2.
The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

3.
The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.

Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.


word: boardinghouse
definition:
boardinghouse

boardinghouse
n.
a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.

Syn. -- boarding house.


word: boardroom
definition:
boardroom

boardroom
n.
a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).

Syn. -- council chamber.


word: boards
definition:
boards

boards
n.
1.
the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.

2.
the stage; as, to walk the boards, i.e. to act on stage.

3.
board examinations (in a profession, as in medicine); -- an informal contraction; as, to take the boards; he flunked the boards.


word: boardwalk
definition:
boardwalk

board"walk
n.
a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at a seaside.  The more elaborate boardwalks at shore resorts are lined with many commercial retail establishments, on the side of the walk opposite the ocean.


word: Boarfish
definition:
Boarfish

Boar"fish`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
(b)
An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.


word: Boast
definition:
Boast

Boast
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Boasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boasting.]
[OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English.]
1.
To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph. ii. 8, 9.

2.
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

In God we boast all the day long.
Ps. xliv. 8


word: Boast₂
definition:
Boast

Boast
v. t.
1.
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

Lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds.
Milton.

2.
To display vaingloriously.

3.
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]

Boast not thyself of to-morrow.
Prov. xxvii. 1


word: Boast₃
definition:
Boast

Boast
v. t.
[Of uncertain etymology.]
1.
(Masonry)
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
Weale.

2.
(Sculp.)
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.


word: Boast₄
definition:
Boast

Boast
n.
1.
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

Reason and morals? and where live they most,
In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!
Byron.

2.
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

The boast of historians.
Macaulay.


word: Boastful
definition:
Boastful

Boast"ful
(_;)
a.
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.


word: Boasting
definition:
Boasting

Boast"ing
n.
The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

When boasting ends, then dignity begins.
Young.


word: Boat
definition:
Boat

Boat
(b&omacrt)
n.
[OE. boot, bat, AS. bāt; akin to Icel. bātr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]

1.
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

&hand_; Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.

2.
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc.  The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

3.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

&hand_; Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.

Advice boat. See under Advice. -- Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. -- Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. -- In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.


word: Boat₂
definition:
Boat

Boat
(b&omacrt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.]
1.
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

2.
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

To boat the oars. See under Oar.


word: Boatable
definition:
Boatable

Boat"a*ble
(_;)
a.
1.
Such as can be transported in a boat.

2.
Navigable for boats, or small river craft.

The boatable waters of the Alleghany.
J. Morse.


word: Boatbill
definition:
Boatbill

Boat"bill`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
1.
A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

2.
A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.


word: Boat bug
definition:
Boat bug

Boat" bug`
(_;)
(Zool.)
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.


word: Boathouse
definition:
Boathouse

Boat"house`
(_;)
n.
A house for sheltering boats.

Half the latticed boathouse hides.
Wordsworth.


word: Boating
definition:
Boating

Boat"ing
n.
1.
The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

2.
In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.


word: Boation
definition:
Boation

Bo*a"tion
(_;)
n.
[L. boatus, fr. boare to roar.]
A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
[Obs.]

The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations.
Derham.


word: Boatman
definition:
Boatman

Boat"man
(_;)
n.
pl. Boatmen (_;).
1.
A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

As late the boatman hies him home.
Percival.

2.
(Zool.)
A boat bug. See Boat bug.


word: Boat shell
definition:
Boat shell

Boat" shell`
(_;)
(Zool.)
(a)
A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
(b)
A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.


word: Boatswain
definition:
Boatswain

Boat"swain
(_;)
n.
[Boat + swain.]
1.
(Naut.)
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The jager gull.
(b)
The tropic bird.

Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.


word: Boat-tail
definition:
Boat-tail

Boat"-tail`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.


word: Bob
definition:
Bob

Bob
(b&obreve_;b)
n.
[An onomatopoetic word, expressing quick, jerky motion; OE. bob bunch, bobben to strike, mock, deceive. Cf. Prov. Eng. bob, n., a ball, an engine beam, bunch, blast, trick, taunt, scoff; as, a v., to dance, to courtesy, to disappoint, OF. bober to mock.]
1.
Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.

In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob.
Dryden.

2.
A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.

Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow,
Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow.
Lauson.

3.
A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

4.
The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

5.
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

6.
A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

7.
(Steam Engine)
A working beam.

8.
A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

A plain brown bob he wore.
Shenstone.

9.
A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

10.
The refrain of a song.

To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
L'Estrange.

11.
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

12.
A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

He that a fool doth very wisely hit,
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Shak.

13.
A shilling.
[Slang, Eng.]
Dickens.


word: Bob₂
definition:
Bob

Bob
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bobbed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bobbing.]
[OE. bobben. See Bob, n.]
1.
To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
bobbed
W. Irving.

2.
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Elyot.

3.
To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him.
Shak.

4.
To mock or delude; to cheat.

To play her pranks, and bob the fool,
The shrewish wife began.
Turbervile.

5.
To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.


word: Bob₃
definition:
Bob

Bob
v. i.
1.
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
Bobbing
Thackeray.

2.
To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.

He ne'er had learned the art to bob
For anything but eels.
Saxe.

To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.


word: Bobance
definition:
Bobance

Bo*bance"
(_;)
n.
[OF. bobance, F. bombance, boasting, pageantry, fr. L. bombus a humming, buzzing.]
A boasting.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Bobbery
definition:
Bobbery

Bob"ber*y
(_;)
n.
[Prob. an Anglo-Indian form of Hindi bāp re O thou father! (a very disrespectful address).]
A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
[Low]
Halliwell.


word: Bobbin
definition:
Bobbin

Bob"bin
(_;)
n.
[F. bobine; of uncertain origin; cf. L. bombus a humming, from the noise it makes, or Ir. & Gael. baban tassel, or E. bob.]
1.
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

2.
A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

3.
The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

4.
(Haberdashery)
A fine cord or narrow braid.

5.
(Elec.)
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.

Bobbin and fly frame, a roving machine. -- Bobbin lace, lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.


word: Bobbinet
definition:
Bobbinet

Bob`bi*net"
(_;)
n.
[Bobbin + net.]
A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
[Sometimes written bobbin net.]

The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced.
Tomlinsom.


word: Bobby
definition:
Bobby

Bob"by
(_;)
n.
A nickname for a British policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
[Slang, Eng.]
Dickens.


word: bobbysocks
definition:
bobbysocks

bob"by*socks`
n.
a sock that reaches just above the ankle.

Syn. -- anklet, anklets, bobbysock.


word: bobbysoxer
definition:
bobbysoxer

bob"by*sox`er
n.
an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .

Syn. -- bobbysocker.


word: bobcat
definition:
bobcat

bob"cat
(b&obreve_;b"kăt`)
n.
1.
small lynx (Lynx rufus) of North America.

Syn. -- bay lynx.


word: Bob-cherry
definition:
Bob-cherry

Bob"-cher`ry
(_;)
n.
A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.


word: bobfloat
definition:
bobfloat

bob"float
n.
1.
a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.

Syn. -- bob, bobber, cork.


word: Bobolink
definition:
Bobolink

Bob"o*link`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink.
W. Irving.


word: Bobsleigh
definition:
Bobsleigh

Bobsled

{ Bob"sled` (_;), Bob"sleigh`  }
(_;)
n.
1.
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
[U. S.]

The long wagon body set on bobsleds.
W. D. Howells.

2.
a long racing sled (for 2 or more people), having two pairs of runners, with the front pair connected to a steering mechanism.  They are usually raced one at a time down a steeply sloping path or specially constructed chute, with sharp banked curves, and attain high speeds.

Syn. -- bobsled.


word: Bobstay
definition:
Bobstay

Bob"stay`
(_;)
n.
[Bob + stay.]
(Naut.)
A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.


word: Bobtail
definition:
Bobtail

Bob"tail`
(_;)
n.
[Bob + tail.]
An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.

Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.


word: Bobtailed
definition:
Bobtailed

Bob"tailed`
(_;)
a.
Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.


word: Bobwhite
definition:
Bobwhite

Bob"white`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.


word: Bob wig
definition:
Bob wig

Bob" wig`
(_;)
A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.
Spectator.


word: Bocardo
definition:
Bocardo

Bo*car"do
(_;)
n.
[A mnemonic word.]
1.
(Logic)
A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.

Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians.
Bowen.

2.
A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.
[Eng.]
Latimer.


word: Bocca
definition:
Bocca

Boc"ca
(_;)
n.
[It., mouth.]
The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
Craig.


word: Boce
definition:
Boce

Boce
(b&omacrs)
n.
[L. box, bocis, Gr. bo`ax, bw^x.]
(Zool.)
A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.


word: Bock beer
definition:
Bock beer

Bock" beer`
(_;)
[G. bockbier; bock a buck + bier beer; -- said to be so named from its tendency to cause the drinker to caper like a goat.]
A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.
[Also written buck beer.]


word: Bockelet
definition:
Bockelet

Bock"e*let
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret.
[Obs.]


word: Bockey
definition:
Bockey

Bock"ey
(_;)
n.
[D. bokaal.]
A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
[Local, New York]
Bartlett.


word: Bocking
definition:
Bocking

Bock"ing
n.
A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.


word: Boddhisatva
definition:
Boddhisatva

Boddhisatva
n.
a Buddhist, worthy of nirvana, who postpones it to help others.

Syn. -- Bodhisattva.


word: Bode
definition:
Bode

Bode
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.]
[OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo_;a to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. √89. See Bid.]
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

A raven that bodes nothing but mischief.
Goldsmith.

Good onset bodes good end.
Spenser.


word: Bode₂
definition:
Bode

Bode
v. i.
To foreshow something; to augur.

Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Dryden.


word: Bode₃
definition:
Bode

Bode
n.
1.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
[Obs.]

The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
Chaucer.

2.
A bid; an offer.
[Obs. or Dial.]
Sir W. Scott


word: Bode₄
definition:
Bode

Bode
n.
[AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.]
A messenger; a herald.
Robertson.


word: Bodement
definition:
Bodement

Bode"ment
(_;)
n.
An omen; a prognostic.
[Obs.]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements.
Shak.


word: Bodge₂
definition:
Bodge

Bodge
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bodged (_;).]
To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
[Obs. or Dial.]


word: Bodhisattwa
definition:
Bodhisattwa

Bodhisattva

Bodhisat

{ Bo"dhi*sat (?),  &VerbarBo`dhi*satt"va,  &VerbarBo`dhi*satt"wa (?) }
n.
[Skr. b&omacrdhisattva (perh. through Pali b&omacrdhisatt&omacr); fr. b&omacrdhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence.]
(Buddhism)
One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world.
Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n.


word: Bodian
definition:
Bodian

Bo"di*an
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.


word: Bodice
definition:
Bodice

Bod"ice
(_;)
n.
[This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body.]
1.
A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

2.
A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

Her bodice half way she unlaced.
Prior.


word: Bodied
definition:
Bodied

Bod"ied
(_;)
a.
Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied.
Hakluyt.


word: Bodiless
definition:
Bodiless

Bod"i*less
(_;)
a.
1.
Having no body.

2.
Without material form; incorporeal.

Phantoms bodiless and vain.
Swift.


word: Bodily
definition:
Bodily

Bod"i*ly
(_;)
a.
1.
Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us.
Tatler.

2.
Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.
Bodily
L'Estrange.

3.
Real; actual; put in execution.
[Obs.]

Be brought to bodily act.
Shak.

Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.


word: Bodily₂
definition:
Bodily

Bod"i*ly
adv.
1.
Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.

For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Col. ii. 9

2.
In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. “Leapt bodily below.”

Lowell.


word: Bodkin
definition:
Bodkin

Bod"kin
(b&obreve_;d"kĭn)
n.
[OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag.]
1.
A dagger.
[Obs.]

When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin.
Shak.

2.
(Needlework)
An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a stiletto; an eyeleteer.

3.
(Print.)
A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out letters from a column or page in making corrections.

4.
A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.

Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye.
Pope.

5.
A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.

To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.


word: Bodleian
definition:
Bodleian

Bod"lei*an
a.
Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.


word: Body
definition:
Body

Bod"y
(_;)
n.
pl. Bodies (_;).
[OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. √257. Cf. Bodice.]

1.
The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.
1 Cor. v. 3

For of the soul the body form doth take.
For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Spenser.

2.
The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.

Who set the body and the limbs
Of this great sport together?
Shak.

The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince.
Clarendon.

Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.
Addison.

3.
The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Col. ii. 17.

4.
A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.

A dry, shrewd kind of a body.
W. Irving.

5.
A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.

A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.
Prescott.

6.
A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

7.
Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aëriform body.
body
Huxley.

By collision of two bodies, grind
The air attrite to fire.
Milton.

8.
Amount; quantity; extent.

9.
That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

10.
The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

11.
(Print.)
The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

12.
(Geom.)
A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

13.
Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

&hand_; Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.

14.
(Aëronautics)
The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc.  Also called fuselage.

After body (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. -- Body cavity (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the cælum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. -- Body of a church, the nave. -- Body cloth; pl. Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses. -- Body clothes. (pl.) 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing. 2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] Addison. -- Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat. -- Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. -- Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part. -- Body louse (Zool.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback. -- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. -- Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. Wharton.
[1913 Webster]
As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of “people”, or “nation”. Bouvier.
[1913 Webster]
 -- Body servant, a valet. -- The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer.
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 -- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. -- Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.


word: Body₂
definition:
Body

Bod"y
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bodied (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying.]
To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally.
[1913 Webster]
Imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown. Shak.


word: bodybuilder
definition:
bodybuilder

bodybuilder
n.
someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature.

Syn. -- musclebuilder.


word: bodybuilding
definition:
bodybuilding

bodybuilding
n.
exercise that builds muscles through tension.

Syn. -- anaerobic exercise, musclebuilding.


word: Bodyguard
definition:
Bodyguard

Bod"y*guard`
(_;)
n.
1.
A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

2.
Retinue; attendance; following.
Bp. Porteus.


word: body shop
definition:
body shop

body shop
n.
an establishment where the frame or outer body of a vehicle may be repaired or painted; -- contrasted with a mechanic, who repairs the motor and other working components.


word: bodywork
definition:
bodywork

bodywork
n.
1.
the exterior body of a motor vehicle.

2.
the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies.


word: Boehmenism
definition:
Boehmenism

Boehmenism
n.
the mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers.

Syn. -- Behmenism.


word: Boeotian
definition:
Boeotian

Bœ*o"tian
(be̝*&omacr"shan)
a.
[L. Boeotia, Gr. boiwti`a, noted for its moist, thick atmosphere, and the dullness and stupidity of its inhabitants.]
Of or pertaining to Bœotia.
n. A native of Bœotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.

2.
Hence:
Stupid; dull; obtuse.
n. One who is dull and ignorant.


word: Boer
definition:
Boer

Boer
(_;)
n.
[D., a farmer. See Boor.]
A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.


word: boffo
definition:
boffo

boff

boff, bof"fo
n.
1.
(Theater)
a hearty laugh.

2.
(Theater)
a joke or gag line that produces hearty laughter.

3.
(Theater)
something very successful, especially a box-office hit.


word: boffin
definition:
boffin

bof"fin
n.
a scientist or technician, especially one engaged in military research.
[British slang]


word: bog
definition:
bog

bog
(b&obreve_;g)
n.
[Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.]

1.
A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.
R. Jago.

2.
A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
[Local, U. S.]

Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum. -- Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale. -- Bog ore. (Min.) (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese. -- Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. -- Bog spavin. See under Spavin.


word: Bog
definition:
Bog

Bog
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bogged (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging.]
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bogart
definition:
Bogart

Bogart
n.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, famous movie actor; most commonly called Humphrey Bogart; b. 1899, d. 1957.

Syn. -- Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey DeForest Bogart.


word: bogbean
definition:
bogbean

bogbean
n.
a perennial plant of Europe and America (Menyanthes trifoliata) having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at the water margin and spreading across the surface; -- called also bog myrtle, water shamrock and marsh trefoil.

Syn. -- water shamrock, buckbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil.


word: Bogberry
definition:
Bogberry

Bog"ber`ry
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.


word: Bogey
definition:
Bogey

Bo"gey
(?)
n.
pl. Bogeys (#)
[Also bogie and bogy, plural bogies.]
1.
A goblin; a bugbear.

Syn. -- bogeyman.

I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy.
Wm. Black.

2.
(Golf)
a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey.  Now the standard score is called par.

3.
(Mil.)
an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.


word: Bogeyman
definition:
Bogeyman

Bo"gey*man
(?)
n.
pl. Bogeymen (#)
A goblin; a bugbear; a bogey{1}.  This is the form used by parents to frighten children; as, if you don't eat your vegetables, the bogeyman will get you.

Syn. -- bogey.


word: Boggle
definition:
Boggle

Bog"gle
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Boggled (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Boggling (_;).]
[ See Bogle, n.]
1.
To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
Glanvill.

Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
Barrow.

2.
To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

3.
To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
Howell.


word: Boggy
definition:
Boggy

Bog"gy
(_;)
a.
Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.


word: Bogie
definition:
Bogie

Bo"gie
(_;)
n.
[A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.]
A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.


word: Bogie engine
definition:
Bogie engine

Bo"gie en"gine
(Railroads)
A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.


word: Bogle
definition:
Bogle

Bo"gle
(_;)
n.
[Scot. and North Eng. bogle, bogill, bugill, specter; as a verb, to terrify, fr. W. bwgwl threatening, fear, bwg, bwgan, specter, hobgoblin. Cf. Bug.]
A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
[Written also boggle.]


word: Bogsucker
definition:
Bogsucker

Bog"suck`er
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.


word: Bogtrotter
definition:
Bogtrotter

Bog"trot`ter
(_;)
n.
One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
Halliwell.


word: Bogue
definition:
Bogue

Bogue
(_;)
v. i.
(Naut.)
To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.


word: Bogus
definition:
Bogus

Bo"gus
(_;)
a.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Bogwood
definition:
Bogwood

Bog"wood`
(_;)
n.
The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.


word: Bogy
definition:
Bogy

Bo"gy
(_;)
n.
pl. Bogies (_;).
[See Bogle.]
A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
bogies
J. H. Newman.
[Written also bogey.]

There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages.
C. Kingsley.


word: Bohea
definition:
Bohea

Bo*hea"
(_;)
n.
[From Wu-i, pronounced by the Chinese bu-i, the name of the hills where this kind of tea is grown.]
Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

&hand_; The name was formerly applied to superior kinds of black tea, or to black tea in general.


word: Bohemia
definition:
Bohemia

Bo*he"mi*a
(_;)
n.
1.
A country of central Europe.

2.
Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.

She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia.
Compton Reade.


word: Bohemian
definition:
Bohemian

Bo*he"mi*an
(_;)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.

2.
Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or “Bohemian” (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.
[Modern]

Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty.
Blackw. Mag.

Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays.
W. Black.

Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zool.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. -- Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.


word: Bohemian₂
definition:
Bohemian

Bo*he"mi*an
(_;)
n.
1.
A native of Bohemia.

2.
The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

3.
A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
[Modern]

&hand_; In this sense from the French bohémien, a gypsy; also, a person of irregular habits.

She was of a wild, roving nature, inherited from father and mother, who were both Bohemians by taste and circumstances.
Thackeray.


word: Boil
definition:
Boil

Boil
(boil)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Boiled (boild); p. pr. & vb. n. Boiling.]
[OE. boilen, OF. boilir, builir, F. bouillir, fr. L. bullire to be in a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. _;, Lith. bumbuls. Cf. Bull an edict, Budge, v., and Ebullition.]
1.
To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

2.
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
Job xii. 31.

3.
To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

4.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
Surrey.

5.
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. -- To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.


word: Boil₂
definition:
Boil

Boil
v. t.
1.
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

2.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

3.
To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

The stomach cook is for the hall,
And boileth meate for them all.
Gower.

4.
To steep or soak in warm water.
[Obs.]

To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
Bacon.

To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.


word: Boil₄
definition:
Boil

Boil
n.
[Influenced by boil, v. See Beal, Bile.]
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.


word: Boiled
definition:
Boiled

Boiled
(_;)
a.
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.


word: boiled-down
definition:
boiled-down

boiled-down
adj.
expressing the essence; condensed; summarized.
the final boiled-down crux of the matter

Syn. -- boiled down.


word: Boiler
definition:
Boiler

Boil"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who boils.

2.
A vessel in which any thing is boiled.

&hand_; The word boiler is a generic term covering a great variety of kettles, saucepans, clothes boilers, evaporators, coppers, retorts, etc.

3.
(Mech.)
A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

&hand_; The earliest steam boilers were usually spheres or sections of spheres, heated wholly from the outside. Watt used the wagon boiler (shaped like the top of a covered wagon) which is still used with low pressures. Most of the boilers in present use may be classified as plain cylinder boilers, flue boilers, sectional and tubular boilers.

Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part containing the flues. -- Boiler plate, Boiler iron, plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc. -- Cylinder boiler, one which consists of a single iron cylinder. -- Flue boilers are usually single shells containing a small number of large flues, through which the heat either passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water. -- Locomotive boiler, a boiler which contains an inclosed fire box and a large number of small flues leading to the chimney. -- Multiflue boiler. Same as Tubular boiler, below. -- Sectional boiler, a boiler composed of a number of sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built up. -- Tubular boiler, a boiler containing tubes which form flues, and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler. See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam. -- Tubulous boiler. See under Tubulous. See Tube, n., 6, and 1st Flue.


word: boilersuit
definition:
boilersuit

boilersuit
n.
a loose protective smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work.
[British]

Syn. -- overall, boilers suit.


word: Boilery
definition:
Boilery

Boil"er*y
(boil"ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
[Cf. F. bouillerie.]
A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.


word: Boiling
definition:
Boiling

Boil"ing
a.
Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 ° Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96°; for ether, 94.8°; for mercury, about 675°. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. -- Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. -- To be at the boiling point, to be very angry. -- To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [Colloq.]


word: Boiling₂
definition:
Boiling

Boil"ing
n.
1.
The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

2.
Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.


word: Boilingly
definition:
Boilingly

Boil"ing*ly
adv.
With boiling or ebullition.

And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher.
Byron.


word: Bois d'arc
definition:
Bois d'arc

Bois" d'arc"
(_;)
[F., bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians.]
(Bot.)
The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).

The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies.
U. S. Census (1880).


word: Bois durci
definition:
Bois durci

Bois" dur`ci"
(_;)
[F., hardened wood.]
A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.


word: Boisterous
definition:
Boisterous

Bois"ter*ous
(_;)
a.
[OE. boistous; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity, bwystus ferocious.]
1.
Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
[Obs.]
Boisterous
Boisterous
Shak.

2.
Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.

The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
Shak.

The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
Milton.

3.
Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.

I like not that loud, boisterous man.
Addison.

4.
Vehement; excessive.
[R.]

The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them.
Woodward.


word: Boisterousness
definition:
Boisterousness

Bois"ter*ous*ness
n.
The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.


word: Boistous
definition:
Boistous

Bois"tous
(_;)
a.
Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Bois"tous*ly, adv. -- Bois"tous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Bojanus organ
definition:
Bojanus organ

Bo*ja"nus or"gan
(_;)
[From Bojanus, the discoverer.]
(Zool.)
A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.


word: Bolar
definition:
Bolar

Bo"lar
(_;)
a.
[See Bole clay.]
Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.


word: Bolas
definition:
Bolas

Bo"las
(_;)
n. sing. & pl.
[Sp.]
A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.


word: Bold
definition:
Bold

Bold
(b&omacrld)
a.
[OE. bald, bold, AS. bald, beald; akin to Icel. ballr, OHG. bald, MHG. balt, D. boud, Goth. balþei boldness, It. baldo. In Ger. there remains only bald, adv. soon. Cf. Bawd, n.]
1.
Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

Throngs of knights and barons bold.
Milton.

2.
Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
bold
Milton.

3.
In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.

Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice.
Shak.

4.
Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.
Bold
Waller.

The cathedral church is a very bold work.
Addison.

5.
Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.

Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder.
Dryden.

6.
Steep; abrupt; prominent.

Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.
Trumbull.


word: Bold eagle
definition:
Bold eagle

Bold eagle
(_;)
(Zool.)
an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo.
To make bold, to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.


word: Bolden
definition:
Bolden

Bold"en
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boldened (_;). ]
To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.

Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study.
Ascham.


word: Bold-faced
definition:
Bold-faced

Bold"-faced`
(_;)
a.
1.
Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman.

I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age.
Bramhall.

2.
(Print.)
Having a conspicuous or heavy face; -- also called boldface.

&hand_; This line is bold-faced nonpareil.


word: Boldu
definition:
Boldu

Boldo

{ &VerbarBol"do (_;), &VerbarBol"du (_;), }
n.
(Bot.)
A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.


word: Bole
definition:
Bole

Bole
(_;)
n.
[OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. bål, Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. Bulge.]
The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.

Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
Tennyson.


word: Bole₂
definition:
Bole

Bole
n.
[Etym. doubtful.]
An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
[Scot.]

Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bole₄
definition:
Bole

Bole
n.
[Gr. _; a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol, and also L. bolus morsel. Cf. Bolus.]
1.
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

2.
A bolus; a dose.
Coleridge.

Armenian bole. See under Armenian. -- Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Bolection
definition:
Bolection

Bo*lec"tion
(_;)
n.
(Arch.)
A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.
Gwilt.


word: Bolero
definition:
Bolero

Bo*le"ro
(_;)
n.
[Sp.]
(Mus.)
1.
A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

2.
A kind of small outer jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by women.


word: Boletic
definition:
Boletic

Bo*let"ic
(_;)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.

Boletic acid, an acid obtained from the Boletus fomentarius, variety pseudo-igniarius. Same as Fumaric acid.


word: Boletus
definition:
Boletus

Bo*le"tus
(_;)
n.
[L. boletus, Gr. _;.]
(Bot.)
A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.


word: Bolis
definition:
Bolis

Bo"lis
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _; missile, arrow, fr. _; to throw.]
A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.


word: Boll
definition:
Boll

Boll
(_;)
n.
[OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel.]
1.
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

2.
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
[Sometimes spelled bole.]


word: Boll₂
definition:
Boll

Boll
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bolled (_;).]
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Ex. ix. 31.


word: Bollandists
definition:
Bollandists

Bol"land*ists
(_;)
n. pl.
The Jesuit editors of the “Acta Sanctorum”, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.


word: Bollard
definition:
Bollard

Bol"lard
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard.]
An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.


word: Bolling
definition:
Bolling

Boll"ing
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Bole stem of a tree, and Poll, v. t.]
A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.


word: bollock
definition:
bollock

bollock
n.
one of the two male reproductive glands; a testis; -- usually spelled ballock, and usually used in the plural.

Syn. -- gonad, testicle, ball, nut, egg.

2.
a pulley-block at the head of a topmast.

Syn. -- bullock block.


word: bollocks
definition:
bollocks

bollocks
v.
to make a mess of.

Syn. -- botch, fumble, botch up, muff, blow it, flub, screw up, ball up, blunder, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up.


word: Bollworm
definition:
Bollworm

Boll"worm`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.


word: Bollen₂
definition:
Bollen

Boln

{ Boln (_;), Boll"en (_;), }
a.
Swollen; puffed out.

Thin, and boln out like a sail.
B. Jonson.


word: Bologna
definition:
Bologna

Bo*lo"gna
(_;)
n.
1.
A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.

2.
A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney.

Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. -- Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.


word: Bolognese
definition:
Bolognese

Bo*lo`gnese"
(_;)
a.
Of or pertaining to Bologna.
n. A native of Bologna.

Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.


word: Bolometer
definition:
Bolometer

Bo*lom"e*ter
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; a stroke, ray + -meter.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance.
S. P. Langley.


word: Bolsa
definition:
Bolsa

Bol"sa
(?)
n.
[Sp., lit., purse. See Bourse.]
An exchange for the transaction of business.
[Sp. Amer. & Phil. Islands]


word: Bolshevik
definition:
Bolshevik

Bolshevik
n.
[Russian bol'shevik fr. bol'she more + -vik, a person, i.e. one who is a member of the majority (in the revolutionary Russian parliament).]
1.
a member of the extreme left wing of the Social Democratic Party that seized power in Russia in 1917 after the Russian October Revolution, and advocated rule by the proletariat and state ownership of property.
Actually in the minority, this branch seized the opportunity, when the moderate group walked out, to proclaim themselves a majority and form a government.  They prevailed in the subsequent civil war.

2.
same as communist, especially used of Russian communists.

3.
anyone with communist leanings or sympathies; -- used very loosely in a derogatory sense by some people with economically conservative views.


word: Bolshevik₂
definition:
Bolshevik

Bolshevik
adj.
of or pertaining to Bolsheviks or bolshevism.
Bolshevik Revolution

Syn. -- bolshevik.


word: bolshevize
definition:
bolshevize

bolshevise

bolshevise, bolshevize
v.
[see Bolshevik.]
to render communistic; -- of governments.

Syn. -- communize, make communist.


word: bolshevism
definition:
bolshevism

bolshevism
n.
[see Bolshevik.]
a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin.

Syn. -- collectivism, Marxism-Leninism, Leninism, Marxism, Sovietism, sovietism.


word: Bolster
definition:
Bolster

Bol"ster
(b&omacrl"stẽr; 110)
n.
[AS. bolster; akin to Icel. b&omacrlstr, Sw. & Dan. bolster, OHG. bolstar, polstar, G. polster; from the same root as E. bole stem, bowl hollow vessel. Cf. Bulge, Poltroon.]
1.
A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.

And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.
Shak.

2.
A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.

This arm shall be a bolster for thy head.
Gay.

3.
Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.

4.
(Saddlery)
A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.

5.
(Naut.)
(a)
A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
(b)
Anything used to prevent chafing.

6.
A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.

7.
A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.

8.
The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

9.
(Mech.)
the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.

10.
(Cutlery)
(a)
That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
(b)
The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
G. Francis.

11.
(Arch.)
The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
G. Francis.

12.
(Mil.)
A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
[See Illust. of Gun carriage.]

Bolster work (Arch.), members which are bellied or curved outward like cushions, as in friezes of certain classical styles.


word: Bolster₂
definition:
Bolster

Bol"ster
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bolstered (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bolstering.]
1.
To support with a bolster or pillow.
S. Sharp.

2.
To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.

To bolster baseness.
Drayton.

Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride.
Compton Reade.


word: Bolt
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
(_;)
n.
[AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout, OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]
1.
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.

Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts.
Sir W. Scott.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.
Shak.

2.
Lightning; a thunderbolt.

3.
A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.

4.
A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

5.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
[Obs.]

Away with him to prison!
lay bolts enough upon him.
Shak.

6.
A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

7.
A bundle, as of oziers.

Bolt auger, an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights. -- Bolt and nut, a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in illust. above.

See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.


word: Bolt₂
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
1.
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

2.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.
Milton.

3.
To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.

4.
(U. S. Politics)
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

5.
(Sporting)
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

6.
To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.

Let tenfold iron bolt my door.
Langhorn.

Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
Shak.


word: Bolt₃
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
(b&omacrlt; 110)
v. i.
1.
To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.

This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . 
And oft out of a bush doth bolt.
Drayton.

2.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
Milton.

3.
To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

4.
(U.S. Politics)
To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.


word: Bolt₄
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
adv.
In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
Thackeray.

Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Bolt₅
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
n.
[From Bolt, v. i.]
1.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

2.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere.
Compton Reade.

3.
(U. S. Politics)
A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.


word: Bolt₆
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
[OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See Borrel, and cf. Bultel.]

1.
To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

He now had bolted all the flour.
Spenser.

Ill schooled in bolted language.
Shak.

2.
To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.

Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
L'Estrange.

3.
(Law)
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
Jacob.

To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer.

This bolts the matter fairly to the bran.
Harte.

The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran.
Burke.


word: Bolt₇
definition:
Bolt

Bolt
n.
A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
B. Jonson.


word: Bolter
definition:
Bolter

Bolt"er
(_;)
n.
One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.


word: Bolter₂
definition:
Bolter

Bolt"er
n.
1.
One who sifts flour or meal.

2.
An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.


word: Bolthead
definition:
Bolthead

Bolt"head`
(_;)
n.
1.
(Chem.)
A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.

2.
The head of a bolt.


word: Bolting₂
definition:
Bolting

Bolt"ing
n.
1.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.

2.
(Law)
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
[Obs.]

Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.


word: Boltonite
definition:
Boltonite

Bol"ton*ite
(_;)
n.
(Min.)
A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.


word: Boltrope
definition:
Boltrope

Bolt"rope`
(_;)
n.
(Naut.)
A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.


word: Bolus
definition:
Bolus

Bo"lus
(_;)
n.
pl. Boluses (_;).
[L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. _; lump of earth. See Bole, n., clay.]
A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.


word: Bomb
definition:
Bomb

Bomb
(_;)
n.
[F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. _;.]

1.
A great noise; a hollow sound.
[Obs.]

A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath.
Bacon.

2.
(Mil.)
A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

3.
A bomb ketch.

Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. “I noticed volcanic bombs.”  Darwin.


word: Bomb₃
definition:
Bomb

Bomb
v. i.
[Cf. Boom.]
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Bombacaceae
definition:
Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae
n.
a natural family of tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds.

Syn. -- family Bombacaceae.


word: Bombard
definition:
Bombard

Bom"bard
(_;)
n.
[F. bombarde, LL. bombarda, fr. L. bombus + -ard. Cf. Bumper, and see Bomb.]
1.
(Gun.)
A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
Knolles.

2.
A bombardment.
[Poetic & R.]
J. Barlow.

3.
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
[Obs.]

Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
Shak.

4.
pl.
Padded breeches.
[Obs.]

Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.


word: Bombard₃
definition:
Bombard

Bom*bard"
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bombarding.]
To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

Next, she means to bombard Naples.
Burke.

His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe.
Wood.


word: Bombardier
definition:
Bombardier

Bom`bar*dier"
(_;)
n.
[F. bombardier.]
(Mil.)
(a)
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
[Archaic]
(b)
A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.

Bombardier beetle (Zool.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans.


word: Bombardman
definition:
Bombardman

Bom"bard*man
(_;)
n.
One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.
[Obs.]

They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.
B. Jonson.


word: Bombardment
definition:
Bombardment

Bom*bard"ment
(_;)
n.
[F. bombardement.]
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.


word: Bombardon
definition:
Bombardon

Bombardo

{ &VerbarBom*bar"do (_;), Bom*bar"don (_;), }
n.
[It. bombardo.]
(Mus.)
Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
Grove.


word: Bombast
definition:
Bombast

Bom"bast
(b&obreve_;m"bȧst or bŭm"bȧst; 277)
n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine.]
1.
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
[Obs.]

A candle with a wick of bombast.
Lupton.

2.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
[Obs.]

How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
Shak.

Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
Stubbes.

3.
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
Dryden.


word: Bombast₂
definition:
Bombast

Bom"bast
a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Shak.

Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.
Cowley.


word: Bombast₃
definition:
Bombast

Bom*bast"
(b&obreve_;m*bȧst" or bŭm*bȧst")
v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
[Obs.]

Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
Drayton.


word: Bombastical
definition:
Bombastical

Bombastic

{ Bom*bas"tic (b&obreve_;m*bȧs"tĭk or bŭm*bȧs"tĭk), Bom*bas"tic*al  }
(_;)
a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.

A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology.
Burke.


word: Bombastry
definition:
Bombastry

Bom"bast*ry
(_;)
n.
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all.
Swift.


word: Bombax
definition:
Bombax

Bom"bax
(_;)
n.
[LL., cotton. See Bombast, n.]
(Bot.)
A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.


word: Bombazet Bombazette
definition:
Bombazet Bombazette

{ Bom`ba*zet" Bom`ba*zette" }
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Bombazine.]
A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.


word: Bombazine
definition:
Bombazine

Bom`ba*zine"
(_;)
n.
[F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. _;. Cf. Bombast, Bombycinous.]
A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.
[Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.]
Tomlinson.


word: bomb calorimeter
definition:
bomb calorimeter

bomb" cal`o*rim"e*ter
(?)
n.
a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere.


word: bomber
definition:
bomber

bomber
n.
1.
a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.

2.
a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the US.

Syn. -- grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.

3.
a person who drops bombs or plants and explodes bombs, especially surreptitously.

4.
a bomber jacket.


word: Bomber jacket
definition:
Bomber jacket

Bom"ber jack`et
(_;)
n.
[From its resemblance to the style of jacket work by the crews of World War II bomber airplanes.]
a short men's jacket made of leather, having a zipper in front, knitted cuffs, and ribbed trim.


word: Bombic
definition:
Bombic

Bom"bic
(_;)
a.
[L. bombyx silk, silkworm: cf. F. bombique.]
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.


word: Bombilate
definition:
Bombilate

Bom"bi*late
(_;)
v. i.
[LL. bombilare, for L. bombitare. See Bomb, n.]
To hum; to buzz.
[R.]


word: Bombilation
definition:
Bombilation

Bom`bi*la"tion
(_;)
n.
A humming sound; a booming.

To . . . silence the bombilation of guns.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Bombolo
definition:
Bombolo

Bom"bo*lo
(_;)
n.
pl. Bomboloes (_;).
[Cf. It bombola a pitcher.]
A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.
[Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]


word: Bombproof
definition:
Bombproof

Bomb"proof`
(_;)
a.
Secure against the explosive force of bombs.
n. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.


word: Bombshell
definition:
Bombshell

Bomb"shell`
(_;)
n.
1.
A bomb. See Bomb, n.

2.
something or someone that stuns or amazes, especially suddenly and unexpectedly; as, the news of the president's affair was a political bombshell; a blonde bombshell.


word: Bombycid
definition:
Bombycid

Bom*by"cid
(_;)
a.
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.


word: Bombycinous
definition:
Bombycinous

Bom*byc"i*nous
(b&obreve_;m*bĭs"ĭ*nŭs)
a.
[L. bombycinus. See Bombazine.]
1.
Silken; made of silk.
[Obs.]
Coles.

2.
Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
E. Darwin.


word: Bombyliidae
definition:
Bombyliidae

Bombyliidae
n.
a natural family of dipterous insects comprising the bee flies.

Syn. -- family Bombyliidae.


word: Bombylious
definition:
Bombylious

Bom*byl"i*ous
(b&obreve_;m*bĭl"ĭ*ŭs)
a.
[L. bombylius a bumblebee, Gr. bombylio`s.]
Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.
[Obs.]
Derham.


word: Bombyx
definition:
Bombyx

Bom"byx
(b&obreve_;m"bĭks)
n.
[L., silkworm. See Bombazine.]
(Zool.)
A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.


word: Bonaci
definition:
Bonaci

Bo`na*ci"
(?)
n.
[Amer. Sp. bonasí, prob. from native name.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper.
(b)
Also, any one of several other similar fishes.


word: Bona fide
definition:
Bona fide

Bo"na fi"de
(_;)
[L.]
In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.


word: Bona fides
definition:
Bona fides

Bo"na fi"des
(b&omacr"nȧ fī"dēz)
[L.]
Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.


word: Bonair
definition:
Bonair

Bo*nair"
(_;)
a.
[OE., also bonere, OF. bonnaire, Cotgr., abbrev. of debonnaire. See Debonair.]
Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.
[Obs.]


word: Bonanza
definition:
Bonanza

Bo*nan"za
(_;)
n.
[Sp., prop. calm., fair weather, prosperity, fr. L. bonus good.]
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Bonapartist
definition:
Bonapartist

Bo"na*part`ist
n.
One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.


word: Bonassus
definition:
Bonassus

Bonasus

{ Bo*na"sus (_;), Bo*nas"sus  }
(_;)
n.
[L. bonasus, Gr. _;, _;.]
(Zool.)
The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.


word: Bonbon
definition:
Bonbon

Bon"bon`
(_;)
n.
[F. bonbon, fr. bon bon very good, a superlative by reduplication, fr. bon good.]
Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.


word: Bonchretien
definition:
Bonchretien

Bon`chré`tien"
(_;)
n.
[F., good Christian.]
A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.


word: Boncilate
definition:
Boncilate

Bon"ci*late
(_;)
n.
[Empirical trade name.]
A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.


word: Bond
definition:
Bond

Bond
(b&obreve_;nd)
n.
[The same word as band. Cf. Band, Bend.]
1.
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
I gained my freedom.
Shak.

2.
pl.
The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
bonds
Acts xxvi.

3.
A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.
Burke.

4.
Moral or political duty or obligation.

I love your majesty
According to my bond, nor more nor less.
Shak.

5.
(Law)
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed.  This is a single bond.  But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force.  If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.
Bouvier. Wharton.

6.
A financial instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; a written promise to pay a specific sum of money on or before a specified day, given in return for a sum of money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

7.
The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

8.
(Arch.)
The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English bond or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

9.
(Chem.)
A unit of chemical attraction between atoms; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity.  Also called chemical bond.  It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.  Several types of bond are distinguished by chemists, as double bond, triple bond, covalent bond, hydrogen bond.

10.
(Elec.)
A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

11.
League; association; confederacy.
[South Africa]

The Africander Bond, a league or association appealing to African, but practically to Boer, patriotism.
James Bryce.

Arbitration bond. See under Arbitration. -- Bond creditor (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. -- covalent bond, an attractive force between two atoms of a molecule generated by the merging of an electron orbital of each atom into a combined orbital in the molecule.  Such bonds vary in strength, but in molecules of substances typically encountered in human experience (as, water or alcohol) they are sufficiently strong to persist and maintain the identity and integrity of the molecule over appreciable periods of time.  Each such bond satisfies one unit of valence for each of the atoms thus bonded.  Contrasted with hydrogen bond, which is weaker and does not satisfy the valence of either atom involved. -- double bond, triple bond, a covalent bond which involves the merging of orbitals of two (or three) electrons on each of the two connected atoms, thus satisfying two (or three) units of valence on each of the bonded atoms.  When two carbon atoms are thus bonded, the bond (and the compound) are said to be unsaturated. -- Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. Burrows. -- hydrogen bond, a non-covalent bond between hydrogen and another atom, usually oxygen or nitrogen.  It does not involve the sharing of electrons between the bonded atoms, and therefore does not satisfy the valence of either atom.  Hydrogen bonds are weak (ca. 5 kcal/mol) and may be frequently broken and reformed in solution at room temperature. -- Bond of a slate or lap of a slate, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. -- Bond timber, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.


word: Bond₂
definition:
Bond

Bond
(b&obreve_;nd)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bonded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bonding.]
1.
To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.

2.
(Arch.)
To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.


word: Bond₃
definition:
Bond

Bond
n.
[OE. bond, bonde, peasant, serf, AS. bonda, bunda, husband, bouseholder, from Icel. b&omacrndi husbandman, for būandi, fr. būa to dwell. See Boor, Husband.]
A vassal or serf; a slave.
[Obs. or Archaic]


word: Bond₄
definition:
Bond

Bond
a.
In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

By one Spirit are we all baptized . . . whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free.
1 Cor. xii. 13.


word: bondable
definition:
bondable

bondable
adj.
1.
capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond.

Syn. -- bindable.

2.
capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass.


word: Bondage
definition:
Bondage

Bond"age
(-a̝j)
n.
[LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]

1.
The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

The King, when he designed you for my guard,
Resolved he would not make my bondage hard.
Dryden.

2.
Obligation; tie of duty.

He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths.
South.

3.
(Old Eng. Law)
Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.


word: Bondar
definition:
Bondar

Bon"dar
(b&obreve_;n"där)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.


word: Bonded
definition:
Bonded

Bond"ed
(b&obreve_;nd"ĕd)
a.
Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.

Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.


word: Bonder
definition:
Bonder

Bond"er
(b&obreve_;nd"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

2.
(Masonry)
A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.


word: Bondholder
definition:
Bondholder

Bond"hold`er
(-h&omacrld`ẽr)
n.
A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.


word: Bondmaid
definition:
Bondmaid

Bond"maid`
(-mād`)
n.
[Bond, a. or n. + maid.]
A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.


word: Bondman
definition:
Bondman

Bond"man
(-man)
n.
pl. Bondmen (-men).
[Bond,a.orn.+ man.]
1.
A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.
bondmen
Macaulay.

2.
(Old Eng. Law)
A villain, or tenant in villenage.


word: Bond servant
definition:
Bond servant

bond-servant

bond-servant, Bond" serv`ant
(sẽrv`ant)
A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.

If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant.
Lev. xxv. 39, 40.


word: Bond service
definition:
Bond service

Bond" serv`ice
(sẽrv`ĭs)
The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.

Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service.
1 Kings ix. 21.


word: Bondslave
definition:
Bondslave

Bond"slave`
(-slāv`)
n.
A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.


word: Bondsman
definition:
Bondsman

Bonds"man
(_;)
n.
pl. Bondsmen.
[Bond, a. or n. + man.]
1.
A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen.
Derham.

2.
(Law)
A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.


word: Bondstone
definition:
Bondstone

Bond"stone`
(b&obreve_;nd"st&omacrn`)
n.
[Bond,n.+ stone.]
(Masonry)
A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.


word: Bonduc
definition:
Bonduc

Bon"duc
(b&obreve_;n"dŭk)
n.
[F. bonduc, fr. Ar. bunduq hazel nut, filbert nut.]
(Bot.)
See Nicker tree.


word: Bondwoman
definition:
Bondwoman

Bond"wom`an
(b&obreve_;nd"wŏm`an)
n.
pl. Bondwomen (-wĭm`en).
[Bond,a.orn.+ woman.]
A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

He who was of the bondwoman.
Gal. iv. 23.


word: Bone
definition:
Bone

Bone
(b&omacrn; 110)
n.
[OE. bon, ban, AS. bān; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.]
1.
(Anat.)
The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

&hand_; Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify.

2.
One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.

3.
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

4.
pl.
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

5.
pl.
Dice.

6.
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

7.
Fig.: The framework of anything.

A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute. -- A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). -- Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. -- Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. -- Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. -- Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer. -- Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. -- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil. -- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bone shark (Zool.), the basking shark. -- Bone spavin. See under Spavin. -- Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise. -- Bone whale (Zool.), a right whale. -- To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Obs.] -- To make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low] -- To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]


word: Bone₂
definition:
Bone

Bone
(b&omacrn)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boned (b&omacrnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Boning.]
1.
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
bone
Soyer.

2.
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
Ash.

3.
To fertilize with bone.

4.
To steal; to take possession of.
[Slang]


word: Bone₃
definition:
Bone

Bone
v. t.
[F. bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, fr. borgne one-eyed.]
To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
Knight.

Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.
W. M. Buchanan.


word: Boned
definition:
Boned

Boned
(b&omacrnd)
a.
1.
Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.

No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size.
Shak.

2.
Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

3.
Manured with bone; as, boned land.


word: bonehead
definition:
bonehead

bone"head`
n.
a person of low intelligence; a dunce; a blockhead; -- used deprecatingly to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence or capabilities.

Syn. -- dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead.


word: boneheaded
definition:
boneheaded

bone"head*ed
adj.
very stupid; -- used of people or actions.
[informal]
bone"head*ed*ness, n.

Syn. -- blockheaded, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed.


word: bone-lazy
definition:
bone-lazy

bone-idle

bone-idle bone-lazy
adj.
1.
disinclined to work or exertion.

Syn. -- do-nothing(prenominal), faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, shiftless, slothful, workshy, work-shy.


word: bonemeal
definition:
bonemeal

bone"meal`
n.
ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content.


word: boner
definition:
boner

boner
n.
1.
an embarrassing mistake.

Syn. -- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub, botch, boo-boo, misdoing.

2.
one who bones food.


word: Boneset
definition:
Boneset

Bone"set`
(-sĕt`)
n.
(Bot.)
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.


word: Bonesetter
definition:
Bonesetter

Bone"set*ter
(-sĕt*tẽr)
n.
One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.
Bone"set*ting, n.


word: Bonfire
definition:
Bonfire

Bon"fire`
(_;)
n.
[OE. bonefire, banefire, orig. a fire of bones; bone + fire; but cf. also Prov. E. bun a dry stalk.]
A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.

Full soon by bonfire and by bell,
We learnt our liege was passing well.
Gay.


word: Bongo
definition:
Bongo

Bon"go
(_;)
n.
Either of two large antelopes (Boöcercus eurycercus of West Africa, and Boöcercus isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.


word: Bongo₂
definition:
Bongo

Bon"go
(b&obreve_;&nsmacr_;"g&omacr)
n.
Either of two large antelopes (Boöcercus eurycercus of West Africa, and Boöcercus isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.


word: Bongo₃
definition:
Bongo

Bon"go
(b&obreve_;&nsmacr_;"g&omacr)
n.
pl. bongos or bongo.
one of a pair of attached small drums, each tuned to a different pitch, played by striking with the hands.


word: Bongrace
definition:
Bongrace

Bon"grace`
(b&obreve_;n"grās`)
n.
[F. bon good + grâce grace, charm.]
A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
[Obs.]


word: Bonhommie
definition:
Bonhommie

Bonhomie

&VerbarBon`ho*mie", &VerbarBon`hom*mie" (b&obreve_;n`&obreve_;*mē")
n.
[F.]
Good nature; pleasant and easy manner.


word: Boniface
definition:
Boniface

Bon"i*face
(_;)
n.
[From the sleek, jolly landlord in Farquhar's comedy of “The Beaux' Stratagem.”]
An innkeeper.


word: Boniform
definition:
Boniform

Bon"i*form
(_;)
a.
[L. bonus good + -form.]
Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
Dr. H. More.


word: Bonify
definition:
Bonify

Bon"i*fy
(_;)
v. t.
[L. bonus good + -fy: cf. F. bonifier.]
To convert into, or make, good.

To bonify evils, or tincture them with good.
Cudworth.


word: Boning
definition:
Boning

Bon"ing
n.
[Senses 1 and 2 fr. 1st Bone, sense 3 fr. 3d Bone.]
1.
The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

2.
The manuring of land with bones.

3.
A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.


word: Bonitary
definition:
Bonitary

Bon"i*ta*ry
(_;)
a.
Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.


word: Bonito
definition:
Bonito

Bo*ni"to
(bo̝*nē"to̝)
n.
pl. Bonitoes (-to̝z).
[Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bainīt and bainīth.]
[Often incorrectly written bonita.]
(Zool.)
1.
A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny.  It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.

2.
any of a variety of scombroid fishes of the genera Sarda or Euthynnus, with a size intermediate between those of the smaller mackerels and the tunas.  It is applied especially to the skipjack tuna (Euthynnus pelamis, syn. Katsuwonus pelamis, formerly Sarda Mediterranea, also called skipjack) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (Sarda Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. These are large and active fishes, of a blue color above and silver below, with black oblique stripes.
MW10

3.
The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern part of the United States and the West Indies.

4.
The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.


word: Bonmot
definition:
Bonmot

Bon"mot`
(bôN"mo̝`)
n.
pl. Bonsmots (-mo̝z`).
[ F. bon good + mot word.]
A witty repartee; a jest.


word: Bonnaz
definition:
Bonnaz

Bon"naz
(_;)
n.
A kind of embroidery made with a complicated sewing machine, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.


word: Bonne
definition:
Bonne

Bonne
(b&obreve_;n)
n.
[F., prop. good woman.]
A female servant charged with the care of a young child.


word: Bonne bouche
definition:
Bonne bouche

Bonne" bouche"
(b&obreve_;n' bŏsh`)
pl. Bonnes bouches (b&obreve_;n' bŏsh`).
[F. bon, fem. bonne, good + bouche mouth.]
A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.


word: Bonnet
definition:
Bonnet

Bon"net
(b&obreve_;n"nĕt)
n.
[OE. bonet, OF. bonet, bonete. F. bonnet fr. LL. bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of a stuff, and of unknown origin.]
1.
A headdress for men and boys; a cap.
[Obs.]
Milton. Shak.

2.
A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.

And plaids and bonnets waving high.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

4.
Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use
(a)
(Fort.)
A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
(b)
A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
(c)
A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
(d)
A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
(e)
In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.

5.
(Naut.)
An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.
Hakluyt.

6.
The second stomach of a ruminating animal.

7.
An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.
[Cant]

8.
(Automobiles)
The metal cover or shield over the motor; predominantly British usage.  In the U.S. it is called the hood.
[Brit.]

Bonnet limpet (Zool.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zool.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. -- To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. -- Black bonnet. See under Black. -- Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary.


word: Bonneted
definition:
Bonneted

Bon"net*ed
a.
1.
Wearing a bonnet.
Bonneted
Howitt.

2.
(Fort.)
Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a).


word: bonnethead
definition:
bonnethead

bonnet head

bonnet head, bonnethead
n.
(Zool.)
small harmless hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries.

Syn. -- shovelhead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo.


word: Bonnet rouge
definition:
Bonnet rouge

Bon`net" rouge"
(_;)
[F.]
The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.


word: Bonnibel
definition:
Bonnibel

Bon"ni*bel
(b&obreve_;n"nĭ*bĕl)
n.
[F. bonne et belle, good and beautiful. Cf. Bellibone.]
A handsome girl.
[Obs.]


word: Bonnilass
definition:
Bonnilass

Bon"ni*lass`
(b&obreve_;n"n&ybreve_;*lȧs`)
n.
[Bonny + lass.]
A “bonny lass”; a beautiful girl.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Bonny
definition:
Bonny

Bon"ny
(-n&ybreve_;)
a.
[Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.]
[OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]
1.
Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.

Till bonny Susan sped across the plain.
Gay.

Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr.
Burns.

2.
Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.

Be you blithe and bonny.
Shak.

Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bonny₂
definition:
Bonny

Bon"ny
n.
(Mining)
A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.


word: Bonnyclabber
definition:
Bonnyclabber

Bon"ny*clab`ber
(-klăb`bẽr)
n.
[Ir. bainne, baine, milk + clabar mud, mire.]
Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
B. Jonson.


word: bonobo
definition:
bonobo

bo*no"bo
(bo̝*n&omacr"b&omacr)
n.
An anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus), resembling but smaller than the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); -- called also pygmy chimpanzee.  It is found in the forests of Zaire.  Its genome is the closest known to humans, differing by less than 2% in nucleotide sequence.

Syn. -- pygmy chimpanzee, pygmy chimp.


word: Bon Silene
definition:
Bon Silene

Bon" Si`lène"
(bôN" se̝`la̝n")
[F.]
(Bot.)
A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.


word: Bonspiel
definition:
Bonspiel

Bon"spiel
(b&obreve_;n"spēl)
n.
[Scot.; of uncertain origin.]
A curling match between clubs.
[Scot.]


word: Bontebok
definition:
Bontebok

Bon"te*bok
(b&obreve_;n"te̝*b&obreve_;k)
n.
[D. bont a sort of skin or fur, prop. variegated + bok buck.]
(Zool.)
The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.


word: Bon ton
definition:
Bon ton

Bon" ton"
(bôN" tôN")
[F., good tone, manner.]
The height of the fashion; fashionable society.


word: Bonus
definition:
Bonus

Bo"nus
(b&omacr"nŭs)
n.
pl. Bonuses (-ĕz).
[L. bonus good. Cf. Bonny.]
1.
(Law)
A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
Bouvier.

2.
An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

3.
Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.


word: Bon vivant
definition:
Bon vivant

Bon` vi`vant"
(bôN` ve̝`väN")
pl. Bons vivants (-väN"z).
[F. bon good + vivant, p. pr. of vivre to live.]
A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.


word: Bony
definition:
Bony

Bon"y
(b&omacr"n&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

2.
Having large or prominent bones.

Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden. -- Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).


word: Bonze
definition:
Bonze

Bon"ze
(b&obreve_;n"ze̝; 277)
n.
[Pg. bonzo, fr. Japan. b&omacrzu a Buddhist priest: cf. F. bonze.]
A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.

&hand_; The name was given by the Portuguese to the priests of Japan, and has since been applied to the priests of China, Cochin China, and the neighboring countries.


word: boo
definition:
boo

boo
v.
to show displeasure (after a performance or speech) by making a prolonged sound of “boo”.


word: boob₂
definition:
boob

boob
n.
1.
an ignorant or foolish person.

Syn. -- dumbbell, dummy, dope, booby, pinhead.

2.
a female breast.
[informal or vulgar]

Syn. -- breast, bosom, knocker, tit, titty.


word: boo-boo
definition:
boo-boo

boo-boo
n.
1.
an embarrassing mistake.

Syn. -- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub, botch, boner, misdoing.

2.
a minor injury, such as an abrasion on the skin; -- child's talk.


word: Booby
definition:
Booby

Boo"by
(bō"b&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Boobies (-bĭz).
[Sp. bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]

1.
A dunce; a stupid fellow.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A swimming bird (Sula fiber or Sula sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity -- unafraid of men, it allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised approach.  The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, Sula piscator, the red-footed booby; and Sula nebouxii, the blue-footed booby.
(b)
A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.

Booby hatch (a) (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable. (b), an insane asylum. [Colloq.] -- Booby hut, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett. -- Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England. Forby. -- Booby prize, an award for the poorest performance in a competition; hence, metaphorically, the recognition of a strikingly inferior or incompetent performance. -- Booby trap (a), a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened. (b), any concealed device causing surprise or injury when a usually harmless object is touched; -- in military operations, typically containing an explosive charge.


word: Boodle
definition:
Boodle

Boo"dle
(bō"d`l)
n.
[Origin uncertain.]
1.
The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
[Low, U. S.]
Bartlett.

2.
Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
[Polit. slang, U. S.]


word: Bogey₂
definition:
Bogey

Bo"gey
(b&omacr"gē)
n.
pl. bogeys (b&omacr"gēz)
1.
A goblin; a bugbear.

I have become a sort of bogey -- a killjoy.
Wm. Black.

2.
(Golf)
A score on a given hole which is one stroke over par.  Originally, bogey had the same meaning as par does now, i.e. a given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- said to be so-called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey.  A double bogey is a score of two strokes over par.

3.
(Golf)
Par.  See sense 2, above.
[Archaic]

4.
(Military)
An unidentified aircraft, especially one detected on a radar screen and believed to be an enemy airplane.
[Also spelled bogie.]


word: Bogeyman₂
definition:
Bogeyman

Boogeyman

{Boog"ey*man (bŏg"ē*măn), Bo"gey*man  }
(_;)
n.
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc.
Boogeyman

Syn. -- Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; booger; bugaboo; bugbear.


word: boogie
definition:
boogie

boogie
(bŏ"gē)
n.
1.
(Music)
An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).

Syn. -- boogie-woogie.

2.
A black person; -- offensive and disparaging.
[slang]


word: boogie₂
definition:
boogie

boog"ie
(bŏg"ē)
v. i.
To do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music.


word: boogie-woogie
definition:
boogie-woogie

boogie-woogie
(bŏg"ē*wŏg"ē)
n.
(Music)
An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).

Syn. -- boogie.


word: Boohoo
definition:
Boohoo

Boo`hoo"
(bō`hō")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Boohooed (bō`hōd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Boohooing.]
[An imitative word.]
To bawl; to cry loudly.
[Low]
Bartlett.


word: Book
definition:
Book

Book
(bŏk)
n.
[OE. book, bok, AS. b&omacrc; akin to Goth. b&omacrka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b&omacrk, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b&omacrk, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b&omacrc, bēce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech.]
1.
A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

&hand_; When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet.

&hand_; It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns.
Abbott.

2.
A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Milton.

3.
A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of “Paradise Lost.”

4.
A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.; -- often used in the plural; as, they got a subpoena to examine our books.

Syn. -- ledger, leger, account book, book of account.
5.
Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of bridge or whist, being the minimum number of tricks that must be taken before any additional tricks are counted as part of the score for that hand; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

6.
(Drama)
a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; -- used in preparing for a performance.
Syn. -- script, playscript.

7.
a set of paper objects (tickets, stamps, matches, checks etc.) bound together by one edge, like a book; as, he bought a book of stamps.

8.
a book or list, actual or hypothetical, containing records of the best performances in some endeavor; a recordbook; -- used in the phrase one for the book or one for the books.
Syn. -- record, recordbook.

9.
(Sport)
the set of facts about an athlete's performance, such as typical performance or playing habits or methods, that are accumulated by potential opponents as an aid in deciding how best to compete against that athlete; as, the book on Ted Williams suggests pitching to him low and outside.

10.
(Finance)
same as book value.

11.
(Stock market)
the list of current buy and sell orders maintained by a stock market specialist.

12.
(Commerce)
the purchase orders still outstanding and unfilled on a company's ledger; as, book to bill ratio.

&hand_; Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook.

Book account, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. -- Book debt, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. -- Book learning, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. “Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false.” Burnet. -- Book louse (Zool.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the Pseudoneuroptera. -- Book moth (Zool.), the name of several species of moths, the larvæ of which eat books. -- Book oath, an oath made on The Book, or Bible. -- The Book of Books, the Bible. -- Book post, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail. -- Book scorpion (Zool.), one of the false scorpions (Chelifer cancroides) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. -- Book stall, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. -- Canonical books. See Canonical. -- In one's books, in one's favor.  “I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.” Addison. -- To bring to book. (a) To compel to give an account. (b) To compare with an admitted authority. “To bring it manifestly to book is impossible.” M. Arnold.  -- by the book,  according to standard procedures; using the correct or usual methods. -- cook the books,  make fallacious entries in or otherwise manipulate a financial record book for fraudulent purposes. -- To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell. -- To make book (Horse Racing), to conduct a business of accepting or placing bets from others on horse races. -- To make a book (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. -- off the books, not recorded in the official financial records of a business; -- usually used of payments made in cash to fraudulently avoid payment of taxes or of employment benefits. -- one for the book, one for the books, something extraordinary, such as a record-breaking performance or a remarkable accomplishment. -- To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness. -- to throw the book at, to impose the maximum fine or penalty for an offense; -- usually used of judges imposing penalties for criminal acts. -- Without book. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority. -- to write the book, to be the leading authority in a field; -- usually used in the past tense; as, he's not just an average expert, he wrote the book.


word: Book₂
definition:
Book

Book
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Booked (bŏkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.]
1.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.
Shak.

2.
To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve{2}; also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

3.
To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
[Colloq.]

Here I am booked for three days more in Paris.
Charles Reade.

4.
To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); -- performed by police.


word: bookable
definition:
bookable

bookable
adj.
subject to being reserved or booked.
all seats bookable in advance

Syn. -- reservable.


word: Bookbindery
definition:
Bookbindery

Book"bind`er*y
(bŏk"bīnd`ẽr*&ybreve_;)
n.
A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.


word: Bookcase
definition:
Bookcase

Book"case`
(bŏk"kās`)
n.
A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.


word: Booked
definition:
Booked

Booked
(bŏkt)
a.
1.
Registered.

2.
On the way; destined.
[Colloq.]

3.
reserved in advance; held for future use.  See reserve{2}.


word: bookend
definition:
bookend

book"end
(bŏk"ĕnd`)
n.
A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table).


word: Bookful
definition:
Bookful

Book"ful
(bŏk"f&usdot_;l)
n.
As much as will fill a book; a book full.
Shak.
a. Filled with book learning. [R.] “The bookful blockhead.”
Pope.


word: Bookholder
definition:
Bookholder

Book"hold`er
(bŏk"h&omacrld`ẽr)
n.
1.
A prompter at a theater.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

2.
A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.


word: Booking clerk
definition:
Booking clerk

Book"ing clerk`
(bŏk"ĭng klẽrk`; Eng. klärk`)
A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.


word: Booking office
definition:
Booking office

Book"ing of`fice
(bŏk"ĭng &obreve_;f`fĭs)
1.
An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

2.
An office where passage tickets are sold.
[Eng.]


word: Bookish
definition:
Bookish

Book"ish
a.
1.
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
bookish
Addison.
Bookish
Bp. Hall.

2.
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.


word: Bookkeeper
definition:
Bookkeeper

Book"keep`er
(_;)
n.
One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.


word: Bookkeeping
definition:
Bookkeeping

Book"keep`ing
n.
The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger.

Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. -- Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order tha_; the one entry may check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of its origin, the Italian method.


word: Bockland₂
definition:
Bockland

Bookland

{ Book"land` (_;), Bock"land`  }
(_;)
n.
[AS. b&omacrcland; b&omacrc book + land land.]
(O. Eng. Law)
Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.


word: Book-learned
definition:
Book-learned

Book"-learned`
(_;)
a.
Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.
[Often in a disparaging sense.]

Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say,
Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.
Dryden.


word: booklouse
definition:
booklouse

book"louse`
n.
(Zool.)
a minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

Syn. -- book louse, deathwatch.


word: Bookmaker
definition:
Bookmaker

Book"mak`er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

2.
(Horse Racing)
A betting man who “makes a book.”  See To make a book, under Book, n.


word: Bookmark
definition:
Bookmark

Book"mark`
(_;)
n.
Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.


word: Book muslin
definition:
Book muslin

Book" mus`lin
(_;)
1.
A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.

2.
A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.


word: Bookplate
definition:
Bookplate

Book"plate`
(_;)
n.
A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.


word: Bookstand
definition:
Bookstand

Book"stand`
(_;)
n.
1.
A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

2.
A stand to hold books for reading or reference.


word: Bookstore
definition:
Bookstore

Book"store`
(_;)
n.
A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.


word: Bookwork
definition:
Bookwork

Book"work`
(_;)
n.
1.
Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

2.
Study; application to books.


word: Bookworm
definition:
Bookworm

Book"worm`
(_;)
n.
1.
(Zool.)
Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

2.
A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.

I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there.
Pope.


word: Booly
definition:
Booly

Boo"ly
(_;)
n.
pl. Boolies (_;).
[Ir. buachail cowherd; bo cow + giolla boy.]
A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
[Obs.]
[Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.]
Spenser.


word: Boom
definition:
Boom

Boom
(bōm)
n.
[D. boom tree, pole, beam, bar. See Beam.]
1.
(Naut.)
A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

2.
(Mech.)
A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

3.
A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.
[Obs.]

4.
(Mil. & Naval)
A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

5.
(Lumbering)
A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.

Boom iron, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.


word: Boom₂
definition:
Boom

Boom
(bōm)
v. t.
(Naut.)
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.


word: Boom₃
definition:
Boom

Boom
(bōm)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Boomed (_;), p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.]
[Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]
1.
To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone.
Tennyson.

2.
To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

Alarm guns booming through the night air.
W. Irving.

3.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

She comes booming down before it.
Totten.

4.
To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.


word: Boom₄
definition:
Boom

Boom
n.
1.
A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.

2.
A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Boom₅
definition:
Boom

Boom
v. t.
To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a “boom” for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: boom box
definition:
boom box

boom box
n.
a large portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver.  It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes.

Syn. -- ghetto blaster.


word: Boomdas
definition:
Boomdas

Boom"das
(_;)
n.
[D. boom tree + das badger.]
(Zool.)
A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.


word: Boomer
definition:
Boomer

Boom"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, booms.

2.
(Zool.)
A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.

3.
(Zool.)
A large male kangaroo.

4.
One who works up a “boom”.
[Slang, U. S.]


word: Boomerang
definition:
Boomerang

Boom"er*ang
(_;)
n.
A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.


word: Booming
definition:
Booming

Boom"ing
a.
1.
Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.

O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar.
Falcone.

2.
Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Booming₂
definition:
Booming

Boom"ing
n.
The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.
Howitt.


word: Boomorah
definition:
Boomorah

Boo"mo*rah
(_;)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A small West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.


word: Boomslange
definition:
Boomslange

Boom"slang*e
(_;)
n.
[D. boom tree + slang snake.]
(Zool.)
A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.


word: Boon
definition:
Boon

Boon
(bōn)
n.
[OE. bone, boin, a petition, fr. Icel. b&omacrn; akin to Sw. & Dan. bän, AS. bēn, and perh. to E. ban; but influenced by F. bon good, fr. L. bonus. √86. See 2d Ban, Bounty.]
1.
A prayer or petition.
[Obs.]

For which to God he made so many an idle boon.
Spenser.

2.
That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above.
James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. ).


word: Boon₂
definition:
Boon

Boon
a.
[F. bon. See Boon, n.]
1.
Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
[Obs.]

2.
Kind; bountiful; benign.

Which . . . Nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
Milton.

3.
Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

A boon companion, loving his bottle.
Arbuthnot.


word: Boon₃
definition:
Boon

Boon
n.
[Scot. boon, bune, been, Gael. & Ir. bunach coarse tow, fr. bun root, stubble.]
The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.


word: boondocks
definition:
boondocks

boondocks
n.
a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used deprecatingly.

Syn. -- backwoods, back country, hinterland.


word: boondoggle
definition:
boondoggle

boon"dog*gle
v.
1.
a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.
2.
a useless, wasteful, or impractical project; -- especially one authorized by a government agency as a favor to partisans, to employ unemployed people, or in return for corrupt payments.


word: Boor
definition:
Boor

Boor
(bōr)
n.
[D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS. gebūr countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. būan to inhabit, and akin to E. bower, be. Cf. Neighbor, Boer, and Big to build.]
1.
A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

2.
A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

3.
A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.


word: Boorish
definition:
Boorish

Boor"ish
a.
Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n.

Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion.
Milton.


word: Boose
definition:
Boose

Boose
(_;)
n.
[AS. b&omacrs, b&omacrsig; akin to Icel. bāss, Sw. bås, Dan. baas, stall, G. banse, Goth. bansts barn, Skr. bhāsas stall. √252.]
A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Boost
definition:
Boost

Boost
(bōst)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boosting.]
[Cf. Boast, v. i.]
To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Boost₂
definition:
Boost

Boost
(bōst)
n.
A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
[Colloq. U. S.]


word: Booster
definition:
Booster

Boost"er
(bōst"ẽr)
n.
1.
(Elec.)
An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to “boost”, or raise, the pressure in the circuit.

2.
an enthusiastic supporter.

3.
the first stage of a multistage rocket, providing all or part of the driving force at lift-off and until the second stage ignites, whether or not the booster stage is detached after the fuel is spent.  Also called booster rocket.  In some cases, a booster has been used to assist the takeoff of airplanes.

4.
(Med.)
an immunizing medication given after an initial immunizing treatment, to provide increased or extended immunity.  Also called booster dose.  When in the form of an injection, it may be called a booster shot.

5.
any auxiliary device or part of a device to provide increased power, force, or effectiveness, as with a pumping device.

6.
(Mil.)
an explosive charge which is more powerful than a primer, used in conjunction with a primer to assure detonation of the main charge.  Integrated blasting caps containing separate compartments for primer and booster are used as detonators for certain explosives.


word: Boot
definition:
Boot

Boot
(bōt)
n.
[OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, AS. b&omacrt; akin to Icel. b&omacrt, Sw. bot, Dan. bod, Goth. b&omacrta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. √255.]
1.
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

He gaf the sike man his boote.
Chaucer.

Thou art boot for many a bruise
And healest many a wound.
Sir W. Scott.

Next her Son, our soul's best boot.
Wordsworth.

2.
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
Shak.

3.
Profit; gain; advantage; use.
[Obs.]

Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.
Shak.

To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.

Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
Shak.

A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Boot₂
definition:
Boot

Boot
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1.
To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
Hooker.

What subdued
To change like this a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know.
Byron.

What boots to us your victories?
Southey.

2.
To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
[Obs.]

And I will boot thee with what gift beside
Thy modesty can beg.
Shak.


word: Boot₃
definition:
Boot

Boot
n.
[OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of uncertain origin.]
1.
A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

2.
An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg.
Bp. Burnet.

3.
A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
[Obs.]

4.
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

5.
An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

6.
(Plumbing)
The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. -- Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.


word: Boot₄
definition:
Boot

Boot
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1.
To put boots on, esp. for riding.

Coated and booted for it.
B. Jonson.

2.
To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
[U. S.]


word: Booted
definition:
Booted

Boot"ed
(_;)
a.
1.
Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

2.
(Zool.)
Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.


word: Bootes
definition:
Bootes

Bo*ö"tes
(bo̝*&omacr"tēz)
prop. n.
[L. Bootes, Gr. bow`ths herdsman, fr. boy^s, gen. boo`s, ox, cow.]
(Astron.)
A northern constellation of stars near Ursa Major, containing the bright star Arcturus.


word: Booth
definition:
Booth

Booth
(bō&thlig_;)
n.
[OE. bothe; cf. Icel. būð, Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. būan to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]
1.
A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
Camden.

2.
A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or market, or at a polling place.

3.
a partly enclosed area within a room for use of one or a small number of people, such as one in a restaurant having a table and seats, or one at an exhibition containing a display of products from one organization.

4.
a small structure designed for the use of one person performing a special activity; as, a telephone booth; a highway toll booth; a projection booth; a guard booth.


word: Boothale
definition:
Boothale

Boot"hale`
(_;)
v. t. & i.
[Boot, for booty + hale.]
To forage for booty; to plunder.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Boothose
definition:
Boothose

Boot"hose`
(_;)
n.
1.
Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
Shak.

2.
Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bootikin
definition:
Bootikin

Boot"i*kin
(_;)
n.
[Boot + -kin.]
1.
A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

2.
A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.
H. Walpole.


word: Booting₂
definition:
Booting

Boot"ing
n.
1.
A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

2.
A kicking, as with a booted foot.
[U. S.]


word: bootleg
definition:
bootleg

bootleg
adj.
distributed or sold illicitly; especially, imported illegally.

Syn. -- black-market, contraband, smuggled.


word: bootleg₂
definition:
bootleg

bootleg
v.
1.
to sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.

Syn. -- smuggle.

2.
to produce alcohol illegally.


word: Bootless
definition:
Bootless

Boot"less
(_;)
a.
[From Boot profit.]
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
Chaucer.

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
Shak.


word: bootlicker
definition:
bootlicker

bootlicker
n.
someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect.

Syn. -- apple polisher, bootlick, fawner, groveller, truckler, ass-kisser, toady.


word: bootlicking
definition:
bootlicking

bootlicking
adj.
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

Syn. -- fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish, ass-kissing.


word: Boottopping
definition:
Boottopping

Boot"top`ping
(_;)
n.
1.
(Naut.)
The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

2.
(Naut.)
Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.


word: Boottree
definition:
Boottree

Boot"tree`
(_;)
n.
[Boot + tree wood, timber.]
An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.

The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees.
Thackeray.


word: Booty
definition:
Booty

Boo"ty
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Icel. b&ymacr_;ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.]
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Milton.

To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.


word: booyong
definition:
booyong

booyong
n.
large tree (Heritiera trifoliolata or Terrietia trifoliolata) of Australasia.

Syn. -- red beech, brown oak, crow's foot, stave wood, silky elm.


word: Booze
definition:
Booze

Booze
(bōz)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Boozed (bōzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Boozing.]
[D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.]
To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
[Written also bouse, and boose.]
Landor.

This is better than boozing in public houses.
H. R. Haweis.


word: Booze₂
definition:
Booze

Booze
n.
1.
A carouse; a drinking.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
any alcoholic beverage, especially a strong beverage such as whiskey.


word: boozing
definition:
boozing

booz"ing
n.
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.

Syn. -- drink, drinking, drunkenness, crapulence.


word: Boozy
definition:
Boozy

Booz"y
(_;)
a.
A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
[Colloq.]
C. Kingsley.


word: Bopeep
definition:
Bopeep

Bo*peep"
(_;)
n.
[Bo + peep.]
The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.

I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bopeep,
And go the fools among.
Shak.


word: Borachte
definition:
Borachte

Bo*rach"te
(_;)
n.
[Sp. borracha a leather bottle for wine, borracho drunk, fr. borra a lamb.]
A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
[Obs.]

You're an absolute borachio.
Congreve.


word: Boracic
definition:
Boracic

Bo*rac"ic
(_;)
a.
[Cf. F. boracique. See Borax.]
Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.


word: Boracite
definition:
Boracite

Bo"ra*cite
(_;)
n.
(Min.)
A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.


word: Borage
definition:
Borage

Bor"age
(_;)
n.
[OE. borage (cf. F. bourrache, It. borraggine, borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. _;), fr. LL. borra, F. bourre, hair of beasts, flock; so called from its hairy leaves.]
(Bot.)
A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.


word: Boraginaceous
definition:
Boraginaceous

Bo*rag`i*na"ceous
(_;)
a.
(Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.


word: Borassus
definition:
Borassus

Borassus
n.
a genus of palm trees including the palmyra (Borassus flabellifer, formerly Borassus flabelliformis).

Syn. -- genus Borassus.


word: Borate
definition:
Borate

Bo"rate
(_;)
n.
[From Boric.]
(Chem.)
A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.


word: Borax
definition:
Borax

Bo"rax
(_;)
n.
[OE. boras, fr. F. borax, earlier spelt borras; cf. LL. borax, Sp. borraj; all fr. Ar. b_;rag, fr. Pers. b_;rah.]
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

Borax bead. (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.


word: Borborygm
definition:
Borborygm

Bor"bo*rygm
(_;)
n.
[F. borborygme, fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to rumble in the bowels.]
(Med.)
A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
Dunglison.


word: Bord
definition:
Bord

Bord
(_;)
n.
[See Board, n.]
1.
A board; a table.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
(Mining)
The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.


word: Bordage
definition:
Bordage

Bord"age
(_;)
n.
[LL. bordagium.]
The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.


word: Bordar
definition:
Bordar

Bord"ar
(_;)
n.
[LL. bordarius, fr. borda a cottage; of uncertain origin.]
A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm.
J. R. Green.


word: Bordeaux
definition:
Bordeaux

Bor*deaux"
(_;)
a.
Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
n. A claret wine from Bordeaux.


word: Bordeaux mixture
definition:
Bordeaux mixture

Bor*deaux" mix"ture
(Hort.)
A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.


word: Bordello
definition:
Bordello

Bordel

{ Bor"del (_;), Bor*del"lo (_;), }
n.
[F. bordel, orig. a little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin to E. board,n.See. Board, n.]
A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Bordelais
definition:
Bordelais

Bor`de*lais"
(_;)
a.
[F.]
Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.


word: Bordello₂
definition:
Bordello

Bor"del*lo
(_;)
n.
a building where prostitutes are available for hire; a brothel.

Syn. -- whorehouse, whore house, brothel, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, bawdy house, cathouse, sporting house.


word: Border
definition:
Border

Bor"der
(_;)
n.
[OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., and cf. Bordure.]
1.
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

Upon the borders of these solitudes.
Bentham.

In the borders of death.
Barrow.

2.
A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

3.
A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

4.
A narrow flower bed.

Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.


word: Border₂
definition:
Border

Bor"der
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bordered (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bordering.]
1.
To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

2.
To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Abp. Tillotson.


word: Border₃
definition:
Border

Bor"der
v. t.
1.
To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

2.
To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.

The country is bordered by a broad tract called the “hot region.”
Prescott.

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf.
Sir W. Raleigh.

3.
To confine within bounds; to limit.
[Obs.]

That nature, which contemns its origin,
Can not be bordered certain in itself.
Shak.


word: Bordereau
definition:
Bordereau

Bor`de*reau"
(?)
n.
pl. Bordereaux (#)
[F.]
A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.


word: bordered
definition:
bordered

bor"dered
adj.
having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; as, black-bordered handkerchief.  Antonym of unbordered.
boxed
deckled, deckle-edged, featheredged
lined
seagirt, sea-girt
Also See: finite.


word: Borderer
definition:
Borderer

Bor"der*er
(_;)
n.
One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.

Borderers of the Caspian.
Dyer.


word: Bordland
definition:
Bordland

Bord"land`
(_;)
n.
[Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + land.]
(O. Eng. Law)
Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
Spelman.


word: Bordlode
definition:
Bordlode

Bord"lode`
(_;)
n.
[Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + lode leading.]
(O. Eng. Law)
The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
Bailey. Mozley & W.


word: Bordraging
definition:
Bordraging

Bordrag

{ Bord"rag (_;), Bord"ra`ging (_;), }
n.
[Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. Bodrage.]
An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Bord service
definition:
Bord service

Bord" serv`ice
(_;)
[Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + service.]
(O. Eng. Law)
Service due from a bordar; bordage.


word: Bordure
definition:
Bordure

Bor"dure
(_;)
n.
[F. bordure. See Border, n.]
(Her.)
A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.


word: Bore
definition:
Bore

Bore
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bored (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Boring.]
[OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan. bore, D. boren, OHG. por_;n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. _; to plow, Zend bar. √91.]
1.
To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
Shak.

2.
To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood.
T. W. Harris.

3.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
bored
Gay.

4.
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

He bores me with some trick.
Shak.

Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
Carlyle.

5.
To befool; to trick.
[Obs.]

I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Bore₂
definition:
Bore

Bore
v. i.
1.
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

2.
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

3.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

They take their flight . . . boring to the west.
Dryden.

4.
(Man.)
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
Crabb.


word: Bore₃
definition:
Bore

Bore
(b&omacrr)
n.
1.
A hole made by boring; a perforation.

2.
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

The bores of wind instruments.
Bacon.

Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing.
Shak.

3.
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

4.
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

5.
Caliber; importance.
[Obs.]

Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
Shak.

6.
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
Hawthorne.


word: Bore₄
definition:
Bore

Bore
n.
[Icel. bāra wave: cf. G. empor upwards, OHG. bor height, burren to lift, perh. allied to AS. beran, E. 1st bear. √92.]
(Physical Geog.)
(a)
A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
(b)
Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.


word: Boreal
definition:
Boreal

Bo"re*al
(_;)
a.
[L. borealis: cf. F. boréal. See Boreas.]
1.
Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

So from their own clear north in radiant streams,
Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn.
Thomson.

2.
(Biogeography)
Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18° C. (= 64.4° F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and Boreal zone, the latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones.


word: Borecole
definition:
Borecole

Bore"cole`
(_;)
n.
[Cf. D. boerenkool (lit.) husbandman's cabbage.]
A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.


word: bored
definition:
bored

bored
adj.
tired of the world; bored with life.

Syn. -- world-weary.

2.
uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.  Opposite of interested.

Syn. -- blase.


word: Boredom
definition:
Boredom

Bore"dom
(_;)
n.
1.
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Dickens.

2.
The realm of bores; bores, collectively.


word: bore-hole
definition:
bore-hole

bore-hole
n.
(mining)
a hole or passage made by a drill, especially one made for exploratory purposes.

Syn. -- bore, drill hole.


word: Borele
definition:
Borele

Bor"e*le
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).


word: Borer
definition:
Borer

Bor"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One that bores; an instrument for boring.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
(b)
Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
(c)
One of the larvæ of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
(d)
The hagfish (Myxine).


word: Boric
definition:
Boric

Bo"ric
(_;)
a.
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

Boric acid, a white crystalline substance B(OH)3, easily obtained from its salts, and occurring in solution in the hot lagoons of Tuscany.


word: Boride
definition:
Boride

Bo"ride
(_;)
n.
(Chem.)
A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.


word: Boring
definition:
Boring

Bor"ing
(_;)
n.
1.
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells.
Tomlinson.

2.
A hole made by boring.

3.
pl.
The chips or fragments made by boring.

Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.


word: Born
definition:
Born

Born
(bôrn)
p. p. & a.
[See Bear, v. t.]
1.
Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.

No one could be born into slavery in Mexico.
Prescott.

2.
Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.
born
W. D. Howells.

Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. “Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.” John iii. 3. -- Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [Colloq.]


word: Borneol
definition:
Borneol

Bor"ne*ol
(_;)
n.
[Borneo + -ol.]
(Chem.)
A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.


word: Bornite
definition:
Bornite

Bor"nite
(_;)
n.
[Named after Von Born, a mineralogist.]
(Min.)
A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.


word: Borofluoride
definition:
Borofluoride

Bo`ro*flu"or*ide
(_;)
n.
[Boron + fluoride.]
(Chem.)
A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.


word: Boroglyceride
definition:
Boroglyceride

Bo"ro*glyc"er*ide
(_;)
n.
[Boron + glyceride.]
(Chem.)
A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.


word: Boron
definition:
Boron

Bo"ron
(b&omacr"r&obreve_;n)
n.
[See Borax.]
(Chem.)
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic number 5. Atomic weight 10.81. Symbol B.


word: Borosilicate
definition:
Borosilicate

Bo"ro*sil"i*cate
(_;)
n.
[Boron + silicate.]
(Chem.)
A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.


word: Borough
definition:
Borough

Bor"ough
(_;)
n.
[OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. baúrgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. √95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow, Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor, Hauberk.]
1.
In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Burrill. Erskine.

2.
The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.


word: Borough₂
definition:
Borough

Bor"ough
n.
[See Borrow.]
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
(b)
The pledge or surety thus given.
Blackstone. Tomlins.


word: Borough-English
definition:
Borough-English

Bor"ough-Eng"lish
(_;)
n.
(Eng. Law)
A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.
Blackstone.


word: Boroughmaster
definition:
Boroughmaster

Bor"ough*mas"ter
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Burgomaster.]
The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.


word: Boroughmongery
definition:
Boroughmongery

Boroughmongering

{ Bor"ough*mon"ger*ing, Bor"ough*mon"ger*y  }
(_;)
n.
The practices of a boroughmonger.


word: Borrel
definition:
Borrel

Bor"rel
(_;)
n.
[OF. burel a kind of coarse woolen cloth, fr. F. bure drugget. See Bureau. Rustic and common people dressed in this cloth, which was prob. so called from its color.]
1.
Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.


word: Borrel₂
definition:
Borrel

Bor"rel
a.
[Prob. from Borrel, n.]
Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Borrow
definition:
Borrow

Bor"row
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Borrowed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Borrowing.]
[OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. _;95. See 1st Borough.]
1.
To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.

2.
(Arith.)
To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

3.
To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

Rites borrowed from the ancients.
Macaulay.

It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
Milton.

4.
To feign or counterfeit.
Borrowed
Spenser.

The borrowed majesty of England.
Shak.

5.
To receive; to take; to derive.

Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother.
Shak.

To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.


word: Borrow₂
definition:
Borrow

Bor"row
n.
1.
Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
[Obs.]

Ye may retain as borrows my two priests.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
The act of borrowing.
[Obs.]

Of your royal presence I'll adventure
The borrow of a week.
Shak.


word: borscht
definition:
borscht

borscht
n.
[Yiddish borscht, fr. Russian]
a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream.  Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Syn. -- borsch, borsh, borsht, borshch, bortsch.


word: borsh
definition:
borsh

borsh
n.
[Yiddish borscht, fr. Russian]
a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream.  Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Syn. -- borsch, borscht, borsht, borshch, bortsch.


word: borshch
definition:
borshch

borshch
n.
[Yiddish borscht, fr. Russian]
a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream.  Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Syn. -- borsch, borsh, borscht, borsht, bortsch.


word: Borsholder
definition:
Borsholder

Bors"hold`er
(_;)
n.
[OE. borsolder; prob. fr. AS. borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a.]
(Eng. Law)
The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
Spelman.


word: borsht
definition:
borsht

borsht
n.
[Russian]
a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream.  Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Syn. -- borsch, borsh, borscht, borshch, bortsch.


word: Bort
definition:
Bort

Bort
(_;)
n.
Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.


word: bortsch
definition:
bortsch

bortsch
n.
[Russian]
a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream.  Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Syn. -- borsch, borsh, borscht, borshch, bortsch.


word: borzoi
definition:
borzoi

borzoi
n.
[Russian.]
tall, slender fast-moving dog breed; called also Russian wolfhound.

Syn. -- Russian wolfhound.


word: Bos
definition:
Bos

Bos
(_;)
prop. n.
[L., ox, cow.]
(Zool.)
A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.


word: bosa
definition:
bosa

bo"sa
(b&omacr"zȧ)
n.
[Ar. būza, Pers. būzah: cf. F. bosan.]
A drink, used in the East. See Boza.


word: boscage
definition:
boscage

bos"cage
(_;)
n.
[OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush.]
1.
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

2.
(O. Eng. Law)
Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.


word: Bose-Einstein statistics
definition:
Bose-Einstein statistics

Bo`se-Ein"stein sta*tis"tics
(b&omacr`ze̝ īn"stīn stȧ*tĭs"tĭks)
prop. n.
[From physicists S. N. Bose, and Albert Einstein.]
(Physics)
A law of statistical mechanics which is obeyed by a system of particles when interchange of two particles does not change the wave function.  Contrasted to Fermi-Dirac statistics.  See also boson.


word: Boselaphus
definition:
Boselaphus

Boselaphus
prop. n.
A genus of Indian antelopes; the nilgais.

Syn. -- genus Boselaphus.


word: Bosh
definition:
Bosh

Bosh
(_;)
n.
[Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught, sketch.]
Figure; outline; show.
[Obs.]


word: Bosh₃
definition:
Bosh

Bosh
n.
pl. Boshes (_;).
[Cf. G. böschung a slope.]

1.
One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

2.
pl.
The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

3.
In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.


word: Boshvark
definition:
Boshvark

Bosh"vark
(_;)
n.
[D. bosch wood + varken pig.]
(Zool.)
The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.


word: Bosquet
definition:
Bosquet

Bosket

{ Bos"ket, Bos"quet  }
(_;)
n.
[F. bosquet a little wood, dim. fr. LL. boscus. See Boscage, and cf. Bouquet.]
(Gardening)
A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.


word: Bosky
definition:
Bosky

Bosk"y
(_;)
a.
[Cf. Bushy.]
1.
Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
Milton.

2.
Caused by boscage.

Darkened over by long bosky shadows.
H. James.


word: bo's'n
definition:
bo's'n

bo's'n
n.
a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.

Syn. -- boatswain, bos'n, bosun, bo'sun.


word: Bosnia-Herzegovina
definition:
Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina
n.
A country in the Balkan penninsula of southeastern Europe, formerly a part of Yugoslavia.

Syn. -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.


word: Bosom
definition:
Bosom

Bos"om
(bŏz"ŭm; 277)
n.
[AS. b&omacrsm; akin to D. bozem, Fries. b&omacrsm, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough.]
1.
The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

You must prepare your bosom for his knife.
Shak.

2.
Specifically:
The breasts of a woman; as, an ample bosom.

3.
The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.

Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
Wherefore they do it.
Shak.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom.
Job xxxi. 33.

4.
Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.

Within the bosom of that church.
Hooker.

5.
Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.
bosom
Addison.

6.
The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.

He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
Ex. iv. 6.

7.
Inclination; desire.
[Obs.]
Shak.

8.
A depression round the eye of a millstone.
Knight.


word: bosom
definition:
bosom

bos"om
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to the bosom.

2.
Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.


word: bosom₂
definition:
bosom

bos"om
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bosomed (-ŭmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bosoming.]
1.
To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome.
Shak.

2.
To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

To happy convents bosomed deep in vines.
Pope.


word: bosomed
definition:
bosomed

bos"omed
(bŏz"ŭmd)
a.
1.
Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

2.
[Combining form]
Having such a bosom; as, a big-bosomed woman.


word: bosomy
definition:
bosomy

bos"om*y
(bŏz"ŭm*&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

2.
Having a large bosom; -- of a woman.


word: boson
definition:
boson

bo"son
(b&omacr"z&obreve_;n)
n.
[From S. N. Bose, an Indian physicist.]
(Physics)
A fundamental particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistical rules, but not the Pauli exclusion principle; the spin value of a boson is always an integer.  Examples of bosons are alpha particles, photons, and those nuclei which have an even mass number.


word: Bosporian
definition:
Bosporian

Bos*po"ri*an
(_;)
a.
[L. Bosporus, G. Bo`sporos, lit., ox-ford, the ox's or heifer's ford, on account of Io's passage here as a heifer; fr. boy^s ox, heifer + po`ros ford.]
Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus.

The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians.
Tooke.


word: Bosporus
definition:
Bosporus

Bos"po*rus
(b&obreve_;s"po̝*rŭs)
n.
[L.]
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.
[Written also Bosphorus.]


word: Boss
definition:
Boss

Boss
(b&obreve_;s; 115)
n.
pl. Bosses (-ĕz).
[OE. boce, bose, boche, OF. boce, boche, bosse, F. bosse, of G. origin; cf. OHG. b&omacrzo tuft, bunch, OHG. b&omacrzan, MHG. bôzen, to beat. See Beat, and cf. Botch a swelling.]
1.
Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

2.
A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

3.
(Arch.)
A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.

4.
[Cf. D. bus box, Dan. bösse.]
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
Gwilt.

5.
(Mech.)
(a)
The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.
(b)
A swage or die used for shaping metals.

6.
A head or reservoir of water.
[Obs.]


word: Boss₂
definition:
Boss

Boss
(b&obreve_;s)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bossed (b&obreve_;st); p. pr. & vb. n. Bossing.]
[OE. bocen, fr. OF. bocier. See the preceding word.]
To ornament with bosses; to stud.


word: Boss₃
definition:
Boss

Boss
n.
[D. baas master.]
A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.
[Slang, U. S.]


word: Bossage
definition:
Bossage

Boss"age
(_;)
n.
[F. bossage, fr. bosse. See Boss a stud.]
1.
(Arch.)
A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.
Gwilt.

2.
(Arch.)
Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.
Gwilt.


word: Bosset
definition:
Bosset

Bos"set
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Boss a stud.]
(Zool.)
A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.


word: Bossy₂
definition:
Bossy

Bos"sy
n.
[Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose.]
A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.
[U. S.]


word: Boston
definition:
Boston

Bos"ton
(_;)
n.
A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.


word: Bostryx
definition:
Bostryx

Bos"tryx
(?)
n.
[NL.; irreg. fr. Gr. _; a curl.]
(Bot.)
A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.


word: bosun
definition:
bosun

bosun
n.
a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen; a contraction of boatswain.
[Also spelled bo'sun.]

Syn. -- boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bo'sun, boson.


word: Boswellia
definition:
Boswellia

Boswellia
n.
a genus of incense-yielding trees of North Africa and India.

Syn. -- genus Boswellia.


word: Boswellian
definition:
Boswellian

Bos*well"i*an
(?)
a.
Relating to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, whose hero worship made his narrative a faithful but often uncritical record of details.
Bos"well*ize (#), v. i. & t.


word: Botanical
definition:
Botanical

Botanic

{ Bo*tan"ic (_;), Bo*tan"ic*al (_;), }
a.
[Cf. F. botanique. See Botany.]
Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
Bo*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.

Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.


word: Botanist
definition:
Botanist

Bot"a*nist
(_;)
n.
[Cf. F. botaniste.]
One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.


word: Botanize
definition:
Botanize

Bot"a*nize
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Botanized (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Botanizing (_;).]
[Cf. F. botaniser.]
To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.


word: Botanology
definition:
Botanology

Bot`a*nol"o*gy
(_;)
n.
[Botany + -logy: cf. F. botanologie.]
The science of botany.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Botanomancy
definition:
Botanomancy

Bot"a*no*man`cy
(_;)
n.
[Botany + -mancy: cf. F. botanomantie.]
An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.


word: Botany
definition:
Botany

Bot"a*ny
(_;)
n.
pl. Botanies (_;).
[F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. _; botanic, fr. _; herb, plant, fr. _; to feed, graze.]
1.
The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

2.
A book which treats of the science of botany.

&hand_; Botany is divided into various departments; as, Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants; Physiological Botany, the study of their functions and life; and Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc.


word: Botany Bay
definition:
Botany Bay

Bot"a*ny Bay"
(_;)
A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.

Botany Bay kino (Med.), an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus. -- Botany Bay resin (Med.), a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass tree (Xanthorrhæa hastilis).


word: Botargo
definition:
Botargo

Bo*tar"go
(_;)
n.
[It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue.]
A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.


word: Botch
definition:
Botch

Botch
(_;)
n.
pl. Botches (_;).
[Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
1.
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
[Obs. or Dial.]

Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
Milton.

2.
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

3.
Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.
Shak.


word: Botch₂
definition:
Botch

Botch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Botched (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.]
[See Botch, n.]
1.
To mark with, or as with, botches.

Young Hylas, botched with stains.
Garth.

2.
To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.
Robynson (More's Utopia).

3.
To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
Dryden.


word: Botcher
definition:
Botcher

Botch"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
Shak.

2.
A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

3.
(Zool.)
A young salmon; a grilse.


word: Botchery
definition:
Botchery

Botch"er*y
(_;)
n.
A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.


word: Bote
definition:
Bote

Bote
(_;)
n.
[Old form of boot; -- used in composition. See 1st Boot.]
(Law)
(a)
Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
(b)
Payment of any kind.
Bouvier.
(c)
A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

&hand_; This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.  Burrill. Bouvier. Blackstone.


word: Botfly
definition:
Botfly

Bot"fly`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.


word: Both
definition:
Both

Both
(b&omacrth)
a. or pron.
[OE. bothe, baþe, fr. Icel. bāðir; akin to Dan. baade, Sw. båda, Goth. baj&omacrþs, OHG. beidē, bēdē, G. & D. beide, also AS. begen, bā, bū, Goth. bai, and Gr. 'a`mfw, L. ambo, Lith. abà, OSlav. oba, Skr. ubha. √310. Cf. Amb-.]
The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

&hand_; It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with nous, it is used substantively, and followed by of.

It frequently stands as a pronoun.

She alone is heir to both of us.
Shak.

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
Gen. xxi. 27.

He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.
Bolingbroke.

It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns.

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes.
Shak.

This said, they both betook them several ways.
Milton.

Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.

Both of is used before pronouns in the objective case; as, both of us, them, whom, etc.; but before substantives its used is colloquial, both (without of) being the preferred form; as, both the brothers.


word: Both₂
definition:
Both

Both
conj.
As well; not only; equally.

Both precedes the first of two coördinate words or phrases, and is followed by and before the other, both . . . and . . . ; as well the one as the other; not only this, but also that; equally the former and the latter. It is also sometimes followed by more than two coördinate words, connected by and expressed or understood.

To judge both quick and dead.
Milton.

A masterpiece both for argument and style.
Goldsmith.

To whom bothe heven and erthe and see is sene.
Chaucer.

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
Goldsmith.

He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
Coleridge.


word: Bother
definition:
Bother

Both"er
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bothered (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bothering.]
[Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex.]
To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

&hand_; The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory.


word: Bother₂
definition:
Bother

Both"er
v. i.
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

Without bothering about it.
H. James.


word: Bother₃
definition:
Bother

Both"er
n.
One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.


word: Botheration
definition:
Botheration

Both`er*a"tion
(_;)
n.
The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
[Colloq.]


word: Bothersome
definition:
Bothersome

Both"er*some
(_;)
a.
Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.


word: Both-hands
definition:
Both-hands

Both"-hands`
(_;)
n.
A factotum.
[R.]

He is his master's both-hands, I assure you.
B. Jonson.


word: Bothnic
definition:
Bothnic

Bothnian

{ Both"ni*an (_;), Both"nic (_;), }
a.
Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.


word: Bothrenchyma
definition:
Bothrenchyma

Both*ren"chy*ma
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; pit + _; something poured in. Formed like parenchyma.]
(Bot.)
Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.


word: Boothy₂
definition:
Boothy

Bothy

{ Both"y (_;) Booth"y  }
(_;)
n.
pl. -ies (_;)
[Scottish. Cf. Booth.]
A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.
[Scot.]


word: Botocudos
definition:
Botocudos

Bo`to*cu"dos
(_;)
n. pl.
[Pg. botoque stopple. So called because they wear a wooden plug in the pierced lower lip.]
A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymborés.


word: Bo tree
definition:
Bo tree

Bo" tree`
(_;)
(Bot.)
The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.

The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself.  . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches.
Tennent.


word: Botryogen
definition:
Botryogen

Bot"ry*o*gen
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; cluster of grapes + -gen.]
(Min.)
A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.


word: Botryoidal
definition:
Botryoidal

Botryoid

{ Bot"ry*oid (_;), Bot`ry*oid"al (_;), }
a.
[Gr. _; cluster of grapes + -oid.]
Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences; as, botryoidal hematite.

Syn. -- botryose.


word: Botryolite
definition:
Botryolite

Bot"ry*o*lite
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; cluster of grapes + -lite.]
(Min.)
A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.


word: Botryose
definition:
Botryose

Bot"ry*ose`
(_;)
a.
(Bot.)
(a)
Having the form of a cluster of grapes.
(b)
Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
Gray.


word: Bots
definition:
Bots

Bots
(_;)
n. pl.
[Cf. Gael. botus belly worm, boiteag maggot.]
(Zool.)
The larvæ of several species of botfly, especially those larvæ which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.
[Written also botts.]
See Illust. of Botfly.


word: Bottine
definition:
Bottine

Bot*tine"
(_;)
n.
[F. See Boot (for the foot.).]

1.
A small boot; a lady's boot.

2.
An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
Dunglison.


word: Bottle
definition:
Bottle

Bot"tle
(_;)
n.
[OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]
1.
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

2.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

3.
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

&hand_; Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.

Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] Shak. -- Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles. -- Bottle fish (Zool.), a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size. -- Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle. -- Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. Ure. -- Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc. -- Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail. -- Bottle tit (Zool.), the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest. -- Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. -- Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.


word: Bottle₂
definition:
Bottle

Bot"tle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bottled (_;) p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling (_;).]
To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.


word: Bottle₃
definition:
Bottle

Bot"tle
n.
[OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.]
A bundle, esp. of hay.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Chaucer. Shak.


word: Bottled
definition:
Bottled

Bot"tled
(_;)
a.
1.
Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

2.
Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.
Shak.


word: bottle-feed
definition:
bottle-feed

bottlefeed

bottlefeed, bottle-feed
v. t.
1.
to feed with a bottle; -- of infants or baby animals.

2.
to train, manage or instruct (a person) with great attention to detail.


word: bottlegrass
definition:
bottlegrass

bottlegrass
n.
(Bot.)
a European foxtail naturalized in North America; it is often a troublesome weed.

Syn. -- green bristlegrass, green foxtail, rough bristlegrass, bottle grass, Setaria viridis.


word: Bottle green
definition:
Bottle green

Bot"tle green`
(_;)
A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
Bot"tle-green`, a.


word: Bottlehead
definition:
Bottlehead

Bot"tle*head`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.

&hand_; There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more species of Hyperoödon (Hyperoödon bidens, etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.


word: Bottleholder
definition:
Bottleholder

Bot"tle*hold`er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

2.
One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.
[Colloq.]

Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states.
The London Times.


word: Bottleneck
definition:
Bottleneck

Bot"tle*neck`
1.
a location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded.

2.
a point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway.

3.
an impasse.

4.
a narrowing.

Syn. -- constriction.


word: bottleneck
definition:
bottleneck

bottleneck
v. t.
same as obstruct; as, his laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system.


word: bottleneck₂
definition:
bottleneck

bottleneck
v. i.
to become narrower as one approaches a point; -- said of roads; as, right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks.


word: Bottle-nosed dolphin
definition:
Bottle-nosed dolphin

Bottle-nose

Bot"tle-nose` Bot"tle-nosed` dolphin
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
1.
A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?

Syn. -- bottlenose dolphin.

2.
The puffin.

3.
a north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.

Syn. -- bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus.


word: Bottle-nosed
definition:
Bottle-nosed

Bot"tle-nosed`
(-n&omacrzd)
a.
Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
Dickens.


word: Bottling
definition:
Bottling

Bot"tling
(b&obreve_;t"tlĭng)
n.
The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and sealing the bottles, as with a cork or a bottle cap.


word: Bottom
definition:
Bottom

Bot"tom
(b&obreve_;t"tŭm)
n.
[OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn,     Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base.  √257.  Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.]
1.
The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

Or dive into the bottom of the deep.
Shak.

2.
The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.

Barrels with the bottom knocked out.
Macaulay.

No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
W. Irving.

3.
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

4.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

5.
The fundament; the buttocks.

6.
An abyss.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

7.
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
bottoms
Stoddard.

8.
(Naut.)
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Shak.

Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped.
Bancroft.

Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

9.
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

10.
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Johnson.

At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. “He was at the bottom a good man.” J. F. Cooper. -- To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman.
[1913 Webster]
He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison.
[1913 Webster]
 -- To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. -- To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.


word: Bottom₂
definition:
Bottom

Bot"tom
a.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton.

 -- Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.


word: Bottom₃
definition:
Bottom

Bot"tom
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bottomed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming.]

1.
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.

Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
Atterbury.

Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state].
South.

2.
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

3.
To reach or get to the bottom of.
Smiles.


word: Bottom₄
definition:
Bottom

Bot"tom
v. i.
1.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.

Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms.
Locke.

2.
To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.


word: Bottom₅
definition:
Bottom

Bot"tom
n.
[OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button.]
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
[Obs.]

Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days.
Mortimer.


word: Bottom₆
definition:
Bottom

Bot"tom
v. t.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
[Obs.]

As you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me.
Shak.


word: Bottomed
definition:
Bottomed

Bot"tomed
(_;)
a.
Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.


word: Bottom fermentation
definition:
Bottom fermentation

Bot"tom fer`men*ta"tion
A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4° - 10° C. (39° - 50°F.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.


word: Bottomless
definition:
Bottomless

Bot"tom*less
a.
Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
Bottomless
Burke.


word: Bottomry
definition:
Bottomry

Bot"tom*ry
(_;)
n.
[From 1st Bottom in sense 8: cf. D. bodemerij. Cf. Bummery.]
(Mar. Law)
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.


word: bottom-up
definition:
bottom-up

bottom-up
adj.
(Computers)
planning or building the smallest parts first; as, bottom-up programming.  Opposite of top-down.


word: Bottone
definition:
Bottone

Bottony

{ Bot"ton*y (_;), Bot"to*né (_;), }
a.
[F. boutonné, fr. boutonner to bud, button.]
(Her.)
Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.

Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.


word: Botuliform
definition:
Botuliform

Bot"u*li*form`
(_;)
a.
[L. botulus sausage + -form.]
(Bot.)
Having the shape of a sausage.
Henslow.


word: Bouch
definition:
Bouch

Bouche

{ &VerbarBouche, Bouch  }
(_;)
n.
[F. bouche mouth, victuals.]

1.
A mouth.
[Obs.]

2.
An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
[Obs.]


word: Bouchees
definition:
Bouchees

Bou`chées"
(_;)
n. pl.
[F., morsels, mouthfuls, fr. bouche mouth.]
(Cookery)
Small patties.


word: Boucherize
definition:
Boucherize

Bou"cher*ize
(?)
v. t.
[After Dr. Auguste Boucherie, a French chemist, who invented the process.]
To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.


word: Boudoir
definition:
Boudoir

Bou*doir"
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.]
A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's bedroom; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.
Cowper.


word: bouffant
definition:
bouffant

bouffant
adj.
being puffed out; -- used mostly of hair style, and sometimes clothing; as, a bouffant hairdo; a bouffant skirt.

Syn. -- puffy.


word: Bougainvillaea
definition:
Bougainvillaea

Bou`gain*vil*læ`a
(_;)
prop. n.
[Named from Bougainville, the French navigator.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.


word: Bouge
definition:
Bouge

Bouge
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bouged (_;)]
[Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge.]

1.
To swell out.
[Obs.]

2.
To bilge.
[Obs.]
bouged
Hakluyt.


word: Bouge₃
definition:
Bouge

Bouge
n.
[F. bouche mouth, victuals.]
Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.
[Obs.]

 [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting.
B. Jonson.


word: Bouget
definition:
Bouget

Bou"get
(_;)
n.
[Cf. F. bougette sack, bag. Cf. Budget.]
(Her.)
A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.


word: Bough
definition:
Bough

Bough
(_;)
n.
[OE. bogh, AS. b&omacrg, b&omacrh, bough,     shoulder; akin to Icel. b&omacrgr shoulder, bow of a ship, Sw. bog, Dan. bov, OHG. buog, G. bug, and to Gr._; ( for _; ) forearm, Skr. bāhu (for bhāghu) arm. √88, 251. Cf. Bow of a ship.]

1.
An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

2.
A gallows.
[Archaic]
Spenser.


word: boughless
definition:
boughless

boughless
adj.
1.
having no limbs.  Opposite of limbed.

Syn. -- limbless.

2.
lacking a bough or boughs. Opposite of boughed.


word: Bought
definition:
Bought

Bought
(_;)
n.
[Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug_;a. Cf. Bight, Bout, and see Bow to bend.]

1.
A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

The boughts of the fore legs.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
The part of a sling that contains the stone.
[Obs.]


word: Bougie
definition:
Bougie

Bou*gie"
(_;)
n.
[F. bougie wax candle, bougie, fr. Bougie, Bugia, a town of North Africa, from which these candles were first imported into Europe.]

1.
(Surg.)
A long, flexible instrument, that is introduced into the urethra, esophagus, etc., to remove obstructions, or for the other purposes. It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form.

2.
(Pharm.)
A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.


word: Bougie decimale
definition:
Bougie decimale

Bou*gie" dé`ci`male"
(?)
[F., lit., decimal candle.]
A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle.  Called also decimal candle.


word: Bouilli
definition:
Bouilli

Bou`illi"
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. bouillir to boil.]
(Cookery)
Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.


word: Bouillon
definition:
Bouillon

Bou`illon"
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. bouillir to boil.]
1.
A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

2.
(Far.)
An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.


word: Bouk
definition:
Bouk

Bouk
(bōk)
n.
[AS. būc belly; akin to G. bauch, Icel. būkr body.]

1.
The body.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Bulk; volume.
[Scot.]


word: Boulangerite
definition:
Boulangerite

Bou*lan"ger*ite
(_;)
n.
[From Boulanger, a French mineralogist.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact.  It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.


word: Boulangism
definition:
Boulangism

Bou*lan"gism
(?)
n.
[F. boulangisme.]
The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents.
Bou*lan"gist (#), n.


word: bouldered
definition:
bouldered

bouldered
adj.
abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.

Syn. -- rocky, bouldery, stony.


word: Boule
definition:
Boule

Bou"le
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;.]
1.
(Gr. Antiq.)
A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
The boule of Homeric times was an aristocratic body of princes and leaders, merely advisory to the king. The Athenian boule of Solon's time was an elective senate of 400, acting as a check on the popular ecclesia, for which it examined and prepared bills for discussion. It later increased to 500, chosen by lot, and extended its functions to embrace certain matters of administration and oversight.

2.
Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature.


word: Boulevard
definition:
Boulevard

Bou"le*vard`
(_;)
n.
[F. boulevard, boulevart, fr. G. bollwerk. See Bulwark.]

1.
Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

2.
A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.


word: Boulevardier
definition:
Boulevardier

Boule`var`dier"
(?)
n.
[F.]
A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.
F. Harrison.


word: Bouleversement
definition:
Bouleversement

Boule`verse`ment"
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. bouleverser to overthrow.]
Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.


word: Boultin
definition:
Boultin

Boultel

{ Boul"tel (_;), Boul"tin  }
(_;)
n.
(Arch.)
(a)
A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
(b)
One of the shafts of a clustered column.
[Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]


word: Boulter
definition:
Boulter

Boul"ter
(_;)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.


word: Bounce
definition:
Bounce

Bounce
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bounced (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing (_;).]
[OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.]

1.
To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
Swift.

Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
Dryden.

2.
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.

Out bounced the mastiff.
Swift.

Bounced off his arm+chair.
Thackeray.

3.
To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
[Obs.]


word: Bounce₂
definition:
Bounce

Bounce
v. t.
1.
To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
Swift.

2.
To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.

3.
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
[Collog. U. S.]

4.
To bully; to scold.
[Collog.]
J. Fletcher.


word: Bounce₃
definition:
Bounce

Bounce
(_;)
n.

1.
A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.

2.
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

The bounce burst open the door.
Dryden.

3.
An explosion, or the noise of one.
[Obs.]

4.
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
Johnson.  De Quincey._;

5.
(Zool.)
A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).


word: Bounce₄
definition:
Bounce

Bounce
adv.
With a sudden leap; suddenly.

This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
Bickerstaff.


word: Bouncer
definition:
Bouncer

Boun"cer
(_;)
n.
1.
One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

2.
A boaster; a bully.
[Collog.]
Johnson.

3.
A bold lie; also, a liar.
[Collog.]
Marryat.

4.
Something big; a good stout example of the kind.

The stone must be a bouncer.
De Quincey.

5.
a person employed by a tavern, nightclub, or other place of public meeting, to eject persons who become violent or unruly.


word: Bouncing
definition:
Bouncing

Boun"cing
(_;)
a.
1.
Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.

Many tall and bouncing young ladies.
Thackeray.

2.
Excessive; big.
bouncing
B. & Fl.

Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.


word: bouncy
definition:
bouncy

bouncy
adj.
1.
readily regaining its original shape or position after stretching, compression, or other deformation; as, clean bouncy hair.

Syn. -- live, lively, resilient, springy, whippy.

2.
showing a joyous enthusiasm.  Opposite of dull.

Syn. -- animated, bouncing, buoyant, exuberant, peppy, perky, spirited, zippy.


word: Bound
definition:
Bound

Bound
(bound)
n.
[OE. bounde, bunne, OF. bonne, bonde, bodne, F. borne, fr. LL. bodina, bodena, bonna; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bonn boundary, limit, and boden, bod, a tuft or cluster of trees, by which a boundary or limit could be marked. Cf. Bourne.]
The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds.
Job xxvi. 10.

On earth's remotest bounds.
Campbell.

And mete the bounds of hate and love.
Tennyson.

To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.


word: Bound₂
definition:
Bound

Bound
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bounding.]

1.
To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.

Where full measure only bounds excess.
Milton.

Phlegethon . . .
Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.
Dryden.

2.
To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.


word: Bound₃
definition:
Bound

Bound
v. i.
[F. bondir to leap, OF. bondir, bundir, to leap, resound, fr. L. bombitare to buzz, hum, fr. bombus a humming, buzzing. See Bomb.]

1.
To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.

Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds.
Pope.

And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
Byron.

2.
To rebound, as an elastic ball.


word: Bound₄
definition:
Bound

Bound
v. t.
1.
To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
[R.]
Shak.

2.
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
[Collog.]


word: Bound₅
definition:
Bound

Bound
n.
1.
A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.

A bound of graceful hardihood.
Wordsworth.

2.
Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
Johnson.

3.
(Dancing)
Spring from one foot to the other.


word: Bound₇
definition:
Bound

Bound
p. p. & a.
1.
Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

2.
Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.

3.
Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

4.
Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

5.
Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
[Collog. U. S.]

6.
Constipated; costive.

&hand_; Used also in composition; as, icebound, windbound, hidebound, etc.

Bound bailiff (Eng. Law), a sheriff's officer who serves writs, makes arrests, etc. The sheriff being answerable for the bailiff's misdemeanors, the bailiff is usually under bond for the faithful discharge of his trust. -- Bound up in, entirely devoted to; inseparable from.


word: Bound₈
definition:
Bound

Bound
a.
[Past p. of OE. bounen to prepare, fr. boun ready, prepared, fr. Icel. būinn, p. p. of būa to dwell, prepare; akin to E. boor and bower. See Bond, a., and cf. Busk, v.]
Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
bound
Cowper.


word: Boundary
definition:
Boundary

Bound"a*ry
(_;)
n.
pl. Boundaries (_;)
[From Bound a limit; cf. LL. bonnarium piece of land with fixed limits.]
That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

But still his native country lies
Beyond the boundaries of the skies.
N. Cotton.

 That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath.
Macaulay.

Sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts.
Locke.


word: bounded
definition:
bounded

bounded
adj.
1.
having the limits or boundaries established.

Syn. -- delimited.

2.
having a defined physical border.


word: Bounden
definition:
Bounden

Bound"en
(_;)
p. p & a.
[Old. p. p. of bind.]

1.
Bound; fastened by bonds.
[Obs.]

2.
Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.

This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point.
Ridley.

3.
Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.

I am much bounden to your majesty.
Shak.


word: Bounder
definition:
Bounder

Bound"er
(bound"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
Sir T. Herbert.

2.
One who behaves dishonorably or objectionably; a cad.


word: Bounding
definition:
Bounding

Bound"ing
a.
Moving with a bound or bounds.

The bounding pulse, the languid limb.
Montgomery.


word: Boundless
definition:
Boundless

Bound"less
a.
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.
boundless
Bryant.
boundless
Dryden.
Boundless
Boundless
Macaulay.


word: boundlessness
definition:
boundlessness

boundlessness
n.
the quality of being infinite.

Syn. -- infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness.


word: bounds
definition:
bounds

bounds
n.
1.
the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; as, the fotball was caught out of bounds.

Syn. -- boundary, bound.

2.
the greatest possible extent or degree of something.

Syn. -- limit, boundary.


word: Bounteous
definition:
Bounteous

Boun"te*ous
(_;)
a.
[OE. bountevous, fr. bounte bounty.]
Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.

But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good.
Cowper.


word: Bountiful
definition:
Bountiful

Boun"ti*ful
(_;)
a.

1.
Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.

God, the bountiful Author of our being.
Locke.

2.
Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.


word: Bountyhood
definition:
Bountyhood

Bountihead

{ Boun"ti*head (_;), Boun"ty*hood (_;), }
n.
Goodness; generosity.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Bounty
definition:
Bounty

Boun"ty
n.
pl. Bounties (_;).
[OE. bounte goodness, kindness, F. bonté, fr. L. bonitas, fr. bonus good, for older duonus; cf. Skr. duvas honor, respect.]

1.
Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
[Obs.]

Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
Gower.

2.
Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea.
Shak.

3.
That which is given generously or liberally.
bounties
Cowper.

4.
A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.

Bounty jumper, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.] -- Queen Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings.


word: Bouquet
definition:
Bouquet

Bou*quet"
(_;)
n.
[F. bouquet bunch, bunch of flowers, trees, feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. boscus. See Bush thicket, and cf. Bosket, Busket.]

1.
A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

2.
A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.


word: Bourbon
definition:
Bourbon

Bour"bon
(_;)
n.
[From the castle and seigniory of Bourbon in central France.]

1.
A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

2.
A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.


word: Bourbonism
definition:
Bourbonism

Bour"bon*ism
(_;)
n.
The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.


word: Bourdon
definition:
Bourdon

Bour"don
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. L. burdo mule, esp. one used for carrying litters. Cf. Sp. muleta a young she mule; also, crutch, prop.]
A pilgrim's staff.


word: Bourdon₂
definition:
Bourdon

Bour"don`
(_;)
n.
[F. See Burden a refrain.]
(Mus.)
(a)
A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
(b)
A kind of organ stop.


word: Bourgeois
definition:
Bourgeois

Bour*geois"
(_;)
n.
[From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or fr. F. bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G. bourgeois, borgis. Cf. Burgess.]
(Print.)
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

&hand_; This line is printed in bourgeois type.


word: Bourgeois₂
definition:
Bourgeois

Bour*geois"
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.]
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
[France.]


word: Bourgeoisie
definition:
Bourgeoisie

Bour*geoi*sie"
n.
[F.]
The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.


word: Bourgeon
definition:
Bourgeon

Bour"geon
(_;)
v. i.
[OE. burjoun a bud, burjounen to bud, F. bourgeon a bud, bourgeonner to bud; cf. OHG. burjan to raise.]
To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bouri
definition:
Bouri

Bou"ri
(_;)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.


word: Bourne
definition:
Bourne

Bourn

{ Bourn, Bourne  }
(_;)
n.
[OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. _;. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v.]
A stream or rivulet; a burn.

My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn.
Spenser.


word: Bourne₂
definition:
Bourne

Bourn

{ Bourn, Bourne  }
(_;)
n.
[F. borne. See Bound a limit.]
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

Where the land slopes to its watery bourn.
Cowper.

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns.
Shak.

Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song.
Wordsworth.

To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne.
Tyndall.


word: Bournonite
definition:
Bournonite

Bour"non*ite
(_;)
n.
[Named after Count Bournon, a mineralogist.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.


word: Bourse
definition:
Bourse

Bourse
(_;)
n.
[F. bourse purse, exchange, LL. bursa, fr. Gr._; skin, hide, of which a purse was usually made. Cf. Purse, Burse.]
An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.


word: bourtree
definition:
bourtree

bourtree
n.
common black-fruited shrub or small tree (Sambucus nigra) of Europe and Asia; -- the fruit is used for wines and jellies.

Syn. -- black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder.


word: Boustrophedon
definition:
Boustrophedon

Bou`stro*phe"don
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; turning like oxen in plowing; _; to turn.]
An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.


word: Bout
definition:
Bout

Bout
(_;)
n.
[A different spelling and application of bought bend.]

1.
As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

In notes with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
Milton.

The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout.
Goldsmith.

2.
A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it.
Shak.


word: Boutade
definition:
Boutade

Bou*tade"
(_;)
n.
[F., fr. bouter to thrust. See Butt.]
An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
[Obs.]


word: Boutefeu
definition:
Boutefeu

Boute"feu
(_;)
n.
[F.; bouter to thrust, put + feu fire.]
An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
[Obs.]

Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion.
Bacon.


word: Bouts-rimes
definition:
Bouts-rimes

Bouts`-ri*més"
(_;)
n. pl.
[F. bout end + rimé rhymed.]
Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.


word: Bouvines
definition:
Bouvines

Bouvines
prop. n.
The location where in 1214 the French under King Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages.


word: Bovate
definition:
Bovate

Bo"vate
(_;)
n.
[LL. bovata, fr. bos, bovis, ox.]
(O. Eng. Law.)
An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.


word: Bovey coal
definition:
Bovey coal

Bo"vey coal`
(_;)
(Min.)
A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.


word: Bovid
definition:
Bovid

Bo"vid
(_;)
a.
[L. bos, bovis, ox, cow.]
(Zool.)
Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.


word: Boviform
definition:
Boviform

Bo"vi*form
(_;)
a.
[L. bos, bovis, ox + -form.]
Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
[R.]


word: Bovinae
definition:
Bovinae

Bovinae
n.
a term essentially coextensive with the genus Bos, including cattle, buffalo, and sometimes kudu; -- it is not used technically.

Syn. -- subfamily Bovinae.


word: Bovini
definition:
Bovini

Bovini
n.
a term essentially coextensive with the genus Bos; -- it is not used technically.

Syn. -- tribe Bovini.


word: Bovine
definition:
Bovine

Bo"vine
(_;)
a.
[LL. bovinus, fr. L. bos, bovis, ox, cow: cf. F. bovine. See Cow.]

1.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

2.
Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.

The bovine gaze of gaping rustics.
W. Black.


word: Bow
definition:
Bow

Bow
(bou)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bowed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bowing.]
[OE. bowen, bogen, bugen, AS. būgan (generally v. i.); akin to D. buigen, OHG. biogan, G. biegen, beugen, Icel. boginn bent, beygja to bend, Sw. böja, Dan. böie, bugne, Coth. biugan; also to L. fugere to flee, Gr. _;, and Skr. bhuj to bend. √88. Cf. Fugitive.]

1.
To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness.
Milton.

The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny.
Prescott.

2.
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
Bacon.

Not to bow and bias their opinions.
Fuller.

3.
To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.

They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2 Kings ii. 15.

4.
To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;_; to crush; to subdue.

Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.
Shak.

5.
To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.


word: Bow₂
definition:
Bow

Bow
(bou)
v. i.
1.
To bend; to curve.
[Obs.]

2.
To stop.
[Archaic]

They stoop, they bow down together.
Is. xlvi. 2_;

3.
To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
Ps. xcv. 6.

4.
To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.

Admired, adored by all circling crowd,
For wheresoe'er she turned her face, they bowed.
Dryden.


word: Bow₃
definition:
Bow

Bow
(bou)
n.
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.


word: Bow₄
definition:
Bow

Bow
(b&omacr)
n.
[OE. bowe, boge, AS. boga, fr. AS. būgan to bend; akin to D. boog, G. bogen, Icel. bogi. See Bow, v. t.]

1.
Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.

I do set my bow in the cloud.
Gen. ix. 13.

2.
A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.

3.
An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.

4.
The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.

5.
(Mus.)
An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

6.
An arcograph.

7.
(Mech. & Manuf.)
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.

8.
(Naut.)
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

9.
(Saddlery)
sing. or pl.
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.

Bow bearer (O. Eng. Law), an under officer of the forest who looked after trespassers. -- Bow drill, a drill worked by a bow and string. -- Bow instrument (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which the tones are produced by the bow. -- Bow window (Arch.) See Bay window. -- To draw a long bow, to lie; to exaggerate. [Colloq.]


word: Bow₅
definition:
Bow

Bow
(b&omacr)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bowed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bowing.]
To play (music) with a bow.
v. i. To manage the bow.


word: Bow₆
definition:
Bow

Bow
(b&omacr)
n.
[Icel. b&omacrgr shoulder, bow of a ship. See Bough.]

1.
(Naut.)
The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.

2.
(Naut.)
One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.

Bow chaser (Naut.), a gun in the bow for firing while chasing another vessel. Totten.

-- Bow piece, a piece of ordnance carried at the bow of a ship. -- On the bow (Naut.), on that part of the horizon within 45° on either side of the line ahead. Totten.


word: Bowable
definition:
Bowable

Bow"a*ble
(_;)
a.
Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.
[Obs.]


word: Bow-bells
definition:
Bow-bells

Bow"-bells`
(_;)
n. pl.
The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.

People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys.
Murray's Handbook of London.


word: Bow-compass
definition:
Bow-compass

Bow"-com`pass
(_;)
n.
pl. Bow-compasses (_;).
1.
An arcograph.

2.
A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

3.
A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.


word: bowdlerisation
definition:
bowdlerisation

bowdlerisation
n.
the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.

Syn. -- bowdlerization, expurgation.


word: bowdlerization
definition:
bowdlerization

bowdlerization
n.
the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.

Syn. -- bowdlerisation, expurgation.


word: Bowdlerize
definition:
Bowdlerize

Bowd"ler*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing (?).]
[After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.

Syn. -- bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut.

It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale.
F. Harrison.


word: bowed
definition:
bowed

bowed
adj.
1.
bent over; -- used of back or head.

Syn. -- bent, inclined.

2.
(Music)
sounded by stroking with a bow; -- of a stringed musical instrument; as, bowed instruments.  Contrasted with plucked.

3.
resembling an arch.

Syn. -- arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate.

4.
same as bow-legged.

Syn. -- bandy, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged.

5.
submitting to the authority of another.

Syn. -- bowing.


word: Bowel
definition:
Bowel

Bow"el
(?)
n.
[OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.]

1.
One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Acts i. 18.

2.
pl.
Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
Shak.

3.
pl.
The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
bowels
Shak.

Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.
Fuller.

4.
pl.
Offspring.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Bowel₂
definition:
Bowel

Bow"el
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.]
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.


word: Bowenite
definition:
Bowenite

Bow"en*ite
(_;)
n.
[From G.T. Bowen, who analyzed it in 1822.]
(Min.)
A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.


word: Bower
definition:
Bower

Bo"wer
(_;)
n.
[From Bow, v. & n.]

1.
One who bows or bends.

2.
(Naut.)
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

3.
A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
[Obs.]

His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers
Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Spenser.

Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.


word: Bower₂
definition:
Bower

Bow"er
(bou"ẽr)
n.
[G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.]
One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.

Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the “Joker”) in the game. -- Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. -- Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.


word: Bower₃
definition:
Bower

Bow"er
n.
[OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. būr, fr. the root of AS. būan to dwell; akin to Icel. būr chamber, storehouse, Sw. būr cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pūr room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. √97] Cf.Boor, Byre.]

1.
Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie,
And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.
Gascoigne.

2.
A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
Shenstone.  B. Johnson.

3.
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.


word: Bower₆
definition:
Bower

Bow"er
n.
[From Bough, cf. Brancher.]
(Falconry)
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
[Obs.]


word: Bower-Barff process
definition:
Bower-Barff process

Bow"er-Barff" proc`ess
(Metal.)
A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600° F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4).


word: Bower bird
definition:
Bower bird

Bow"er bird`
(_;)
(Zool.)
An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus), allied to the starling.  The male constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects to attract females; the satin bird.

&hand_; The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having similar habits; as, the spotted bower bird (Chalmydodera maculata), and the regent bird (Sericulus melinus).


word: Bowery
definition:
Bowery

Bow"er*y
(_;)
a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.

A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
Trumbull.


word: Bowery₂
definition:
Bowery

Bow"er*y
n.
pl. Boweries (_;).
[D. bouwerij.]
A farm or plantation with its buildings.
[U. S. Hist.]

The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into “villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.”
Bancroft.


word: Bowery₃
definition:
Bowery

Bow"er*y
a.
Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.


word: Bowfin
definition:
Bowfin

Bow"fin`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.


word: Bowgrace
definition:
Bowgrace

Bow"grace`
(_;)
n.
(Naut.)
A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.


word: Bow hand
definition:
Bow hand

Bow" hand`
(_;)
1.
(Archery)
The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.
Spenser.

2.
(Mus.)
The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand.


word: Bowhead
definition:
Bowhead

Bow"head`
(_;)
n.
(Zool.)
The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.


word: Bowiea
definition:
Bowiea

Bowiea
n.
a small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.

Syn. -- genus Bowiea.


word: Bowie knife
definition:
Bowie knife

Bow"ie knife`
(_;)
A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.  Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.


word: Bowing
definition:
Bowing

Bow"ing
(_;)
n.
(Mus.)
1.
The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc.
J. W. Moore.

2.
In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.


word: Bowknot
definition:
Bowknot

Bow"knot`
(_;)
n.
A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.


word: Bowl
definition:
Bowl

Bowl
(b&omacrl)
n.
[OE. bolle, AS. bolla; akin to Icel. bolli, Dan. bolle, G. bolle, and perh. to E. boil a tumor. Cf. Boll.]

1.
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

Brought them food in bowls of basswood.
Longfellow.

2.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

3.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

4.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.


word: Bowl₂
definition:
Bowl

Bowl
(b&omacrl)
n.
[F. boule, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud. Cf. Bull an edict, Bill a writing.]

1.
A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

2.
pl.
An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
pl
The game of tenpins or bowling.
[U.S.]


word: Bowl₃
definition:
Bowl

Bowl
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bowled (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.]
1.
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
Shak.

2.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

3.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth,
And bowled to death with turnips_;
Shak.

To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.


word: Bowl₄
definition:
Bowl

Bowl
v. i.
1.
To play with bowls.

2.
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

3.
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.


word: Boulder₂
definition:
Boulder

Bowlder

{ Bowl"der, Boul"der (_;), }
n.
[Cf. Sw. bullra to roar, rattle, Dan. buldre, dial. Sw. bullersteen larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. bellow.]

1.
A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.

2.
(Geol.)
A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.

Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.


word: Bowler
definition:
Bowler

Bowl"er
(_;)
n.
One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.


word: Bowline
definition:
Bowline

Bow"line
(_;)
n.
[Cf. D. boelijn, Icel. böglïna_;, Dan. bovline; properly the line attached to the shoulder or side of the sail. See Bow (of a ship), and Line.]
(Naut.)
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.


word: Bowling
definition:
Bowling

Bowl"ing
(_;)
n.
The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.


word: Bowman
definition:
Bowman

Bow"man
(_;)
n.
pl. Bowmen (_;).
A man who uses a bow; an archer.

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen.
Jer. iv. 29.

Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian.


word: Bowne
definition:
Bowne

Bowne
(_;)
v. t.
[See Boun.]
To make ready; to prepare; to dress.
[Obs.]

We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bow net
definition:
Bow net

Bow" net`
(_;)
1.
A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.

2.
A net for catching birds.
J. H. Walsh.


word: Bowse
definition:
Bowse

Bowse
(_;)
v. i.
[See Booze, and Bouse.]

1.
To carouse; to bouse; to booze.
De Quincey.

2.
(Naut.)
To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.


word: Bowsprit
definition:
Bowsprit

Bow"sprit`
(_;)
n.
[Bow + sprit; akin to D. boegspriet; boeg bow of a ship + spriet, E. sprit, also Sw. bogspröt, G. bugspriet.]
(Naut.)
A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.


word: Bowssen
definition:
Bowssen

Bows"sen
(_;)
v. t.
To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).
[Obs.]

There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men.
 . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again.
Carew.


word: Bowstring
definition:
Bowstring

Bow"string`
(_;)
n.
1.
The string of a bow.

2.
A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.

Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made. Balfour.


word: Bowstring₂
definition:
Bowstring

Bow"string`
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bowstringed (_;) or Bowstrung (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bowstringing.]
To strangle with a bowstring.


word: Bowstringed
definition:
Bowstringed

Bow"stringed`
(_;)
p. a.
1.
Furnished with bowstring.

2.
Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.


word: Bowwow
definition:
Bowwow

Bow"wow`
(_;)
n.
An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.
a. Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.
[Jocose.]


word: Bowyer
definition:
Bowyer

Bow"yer
(_;)
n.
[From Bow, like lawyer from law.]

1.
An archer; one who uses bow.

2.
One who makes or sells bows.


word: Box
definition:
Box

Box
(b&obreve_;ks)
n.
[As. box, L. buxus, fr. Gr. _;. See Box a case.]
(Bot.)
A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (Buxus suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens.  The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.


word: Box₂
definition:
Box

Box
n.
pl. Boxes (_;)
[As. box a small case or vessel with a cover; akin to OHG. buhsa box, G. büchse; fr. L. buxus boxwood, anything made of boxwood. See Pyx, and cf. Box a tree, Bushel.]
1.
A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

2.
The quantity that a box contain.

3.
A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage.
Dorset.

The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges.
Dryden.

4.
A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks,
Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box.
J. Warton.

5.
A small country house.
box
Wilson.

Tight boxes neatly sashed.
Cowper.

6.
A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

7.
(Mach)
(a)
An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.
(b)
A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

8.
The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

9.
A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.
box
Dickens.

10.
(Baseball)
The square in which the pitcher stands.

11.
(Zool.)
A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

&hand_; Box is much used adjectively or in composition; as box lid, box maker, box circle, etc.; also with modifying substantives; as money box, letter box, bandbox, hatbox or hat box, snuff box or snuffbox.

Box beam (Arch.), a beam made of metal plates so as to have the form of a long box. -- Box car (Railroads), a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents. -- Box chronometer, a ship's chronometer, mounted in gimbals, to preserve its proper position. -- Box coat, a thick overcoat for driving; sometimes with a heavy cape to carry off the rain. -- Box coupling, a metal collar uniting the ends of shafts or other parts in machinery. -- Box crab (Zool.), a crab of the genus Calappa, which, when at rest with the legs retracted, resembles a box. -- Box drain (Arch.), a drain constructed with upright sides, and with flat top and bottom. -- Box girder (Arch.), a box beam. -- Box groove (Metal Working), a closed groove between two rolls, formed by a collar on one roll fitting between collars on another. R. W. Raymond. -- Box metal, an alloy of copper and tin, or of zinc, lead, and antimony, for the bearings of journals, etc. -- Box plait, a plait that doubles both to the right and the left. -- Box turtle or Box tortoise (Zool.), a land tortoise or turtle of the genera Cistudo and Emys; -- so named because it can withdraw entirely within its shell, which can be closed by hinged joints in the lower shell. Also, humorously, an exceedingly reticent person. Emerson. -- In a box, in a perplexity or an embarrassing position; in difficulty. (Colloq.) -- In the wrong box, out of one's place; out of one's element; awkwardly situated. (Colloq.) Ridley (1554)


word: Box₃
definition:
Box

Box
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boxed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Boxing.]

1.
To inclose in a box.

2.
To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

3.
(Arch.)
To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.


word: Box₄
definition:
Box

Box
n.
[Cf.Dan. baske to slap, bask slap, blow. Cf. Pash.]
A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

A good-humored box on the ear.
W. Irving.


word: Box₆
definition:
Box

Box
v. t.
To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.


word: Box₇
definition:
Box

Box
v. t.
[Cf.Sp. boxar, now spelt bojar.]
To boxhaul.

To box off (Naut.), to turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback. -- To box the compass (Naut.), to name the thirty-two points of the compass in their order.


word: boxed
definition:
boxed

boxed
adj.
1.
(Printing)
enclosed in or set off by a border or box; as, boxed sections of the report; boxed announcements in the newspaper.

2.
enclosed in a box.


word: Boxen
definition:
Boxen

Box"en
(b&obreve_;ks"'n)
a.
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).
[R.]

The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves.
Dryden.


word: Boxhaul
definition:
Boxhaul

Box"haul`
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boxhauled (_;).]
(Naut.)
To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).
Totten.


word: Boxing
definition:
Boxing

Box"ing
n.
1.
The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

2.
Material used in making boxes or casings.

3.
Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

4.
(Arch.)
The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.


word: Boxing₂
definition:
Boxing

Box"ing
n.
The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.
Blackstone.

Boxing glove, a large padded mitten or glove used in sparring for exercise or amusement.


word: Boxing day
definition:
Boxing day

Box"ing day`
The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night.
[Eng.]


word: Box kite
definition:
Box kite

Box kite
A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rectangular boxes, or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave kite, or cellular kite.


word: Box tail
definition:
Box tail

Box tail
(Aëronautics)
In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.


word: Boy
definition:
Boy

Boy
(_;)
n.
[Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge.]
1.
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee.
Sir W. Scott.

&hand_; Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity, or party.

2.
In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; -- considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used.
[derog.]
He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown.
Frances Macnab.

Boy bishop, a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated. -- The Old Boy, the Devil. [Slang] -- Yellow boys, guineas. [Slang, Eng.] -- Boy's love, a popular English name of Southernwood (Artemisia abrotonum); -- called also lad's love. -- Boy's play, childish amusements; anything trifling.


word: Boy₂
definition:
Boy

Boy
v. t.
To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.
Shak.


word: Boyard
definition:
Boyard

Boyar

{ Bo*yar" (_;), Bo*yard" (_;), }
n.
[Russ. boiárin'.]
A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

&hand_; English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars.


word: Boyau
definition:
Boyau

Boy"au
(_;)
n.
pl. Boyaux or Boyaus (_;).
[F. boyau gut, a long and narrow place, and (of trenches) a branch. See Bowel.]
(Fort.)
A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.


word: Boycott
definition:
Boycott

Boy"cott`
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Boycotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boycotting.]
[From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.]
To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.


word: Boycott₂
definition:
Boycott

Boy"cott
n.
The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.


word: Boyer
definition:
Boyer

Boy"er
(_;)
n.
[D. boeijer; -- so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: cf. F. boyer. See Buoy.]
(Naut.)
A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Boyhood
definition:
Boyhood

Boy"hood
(_;)
n.
[Boy + -hood.]
The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
Hood.


word: Boyish
definition:
Boyish

Boy"ish
a.
Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

A boyish, odd conceit.
Baillie.


word: Boyism
definition:
Boyism

Boy"ism
(_;)
n.
1.
Boyhood.
[Obs.]
T. Warton.

2.
The nature of a boy; childishness.
Dryden.


word: Boyne
definition:
Boyne

Boyne
n.
a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690, where William III of England defeated the deposed James II and so ended Stuart Catholicism in England.

Syn. -- battle of Boyne, battle of the Boyne.


word: boys-and-girls
definition:
boys-and-girls

boys-and-girls
n.
(Bot.)
a Eurafrican annual (Mercurialis annua) naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic.

Syn. -- herb mercury, herbs mercury.


word: Boy scout
definition:
Boy scout

Boy scout
Orig., a member of the “Boy Scouts,” an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc.  Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In “The Boy Scouts of America” the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.


word: boysenberry
definition:
boysenberry

boysenberry
n.
1.
a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor.

2.
a large raspberry-flavored bramble fruit; a cross between blackberries and raspberries.


word: Boza
definition:
Boza

Bo"za
(_;)
n.
[See Bosa.]
An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.
[Written also bosa, bozah, bouza.]


word: Brabble
definition:
Brabble

Brab"ble
(_;)
v. i.
[D. brabbelen to talk confusedly. √95. Cf. Blab, Babble.]
To clamor; to contest noisily.
[R.]


word: Brabble₂
definition:
Brabble

Brab"ble
n.
A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.

This petty brabble will undo us all.
Shak.


word: Braccate
definition:
Braccate

Brac"cate
(_;)
a.
[L. bracatus wearing breeches, fr. bracae breeches.]
(Zool.)
Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.


word: Brace
definition:
Brace

Brace
(_;)
n.
[OF. brace, brasse, the two arms, embrace, fathom, F. brasse fathom, fr. L. bracchia the arms (stretched out), pl. of bracchium arm; cf. Gr. _;.]
1.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

2.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.

The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
Derham.

3.
The state of being braced or tight; tension.

The laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension.
Holder.

4.
(Arch. & Engin.)
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

5.
(Print.)
A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.

6.
(Naut.)
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

7.
(Mech.)
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.

8.
A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
brace
Shak.

He is said to have shot . . . fifty brace of pheasants.
Addison.

A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.
Fuller.

But you, my brace of lords.
Shak.

9.
pl.
Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.

I embroidered for you a beautiful pair of braces.
Thackeray.

10.
Harness; warlike preparation.
[Obs.]

For that it stands not in such warlike brace.
Shak.

11.
Armor for the arm; vantbrace.

12.
(Mining)
The mouth of a shaft.
[Cornwall]

Angle brace. See under Angle.


word: Brace₂
definition:
Brace

Brace
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Braced (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bracing.]
1.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.

2.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.

And welcome war to brace her drums.
Campbell.

3.
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet.
Locke.

Some who spurs had first braced on.
Sir W. Scott.

4.
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.

A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced.
Fairfax.

5.
(Naut.)
To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.

To brace about (Naut.), to turn (a yard) round for the contrary tack. -- To brace a yard (Naut.), to move it horizontally by means of a brace. -- To brace in (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by hauling in the weather brace. -- To brace one's self, to call up one's energies. “He braced himself for an effort which he was little able to make.” J. D. Forbes. -- To brace to (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to assist in tacking. -- To brace up (Naut.), to bring (a yard) nearer the direction of the keel by hauling in the lee brace. -- To brace up sharp (Naut.), to turn (a yard) as far forward as the rigging will permit.


word: Bracelet
definition:
Bracelet

Brace"let
(_;)
n.
[F. bracelet, dim. of OF. bracel armlet, prop. little arm, dim. of bras arm, fr. L. bracchium. See Brace,n.]
1.
An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

2.
A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
Johnson.


word: Bracer
definition:
Bracer

Bra"cer
(_;)
n.
1.
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.

2.
A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
Chaucer.

3.
A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
Johnson.


word: Brach
definition:
Brach

Brach
(brăk)
n.
[OE.  brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare to smell.]
A bitch of the hound kind.
Shak.


word: Brachelytra
definition:
Brachelytra

Brach*el"y*tra
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. (_;) short + _; a covering.]
(Zool.)
A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.


word: brache
definition:
brache

brach

brach, brache
(brăk or brăch)
n.
[OE.  brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; related to Sw. brack a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare to smell.]
A bitch of the hound kind.  See also bratchet.
Shak.
[Also spelled bratch when pronounced (brăch).]

A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer.
Burton (Anatomy of Melancholy).


word: Brachial
definition:
Brachial

Brach"i*al
(_;)
(_;)
a.
[L. brachialis (bracch-), from bracchium (bracch-) arm: cf. F. brachial.]
1.
(Anat.)
Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

2.
Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.


word: Brachiata
definition:
Brachiata

Brach`i*a"ta
(_;)
n. pl.
[See Brachiate.]
(Zool.)
A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.


word: Brachiate
definition:
Brachiate

Brach"i*ate
(_;)
a.
[L. brachiatus (bracch-) with boughs or branches like arms, from brackium (bracch-) arm.]
(Bot.)
Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.


word: Brachioganoidei
definition:
Brachioganoidei

Brach`i*o*ga*noid"e*i
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., from L. brachium (bracch-) arm + NL. ganoidei.]
(Zool.)
An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.


word: Brachiolaria
definition:
Brachiolaria

Brach`i*o*la"ri*a
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L.  brachiolum (bracch-), dim. of brachium (bracch-) arm.]
(Zool.)
A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.


word: Brachiopod
definition:
Brachiopod

Brach"i*o*pod
(_;)
n.
[Cf.F. brachiopode.]
(Zool.)
One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.


word: Brachiopoda
definition:
Brachiopoda

Brach`i*op"o*da
(_;)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _; arm + -poda.]
(Zool.)
A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

&hand_; Within the shell is a pair of “arms,” often long and spirally coiled, bearing rows of ciliated tentacles by which a current of water is made to flow into the mantle cavity, bringing the microscopic food to the mouth between the bases of the arms. The shell is both opened and closed by special muscles. They form two orders; Lyopoma, in which the shell is thin, and without a distinct hinge, as in Lingula; and Arthropoma, in which the firm calcareous shell has a regular hinge, as in Rhynchonella. See Arthropomata.


word: Brachium
definition:
Brachium

Brach"i*um
(_;)
n.
pl. Bracchia (_;).
[L. brachium or bracchium, arm.]
(Anat.)
The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.


word: Brachycatalectic
definition:
Brachycatalectic

Brach`y*cat`a*lec"tic
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _;; brachy`s short + _; to leave off; cf. _; incomplete.]
(Gr. & Last. Pros.)
A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.


word: Brachycephalous
definition:
Brachycephalous

Brachycephalic

{ Brach`y*ce*phal"ic (_;), Brach`y*ceph"a*lous (_;) }
a.
[Gr. brachy`s short + _; head.]
(Anat.)
Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.


word: Brachycephalism
definition:
Brachycephalism

Brachycephaly

{ Brach`y*ceph"a*ly (_;), Brach`y*ceph"a*lism (_;) }
n.
[Cf. F. Brachycéphalie]
(Anat.)
The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.


word: Brachyceral
definition:
Brachyceral

Bra*chyc"er*al
(_;)
a.
[Gr. brachy`s short + ke`ras horn.]
(Zool.)
Having short antennæ, as certain insects.


word: Brachydiagonal
definition:
Brachydiagonal

Brach`y*di*ag"o*nal
(_;)
a.
[Gr. brachy`s short + E. diagonal.]
Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.

Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.


word: Brachydome
definition:
Brachydome

Brach`y*dome
(_;)
n.
[Gr. brachy`s short + E. dome.]
(Crystallog.)
A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.


word: Brachygrapher
definition:
Brachygrapher

Bra*chyg"ra*pher
(_;)
n.
A writer in short hand; a stenographer.

He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon.
Gayton.


word: Brachygraphy
definition:
Brachygraphy

Bra*chyg"ra*phy
(_;)
n.
[Gr. brachy`s short + -graphy: cf. F. brachygraphie.]
Stenography.
B. Jonson.


word: Brachylogy
definition:
Brachylogy

Bra*chyl"o*gy
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; : brachy`s short + _; discourse: cf. F. brachylogie.]
(Rhet.)
Conciseness of expression; brevity.


word: Brachypinacoid
definition:
Brachypinacoid

Brach`y*pin"a*coid
(_;)
n.
[Gr. brachy`s short + E. pinacoid.]
(Crytallog.)
A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.


word: Brachyptera
definition:
Brachyptera

Bra*chyp"te*ra
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; short-winged; brachy`s short + _; feather, wing.]
(Zool.)
A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.


word: Brachypteres
definition:
Brachypteres

Bra*chyp"te*res
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL. See Brachyptera. ]
(Zool.)
A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.


word: Brachystochrone
definition:
Brachystochrone

Bra*chys"to*chrone
(_;)
n.
[Incorrect for brachistochrone, fr. Gr. bra`chistos shortest (superl. of brachy`s short) + _; time : cf. F. brachistochrone. ]
(Math.)
A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.


word: Brachytypous
definition:
Brachytypous

Brach"y*ty`pous
(_;)
a.
[Gr. brachy`s short + _; stamp, form.]
(Min.)
Of a short form.


word: Brachyura
definition:
Brachyura

Brach`y*u"ra
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. brachy`s short + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.


word: Brachyurous
definition:
Brachyurous

Brachyural

{ Brach`y*u"ral (_;), Brach`y*u"rous (_;) }
a.
[Cf. F. brachyure.]
(Zool.)
Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the Brachyura.


word: Bracing
definition:
Bracing

Bra"cing
(_;)
a.
Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.


word: Bracing₂
definition:
Bracing

Bra"cing
(_;)
n.
1.
The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

2.
(Engin.)
Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.


word: Brack
definition:
Brack

Brack
(brăk)
n.
[Cf.D. braak, Dan. bræk, a breaking, Sw. & Icel. brak a crackling, creaking. Cf. Breach.]
An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.

Stain or brack in her sweet reputation.
J. Fletcher.


word: Brack₂
definition:
Brack

Brack
n.
[D. brak, adj., salt; cf. LG. wrak refuse, G. brack.]
Salt or brackish water.
[Obs.]
Drayton.


word: Bracken
definition:
Bracken

Brack"en
(_;)
n.
[OE. braken, AS. bracce. See 2d Brake, n.]
A brake or fern.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bracket
definition:
Bracket

Brack"et
(_;)
n.
[Cf. OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette, Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim. fr. L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop, support; of unknown origin. Cf. Breeches.]

1.
(Arch.)
An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

&hand_; This is the more general word. See Brace, Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut.

2.
(Engin. & Mech.)
A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

3.
(Naut.)
A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

4.
(Mil.)
The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

5.
(Print.)
One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

6.
A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.

7.
(Gunnery)
A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.

Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.


word: Bracket₂
definition:
Bracket

Brack"et
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Bracketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bracketing]
1.
To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

2.
(Gunnery)
To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).


word: Brackish
definition:
Brackish

Brack"ish
(_;)
a.
[See Brack salt water.]
Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be.
Byron.


word: Bract
definition:
Bract

Bract
(_;)
n.
[See Bractea.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
(b)
Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

&hand_; Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants. The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts.


word: Bracteate
definition:
Bracteate

Brac"te*ate
(_;)
a.
[Cf. L. bracteatus covered with gold plate.]
(Bot.)
Having a bract or bracts.


word: Bracteole
definition:
Bracteole

Brac"te*ole
(_;)
n.
[L. bracteola, dim. of bractea. See Bractea.]
(Bot.)
Same as Bractlet.


word: Bractlet
definition:
Bractlet

Bract"let
(_;)
n.
[Bract + -let]
(Bot.)
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
Gray.


word: Brad
definition:
Brad

Brad
(_;)
n.
[Cf. OE. brod, Dan. braad prick, sting, brodde ice spur, frost nail, Sw. brodd frost nail, Icel. broddr any pointed piece of iron or stell; akin to AS. brord point, spire of grass, and perh. to E. bristle. See Bristle, n.]
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.


word: Brad awl
definition:
Brad awl

Brad" awl`
(_;)
A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc.
Weale.


word: bradykinin
definition:
bradykinin

bra`dy*ki"nin
n.
a hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability.  It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process.  It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.
MI11

Syn. -- kallidin I; callidin I; kallidin-9.


word: Bradypodidae
definition:
Bradypodidae

Bradypodidae
n.
a natural family comprising the true sloths.

Syn. -- family Bradypodidae.


word: Bradypus
definition:
Bradypus

Bradypus
n.
type genus of the Bradypodidae, comprising the three-toed sloths.

Syn. -- genus Bradypus.


word: Brag
definition:
Brag

Brag
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Bragged (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bragging.]
[OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F. braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the same root as E. break; properly then, to make a noise, boast. _;95.]
To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
Shak.


word: Brag₃
definition:
Brag

Brag
n.
1.
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.

Cæsar . . . made not here his brag
Of “came,” and “saw,” and “overcame.”
Shak.

2.
The thing which is boasted of.

Beauty is Nature's brag.
Milton.

3.
A game at cards similar to bluff.
Chesterfield.


word: Brag₄
definition:
Brag

Brag
(_;)
a.
[See Brag, v. i.]
Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
[Archaic]

A brag young fellow.
B. Jonson.


word: Braggadocio
definition:
Braggadocio

Brag`ga*do"cio
(_;)
n.
[From Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser's “Faërie Queene.”]
1.
A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
Dryden.

2.
Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.


word: Braggart
definition:
Braggart

Brag"gart
(_;)
n.
[OF. bragard flaunting, vain, bragging. See Brag, v. i.]
A boaster.

O, I could play the woman with mine eyes,
 And braggart with my tongue.
Shak.


word: Bragget
definition:
Bragget

Brag"get
(_;)
n.
[OE. braket, bragot, fr. W. bragawd, bragod, fr. brag malt.]
A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Brahma
definition:
Brahma

Brah"ma
(_;)
n.
[See Brahman.]
1.
(Hindu Myth.)
The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindu gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

&hand_; According to the Hindu religious books, Brahma (with the final a short), or Brahm, is the Divine Essence, the One First Cause, the All in All, while the personal gods, Brahmá (with the final a long), Vishnu, and Siva, are emanations or manifestations of Brahma the Divine Essence.

2.
(Zool.)
A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.


word: Brahmin
definition:
Brahmin

Brahman

{ Brah"man (_;), Brah"min (_;), }
n.
pl. Brahmans, Brahmins.
[Skr. Brāhmana (cf. Brahman worship, holiness; the God Brahma, also Brahman): cf. F. Brahmane, Brachmane, Bramine, L. Brachmanae, -manes, -mani, pl., Gr. _;, pl.]
1.
A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.

Brahman bull (Zool.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindus.

2.
a person from an old, respected, and usually wealthy family who has considerable social or political influence; -- a term used especially in New England; as, a Boston brahmin.


word: ical₂
definition:
ical

Brahminic

-ical

Brahmanic

{ Brah*man"ic (_;), -ic*al (_;), Brah*min"ic (_;), *ic*al (_;),}
a.
Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.


word: Brahminism
definition:
Brahminism

Brahmanism

{ Brah"man*ism (_;), Brah"min*ism (_;), }
n.
The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.


word: Brahminist
definition:
Brahminist

Brahmanist

{ Brah"man*ist (_;), Brah"min*ist (_;), }
n.
An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.


word: Brahmo-somaj
definition:
Brahmo-somaj

Brah`mo-so*maj"
(_;)
n.
[Bengalese, a worshiping assembly.]
A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindus.
[Written also Brama-samaj.]


word: Brahms
definition:
Brahms

Brahms
n.
1.
a famous German composer, b. 1833, d. 1897.

Syn. -- Johannes Brahms.

2.
the music composed by Brahms; as, the program consisted mostly of Brahms.


word: Braid
definition:
Braid

Braid
(brād)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Braided; p. pr. & vb. n. Braiding.]
[OE. braiden, breiden, to pull, reach, braid, AS. bregdan to move to and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. bregða, D. breiden to knit, OS. bregdan to weave, OHG. brettan to brandish. Cf. Broid.]

1.
To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.

Braid your locks with rosy twine.
Milton.

2.
To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

3.
To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.
Shak.


word: Braid₂
definition:
Braid

Braid
(_;)
n.
1.
A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.

A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together.
Scott.

2.
A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.


word: Braid₃
definition:
Braid

Braid
n.
[Cf.Icel. breg_;a to move quickly.]

1.
A quick motion; a start.
[Obs.]
Sackville.

2.
A fancy; freak; caprice.
[Obs.]
R. Hyrde.


word: Braid₅
definition:
Braid

Braid
a.
[AS. bræd, bred, deceit; akin to Icel. bragð trick, AS. bredan, bregdan, to braid, knit, (hence) to knit a net, to draw into a net, i. e., to deceive. See Braid, v. t.]
Deceitful.
[Obs.]

Since Frenchmen are so braid,
Marry that will, I live and die a maid.
Shak.


word: braided
definition:
braided

braided
adj.
1.
adorned with braid; as, his braided collar.

2.
formed into a braid or braids; as, braided hair.


word: Braiding
definition:
Braiding

Braid"ing
n.
1.
The act of making or using braids.

2.
Braids, collectively; trimming.

A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding.
Thackeray.


word: Brail
definition:
Brail

Brail
(_;)
n.
[OE. brayle furling rope, OF. braiol a band placed around the breeches, fr.F. braies, pl., breeches, fr. L.  braca, bracae, breeches, a Gallic word; cf. Arm. bragez.  Cf. Breeches.]

1.
(Falconry)
A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

2.
pl.
(Naut.)
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

3.
A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.


word: Braille
definition:
Braille

Braille
(?)
n.
A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.


word: Brain
definition:
Brain

Brain
(brān)
n.
[OE. brain, brein, AS. bragen, brægen; akin to LG. brägen, bregen, D. brein, and perh. to Gr. bre`gma, brechmo`s, the upper part of head, if β = φ. √95.]

1.
(Anat.)
The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

&hand_; In the brain of man the cerebral lobes, or largest part of the forebrain, are enormously developed so as to overhang the cerebellum, the great lobe of the hindbrain, and completely cover the lobes of the midbrain. The surface of the cerebrum is divided into irregular ridges, or convolutions, separated by grooves (the so-called fissures and sulci), and the two hemispheres are connected at the bottom of the longitudinal fissure by a great transverse band of nervous matter, the corpus callosum, while the two halves of the cerebellum are connected on the under side of the brain by the bridge, or pons Varolii.

2.
(Zool.)
The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.

3.
The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding; as, use your brains.
brain
Sir W. Scott.

&hand_; In this sense, often used in the plural.

4.
The affections; fancy; imagination.
[R.]
Shak.

5.
a very intelligent person.
[informal]

6.
the controlling electronic mechanism for a robot, guided missile, computer, or other device exhibiting some degree of self-regulation.
[informal]

To have on the brain, to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. [Low] -- no-brainer a decision requiring little or no thought; an obvious choice.
[slang]

Brain box or Brain case, the bony or cartilaginous case inclosing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zool.), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Brain fever (Med.), fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever. -- Brain sand, calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.


word: Brain₂
definition:
Brain

Brain
(brān)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Brained (brānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Braining.]

1.
To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains.
Hence, Fig.:
To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

There thou mayst brain him.
Shak.

It was the swift celerity of the death . . . 
That brained my purpose.
Shak.

2.
To conceive; to understand.
[Obs.]

'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
Tongue, and brain not.
Shak.


word: braincase
definition:
braincase

brain"case
n.
the part of the skull that encloses the brain.

Syn. -- cranium, brainpan.


word: brainchild
definition:
brainchild

brainchild
n.
a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the project was the brainchild of the director.

Syn. -- inspiration.


word: Brainpan
definition:
Brainpan

Brain"pan`
(_;)
n.
[Brain + pan.]
The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.


word: brainpower
definition:
brainpower

brainpower
n.
mental ability; intellectual acuity.

Syn. -- brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit.


word: Brainsick
definition:
Brainsick

Brain"sick`
(_;)
a.
Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
Brain"sick*ness, n.


word: brainstorm
definition:
brainstorm

brain"storm`
n.
the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation; a sudden brilliant insight.

Syn. -- insight, brainwave.


word: brainstorm₂
definition:
brainstorm

brain"storm`
v. t. & i.
to try to solve a problem by discussing it exhaustively in an intense group meeting encouraging uninhibited and spontaneous contributions from all members.

Syn. -- practice brainstorming.


word: brainwash
definition:
brainwash

brainwash
v.
[imp. & p. p. brainwashed; p. pr. & vb. n. brainwashing]
1.
to persuade completely; as, the propaganda brainwashed many people.

2.
to to indoctrinate forcibly or by means of torture, or by constant psychological pressure.

Syn. -- submit to brainwashing.


word: brainwashed
definition:
brainwashed

brainwashed
adj.
subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones.
brainwashed prisoners of war
captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers
unbrainwashed


word: brainwashing
definition:
brainwashing

brainwashing
n.
the process of forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs.


word: brainwave
definition:
brainwave

brain"wave`
(brān"wāv)
n.
1.
rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the brain.

Syn. -- brain wave, cortical potential.

2.
the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation.

Syn. -- insight, brainstorm.


word: Brainy
definition:
Brainy

Brain"y
(brān"&ybreve_;)
a.
1.
Having an active or vigorous mind.
[Colloq.]

2.
highly intelligent.


word: Braize
definition:
Braize

Braise

{ Braise, Braize  }
(_;)
n.
[So called from its iridescent colors.]
(Zool.)
A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
[Also written brazier.]


word: Braize₂
definition:
Braize

Braise

{ Braise, Braize  }
n.
[F.]
1.
Charcoal powder; breeze.

2.
(Cookery)
Braised meat.


word: Braise
definition:
Braise

Braise
v. t.
[F. braiser, fr. braise coals.]
(Cookery)
To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below.
Mrs. Henderson.


word: Brake₂
definition:
Brake

Brake
n.
[OE. brake fern; cf. AS. bracce fern, LG.  brake willow bush, Da. bregne fern, G. brach fallow; prob. orig. the growth on rough, broken ground, fr. the root of E. break. See Break, v. t., cf. Bracken, and 2d Brake, n.]

1.
(Bot.)
A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the Pteris aquilina, common in almost all countries.  It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches.  Less properly: Any fern.

2.
A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.
Shak.

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone.
Sir W. Scott.

Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.


word: Brake₃
definition:
Brake

Brake
(brāk)
n.
[OE. brake; cf. LG. brake an instrument for breaking flax, G. breche, fr. the root of E. break. See Break, v. t., and cf. Breach.]
1.
An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

2.
An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

3.
A baker's kneading though.
Johnson.

4.
A sharp bit or snaffle.

Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit.
Gascoigne.

5.
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.
J. Brende.

6.
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

7.
(Mil.)
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

8.
(Agric.)
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

9.
A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

10.
(Engin.)
An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

11.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

12.
An ancient instrument of torture.
Holinshed.

Air brake. See Air brake, in the Vocabulary. -- Brake beam or Brake bar, the beam that connects the brake blocks of opposite wheels. -- Brake block. (a) The part of a brake holding the brake shoe. (b) A brake shoe. -- Brake shoe or Brake rubber, the part of a brake against which the wheel rubs. -- Brake wheel, a wheel on the platform or top of a car by which brakes are operated. -- Continuous brake . See under Continuous.


word: Brakeman
definition:
Brakeman

Brake"man
(brāk"man)
n.
pl. Brakemen (brāk"men).

1.
(Railroads)
A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

2.
(Mining)
The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.


word: brakes
definition:
brakes

brakes
n.
the combination of interacting parts that work to slow a moving vehicle.

Syn. -- brake system.


word: Braky
definition:
Braky

Brak"y
(brāk"&ybreve_;)
a.
Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

In the woods and braky glens.
W. Browne.


word: Bramah press
definition:
Bramah press

Bra"mah press`
(_;)
A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.


word: Bramble
definition:
Bramble

Bram"ble
(brăm"b'l)
n.
[OE. brembil, AS. brēmel, brēmbel, br&aemacr_;mbel (akin to OHG. brāmal), fr. the same root as E. broom, As. br&omacrm. See Broom.]
1.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes.
Shak.

2.
(Zool.)
The brambling or bramble finch.


word: Bramble bush
definition:
Bramble bush

Bram"ble bush`
(b&usdot_;sh`)
(Bot.)
The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.

He jumped into a bramble bush
And scratched out both his eyes.
Mother Goose.


word: Brambled
definition:
Brambled

Bram"bled
(_;)
a.
Overgrown with brambles.

Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor.
T. Warton.


word: Brambling
definition:
Brambling

Bram"bling
(_;)
n.
[OE. bramline. See Bramble, n.]
(Zool.)
The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.


word: Bran
definition:
Bran

Bran
(_;)
n.
[OE. bren, bran, OF. bren, F. bran, from Celtic; cf. Armor. brenn, Ir. bran, bran, chaff.]
1.
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

2.
(Zool.)
The European carrion crow.


word: Branch
definition:
Branch

Branch
(_;)
n.
pl. Branches (_;).
[OE. braunche, F. branche, fr. LL. branca claw of a bird or beast of prey; cf. Armor. brank branch, bough.]
1.
(Bot.)
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

2.
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up.
W. Irving.

3.
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
Branches
Prescott.

It is a branch and parcel of mine oath.
Shak.

4.
(Geom.)
One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

5.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock.
Carew.

6.
(Naut.)
A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb. -- Branch herring. See Alewife. -- Root and branch , totally, wholly.


word: Branch₂
definition:
Branch

Branch
(_;)
a.
Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.


word: Branch₃
definition:
Branch

Branch
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Branched (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Branching.]
1.
To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

2.
To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge. -- To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc.

To branch out into a long disputation.
Spectator.


word: Branch₄
definition:
Branch

Branch
v. t.
1.
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

2.
To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

The train whereof loose far behind her strayed,
Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought.
Spenser.


word: branched
definition:
branched

branched
adj.
1.
resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; as, long branched hairs on its legs, on which pollen collects.

Syn. -- bifurcate, biramous, forked, pronged, prongy.

2.
same as branching, a..


word: Brancher
definition:
Brancher

Branch"er
(_;)
n.
1.
That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

2.
(Falconry)
A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.


word: Branchia
definition:
Branchia

Bran"chi*a
(_;)
n.
pl. Branchiæ (_;).
[L., fr. Gr. _;, pl. of _;.]
(Anat.)
A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.


word: Branchial
definition:
Branchial

Bran"chi*al
(_;)
a.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to branchiæ or gills.

Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial arches through which water passes.


word: Branchiferous
definition:
Branchiferous

Bran*chif"er*ous
(_;)
a.
(Anat.)
Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.


word: Branching
definition:
Branching

Branch"ing
a.
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

Shaded with branching palm.
Milton.


word: Branching₂
definition:
Branching

Branch"ing
n.
The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.

The sciences, with their numerous branchings.
L. Watts.


word: Branchiogastropoda
definition:
Branchiogastropoda

Bran`chi*o*gas*trop"o*da
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _; gill + E. gastropoda.]
(Zool.)
Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.


word: Branchiomerism
definition:
Branchiomerism

Bran`chi*om"er*ism
(_;)
n.
[Gr. _; gill + -mere.]
(Anat.)
The state of being made up of branchiate segments.
R. Wiedersheim.


word: Branchiopoda
definition:
Branchiopoda

Bran"chi*o*poda
(_;)
n. pl.
[Gr. _; gill + -poda: cf. F. branchiopode.]
(Zool.)
An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.


word: Branchiostegal
definition:
Branchiostegal

Bran`chi*os"te*gal
(_;)
a.
[Gr. _; gill + _; to cover: cf. F. branchiostège.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
n. (Anat.) A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

&hand_; This term was formerly applied to a group of fishes having boneless branchiæ. But the arrangement was artificial, and has been rejected.


word: Branchiostege
definition:
Branchiostege

Bran`chi*os"tege
(_;)
(Anat.)
The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Branchiostoma
definition:
Branchiostoma

Bran`chi*os"to*ma
(_;)
n.
[NL., fr., Gr. _; gill + _; mouth.]
(Zool.)
The lancelet. See Amphioxus.


word: Branchiura
definition:
Branchiura

Bran"chi*u"ra
(_;)
n. pl.
[NL., fr., Gr. _; gill + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).


word: Branchless
definition:
Branchless

Branch"less
(_;)
a.
Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.


word: Branch pilot
definition:
Branch pilot

Branch" pi`lot
(_;)
A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.


word: Branchy
definition:
Branchy

Branch"y
(_;)
a.
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom.
J. Scott.


word: Brand
definition:
Brand

Brand
(_;)
n.
[OE. brand, brond, AS. brand brond brand, sword, from byrnan, beornan, to burn; akin to D., Dan., Sw., & G. brand brand, Icel. brandr a brand, blade of a sword. √32.  See Burn, v. t., and cf. Brandish.]
1.
A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
Palfrey.

2.
A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
[Poetic]
Tennyson.

Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand.
Milton.

3.
A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

4.
A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.

The brand of private vice.
Channing.

5.
An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

6.
(Bot.)
Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniæi.


word: Brand₂
definition:
Brand

Brand
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Branded; p. pr. & vb. n. Branding.]
1.
To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).

2.
To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.

3.
Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.

The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy.
Prescott.

There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity.
South.

4.
To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

As if it were branded on my mind.
Geo. Eliot.


word: Brandenburg
definition:
Brandenburg

Bran"den*burg
(?)
n.
[So named after Brandenburg, a province and a town of Prussia.]
A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.

He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs.
Smollett.


word: Brander
definition:
Brander

Brand"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.

2.
A gridiron.
[Scot.]


word: Brand goose
definition:
Brand goose

Brand" goose`
(_;)
[Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandgås. Cf. Brant.]
(Zool.)
A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.


word: Brandied
definition:
Brandied

Bran"died
(_;)
a.
Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.


word: Brand iron
definition:
Brand iron

Brand" i`ron
1.
A branding iron.

2.
A trivet to set a pot on.
Huloet.

3.
The horizontal bar of an andiron.


word: Brandish
definition:
Brandish

Bran"dish
(_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Brandished (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Brandishing.]
[OE. braundisen, F. brandir, fr. brand a sword, fr. OHG. brant brand. See Brand, n.]
1.
To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.

The quivering lance which he brandished bright.
Drake.

2.
To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.


word: Brandlin
definition:
Brandlin

Brandling

{ Brand"ling (_;), Brand"lin (_;) }
n.
(Zool.)
Same as Branlin, fish and worm.


word: Brand-new
definition:
Brand-new

Brand"-new"
(_;)
a.
[See Brand, and cf. Brannew.]
Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.


word: Brand spore
definition:
Brand spore

Brand" spore`
(_;)
(Bot.)
One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.


word: Brandy
definition:
Brandy

Bran"dy
(_;)
n.
pl. Brandies (_;).
[From older brandywine, brandwine, fr. D. brandewijn, fr. p. p. of branden to burn, distill + wijn wine, akin to G. branntwein. See Brand.]
A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.

Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.


word: Brangle
definition:
Brangle

Bran"gle
(_;)
n.
[Prov. E. brangled confused, entangled, Scot. brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused with brawl. √95.> ]
A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
[R.]

A brangle between him and his neighbor.
Swift.


word: Brangle₂
definition:
Brangle

Bran"gle
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Brangled (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Brangling (_;).]
To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.
[R.]


word: Brank
definition:
Brank

Brank
(_;)
n.
[Prov. of Celtic origin; cf. L. brance, brace, the Gallic name of a particularly white kind of corn.]
Buckwheat.
[Local, Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Branks
definition:
Branks

Brank

{ Brank, Branks, }
n.
[Cf. Gael. brangus, brangas, a sort of pillory, Ir. brancas halter, or D. pranger fetter.]
1.
A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Jamieson.

2.
A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.


word: Brank₂
definition:
Brank

Brank
v. i.
1.
To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

2.
To prance; to caper.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.


word: Brankursine
definition:
Brankursine

Brank"ur*sine
(_;)
n.
[F. branc-ursine, branch-ursine, fr. LL. branca claw + L. ursinus belonging to a bear (fr. ursus bear), i. e., bear's claw, because its leaves resemble the claws of a bear. Cf. Branch.]
(Bot.)
Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.


word: Branlin
definition:
Branlin

Bran"lin
(_;)
n.
[Scot. branlie fr. brand.]
(Zool.)
A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.


word: Branlin₂
definition:
Branlin

Bran"lin
n.
[See Brand.]
A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh-water fish; -- so called from its red color.


word: Brant
definition:
Brant

Brant
(brănt)
n.
[Cf.Brand goose, Brent, Brenicle.]
(Zool.)
A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.


word: Brantail
definition:
Brantail

Bran"tail`
(brăn"tāl`)
n.
(Zool.)
The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.


word: Brant-fox
definition:
Brant-fox

Brant"-fox`
(_;)
n.
[For brand-fox; cf. G. brandfuchs, Sw. bradräf. So called from its yellowish brown and somewhat black color. See Brand.]
(Zool.)
A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (Vulpes vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.


word: Brasenia
definition:
Brasenia

Brasenia
n.
a magnoliid genus; a genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as the most primitive of extant angiosperms; alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.

Syn. -- genus Brasenia.


word: Brash
definition:
Brash

Brash
(brăsh)
a.
[Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.]
Hasty in temper; impetuous.
Grose.


word: Brash₂
definition:
Brash

Brash
a.
[Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
[Colloq., U. S.]
Bartlett.


word: Brash₃
definition:
Brash

Brash
n.
[See Brash brittle.]
1.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

2.
Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

3.
(Geol.)
Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
Lyell.

4.
Broken fragments of ice.
Kane.

Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.


word: Brashy
definition:
Brashy

Brash"y
(?)
a.
1.
Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

Our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered.
F. T. Bullen.

2.
Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers.


word: Brasier
definition:
Brasier

Brazier

{ Bra"sier, Bra"zier  }
(_;)
n.
[OE. brasiere, F. braise live coals. See Brass.]
An artificer who works in brass.
Franklin.


word: Brasier₂
definition:
Brasier

Brazier

{ Bra"sier, Bra"zier  }
n.
[F. brasier, braisíer, fr. braise live coals. See Brass.]
A large metal pan for holding burning coals or charcoal; it is used to warm people who must stay outside for long times.


word: Brasilia
definition:
Brasilia

Brasilia
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Brazil, built on the central plateau.  Population (2000) = 1,800,000.

Syn. -- Brazilian capital.


word: brasilein
definition:
brasilein

brasilin

bras"i*lin
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. brésiline. See 2d Brazil.]
(Chem.)
A substance, C16H14O5, extracted from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in (_;), C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.


word: Brasque
definition:
Brasque

Brasque
(?)
n.
[F.]
(Metal.)
A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.


word: Brass
definition:
Brass

Brass
(_;)
n.
pl. Brasses (_;).
[OE. bras, bres, AS. bræs; akin to Icel. bras cement, solder, brasa to harden by fire, and to E. braze, brazen. Cf. 1st & 2d Braze.]
1.
An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.

2.
(Mach.)
A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.

3.
Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
[Obs.]

Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey.
Matt. x. 9.

4.
Impudence; a brazen face.
[Colloq.]

5.
pl.
Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.

The very scullion who cleans the brasses.
Hopkinson.

6.
A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

7.
pl.
(Mining)
Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

&hand_; The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a translation for copper or some kind of bronze.

&hand_; Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry.

Brass band (Mus.), a band of musicians who play upon wind instruments made of brass, as trumpets, cornets, etc. -- Brass foil, Brass leaf, brass made into very thin sheets; -- called also Dutch gold.


word: Brassage
definition:
Brassage

Bras"sage
(_;)
n.
[F.]
A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.


word: Brassart
definition:
Brassart

Bras"sart
(_;)
n.
[F. brassard, fr. bras arm. See Brace, n.]
Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.


word: brassavola
definition:
brassavola

brassavola
n.
any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7.


word: brass-bound
definition:
brass-bound

brassbound

brassbound, brass-bound
adj.
1.
inflexibly entrenched; as, brassbound traditions.

Syn. -- ironclad, unchangeable.

2.
having trim or fittings of brass; as, a brassbound campaign chest; the heavy brass-bound door.


word: Brasse
definition:
Brasse

Brasse
(_;)
n.
[Perh. a transposition of barse; but cf. LG. brasse the bream, G. brassen Cf. Bream.]
(Zool.)
A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.


word: Brassia
definition:
Brassia

Brassia
n.
a genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips; the spider orchids.

Syn. -- genus Brassia.


word: Brassica
definition:
Brassica

Bras"si*ca
(_;)
prop. n.
[L., cabbage.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (Brassica campestris); the common turnip (Brassica rapa); the rape or coleseed (Brassica napus), etc.


word: Brassicaceae
definition:
Brassicaceae

Brassicaceae
n.
a natural family of plants with four-petaled flowers.

Syn. -- Cruciferae, family Cruciferae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family.


word: Brassicaceous
definition:
Brassicaceous

Bras`si*ca"ceous
(_;)
a.
[L. brassica cabbage.]
(Bot.)
Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.


word: brassie
definition:
brassie

brassie
n.
formerly a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon.


word: Brassiere
definition:
Brassiere

Brassiere

Bras`siere" Bras`sière"
(brȧ*zēr")
n.
[F.]
A form of woman's undergarment, often stiffened with wire or whalebones, or the like, and worn to cover and support the breasts; -- also called bra.  It usually has straps which support it from the shoulders, but strapless variants are also made.

Syn. -- bra, bandeau.


word: brasslike
definition:
brasslike

brasslike
adj.
1.
resembling the sound of a brass instrument.

Syn. -- brassy.

2.
having an appearance resembling that of brass.

Syn. -- brassy.


word: Brassy
definition:
Brassy

Brass"y
(_;)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

2.
Impudent; impudently bold.
[Colloq.]


word: Brast
definition:
Brast

Brast
(_;)
v. t. & i.
[See Burst.]
To burst.
[Obs.]

And both his yën braste out of his face.
Chaucer.

Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast.
Spenser.


word: Brat
definition:
Brat

Brat
(brăt)
n.
[OE. bratt coarse garnment, AS. bratt cloak, fr. the Celtic; cf. W. brat clout, rag, Gael. brat cloak, apron, rag, Ir. brat cloak; properly then, a child's bib or clout; hence, a child.]
1.
A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wright.

3.
A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
brat
Shak.
brat
Swift.

O Israel! O household of the Lord!
O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed!
Gascoigne.

4.
The young of an animal.
[Obs.]
L'Estrange.


word: bratchet
definition:
bratchet

bratch"et
(brăch"ĕt)
n.
[Sc. also bratchart; fr. ME. brachet, fr. OF.  brachet; ML. brachetus, dim. of brache a hound. See brach.]
a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a child.  See also brach.
[Also spelled brachet.]

The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey.
Scott, (Marmion, ii. int.).

To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye, my fair-favoured little gossip? .
Scott, (Kenilworth, II. xxi).


word: Bratislava
definition:
Bratislava

Bratislava
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Slovakia.  Population (2000) = 446,600.


word: Bratsche
definition:
Bratsche

Brat"sche
(_;)
n.
[G., fr. It. viola da braccio viola held on the arm.]
The tenor viola, or viola.


word: Brattice
definition:
Brattice

Brat"tice
(_;)
n.
[See Brettice.]
(Mining)
(a)
A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
(b)
Planking to support a roof or wall.


word: Brattishing
definition:
Brattishing

Brat"tish*ing
(_;)
n.
1.
See Brattice, n.

2.
(Arch.)
Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.


word: bratwurst
definition:
bratwurst

brat"wurst
(brăt"wûrst; brăt"wŏrst; brăt"vûrst; brät"wûrst; G. brăt"vŏrsht)
n.
[German.]
a small pork sausage seasoned with spices and herbs, and usually served broiled or sauteed.


word: Braunite
definition:
Braunite

Braun"ite
(_;)
n.
(Min.)
A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.


word: Bravado
definition:
Bravado

Bra*va"do
(_;)
n.
pl. Bravadoes (_;).
[Sp. bravada, bravata, boast, brag: cf. F. bravade. See Brave.]
Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

In spite of our host's bravado.
Irving.


word: Brave
definition:
Brave

Brave
(_;)
a.
[Compar. Braver; superl. Bravest.]
[F. brave, It. or Sp. bravo, (orig.) fierce, wild, savage, prob. from. L. barbarus. See Barbarous, and cf. Bravo.]

1.
Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

2.
Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
[Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.]

Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
Bacon.

It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Pepys.

3.
Making a fine show or display.
[Archaic]

Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
Shak.

For I have gold, and therefore will be brave.
In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
Robert Greene.

Frog and lizard in holiday coats
And turtle brave in his golden spots.
Emerson.


word: Brave₂
definition:
Brave

Brave
(_;)
n.
1.
A brave person; one who is daring.

The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
F. S. Key.

2.
Specifically, an Indian warrior.

3.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

Hot braves like thee may fight.
Dryden.

4.
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
[Obs.]

Demetrius, thou dost overween in all;
And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
Shak.


word: Brave₃
definition:
Brave

Brave
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Braved (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Braving.]
1.
To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare.

These I can brave, but those I can not bear.
Dryden.

2.
To adorn; to make fine or showy.
[Obs.]

Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.
Shak.


word: Bravely
definition:
Bravely

Brave"ly
(_;)
adv.
1.
In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

2.
Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.

And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her.
Judith. x. 4.

3.
Well; thrivingly; prosperously.
[Colloq.]


word: Bravery
definition:
Bravery

Brav"er*y
(_;)
n.
[Cf. F. braverie.]
1.
The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.

Remember, sir, my liege, . . . 
The natural bravery of your isle.
Shak.

2.
The act of braving; defiance; bravado.
[Obs.]

Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons.
Bacon.

3.
Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.

With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery.
Shak.

Like a stately ship . . . 
With all her bravery on, and tackle trim.
Milton.

4.
A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau.
[Obs.]

A man that is the bravery of his age.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Braving
definition:
Braving

Brav"ing
(_;)
n.
A bravado; a boast.

With so proud a strain
Of threats and bravings.
Chapman.


word: Bravo
definition:
Bravo

Bra"vo
(_;)
n.
pl. Bravoes (_;).
[I. See Brave, a.]
A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.

Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey.
And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way.
Churchill.


word: Bravo₂
definition:
Bravo

Bra"vo
(_;)
interj.
[It. See Brave.]
Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.


word: Bravura
definition:
Bravura

Bra*vu"ra
(_;)
n.
[It., (properly) bravery, spirit, from bravo. See Brave.]
(Mus.)
A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.

Aria di bravura (_;) [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.


word: Braw
definition:
Braw

Braw
(?)
a.
[See Brave, a.]
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
1.
Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad.
braw
Burns.

2.
Good; fine.
braw
Sir W. Scott.


word: Brawl
definition:
Brawl

Brawl
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Brawled (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Brawling.]
[OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr_;ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. _;95.]
1.
To quarrel noisily and outrageously.

Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife.
Golden Boke.

2.
To complain loudly; to scold.

3.
To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.

Where the brook brawls along the painful road.
Wordsworth.


word: Brawl₂
definition:
Brawl

Brawl
(_;)
n.
A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.

His sports were hindered by the brawls.
Shak.


word: Brawler
definition:
Brawler

Brawl"er
(_;)
n.
One that brawls; wrangler.

Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.


word: Brawling
definition:
Brawling

Brawl"ing
a.
1.
Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.

She is an irksome brawling scold.
Shak.

2.
Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3.

A brawling stream.
J. S. Shairp.


word: Brawn
definition:
Brawn

Brawn
(_;)
n.
[OF. braon fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. br_;to flesh, G. braten roast meat; akin to Icel. br_;_; flesh, food of beasts, AS. br_;de roast meat, br_;dan to roast, G. braten, and possibly to E. breed.]
1.
A muscle; flesh.
[Obs.]

Formed well of brawns and of bones.
Chaucer.

2.
Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.

Brawn without brains is thine.
Dryden.

It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand.
E. Hall.

And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn.
Shak.

3.
The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn.
Mortimer.

4.
A boar.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Braxy
definition:
Braxy

Brax"y
(_;)
n.
[Cf. AS. breac rheum, broc sickness, Ir.   bracha corruption. Jamieson.]
1.
A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.
[Scot.]

2.
A diseased sheep, or its mutton.


word: Bray
definition:
Bray

Bray
(brā)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Brayed (brād); p. pr. & vb. n. Braying.]
[OE. brayen, OF. breier, F. broyer to pound, grind, fr. OHG. brehhan to break. See Break.]
To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Prov. xxvii. 22.


word: Bray₂
definition:
Bray

Bray
v. i.
[OE brayen, F. braire to bray, OF. braire to cry, fr. LL. bragire to whinny; perh. fr. the Celtic and akin to E. break; or perh. of imitative origin.]

1.
To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

Laugh, and they
Return it louder than an ass can bray.
Dryden.

2.
To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.

Heard ye the din of battle bray?
Gray.


word: Bray₃
definition:
Bray

Bray
v. t.
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

Arms on armor clashing, brayed
Horrible discord.
MIlton.

And varying notes the war pipes brayed.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Bray₄
definition:
Bray

Bray
n.
The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

The bray and roar of multitudinous London.
Jerrold.


word: Bray₅
definition:
Bray

Bray
n.
[OE. braye, brey, brew, eyebrow, brow of a hill, hill, bank, Scot. bra, brae, bray, fr. AS. br&aemacr_;w eyebrow, influenced by the allied Icel. brā eyebrow, bank, also akin to AS. brū eyebrow. See Brow.]
A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
[North of Eng. & Scot.]
Fairfax.


word: Braze
definition:
Braze

Braze
(_;)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Brazed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Brazing.]
[F. braser to solder, fr. Icel. brasa to harden by fire. Cf. Brass.]
1.
To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.

2.
To harden.
brazes
Shak.


word: Braze₂
definition:
Braze

Braze
(_;)
v. t.
[AS. bræsian, fr. bræs brass. See Brass.]
To cover or ornament with brass.
Chapman.


word: Brazen
definition:
Brazen

Bra"zen
(_;)
a.
[OE. brasen, AS. bræsen. See Brass.]
1.
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

2.
Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

3.
Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.

Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.


word: Brazen₂
definition:
Brazen

Bra"zen
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Brazened (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Brazening.]
To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
W. Black.


word: Brazilian
definition:
Brazilian

Bra*zil"ian
(brȧ*zĭl"yan)
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Brazil.
n. A native or an inhabitant of Brazil.

Brazilian pebble. See Pebble, n., 2.


word: Brazilin
definition:
Brazilin

Braz"i*lin
(_;)
n.
[Cf. F. brésiline. See Brazil.]
(Chem.)
A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.
[Written also brezilin.]


word: Brazil nut
definition:
Brazil nut

Bra*zil" nut`
(brȧ*zĭl" nŭt`)
(Bot.)
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.

&hand_; From eighteen to twenty-four of the seeds or “nuts” grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.


word: Brazilwood
definition:
Brazilwood

Brazil wood

Bra*zil" wood`, Bra*zil"wood`
(brȧ*zĭl" wŏd`)
[OE. brasil, LL. brasile (cf. Pg. & Sp. brasil, Pr. bresil, Pr. bresil); perh. from Sp. or Pg. brasa a live coal (cf. Braze, Brasier); or Ar. vars plant for dyeing red or yellow. This name was given to the wood from its color; and it is said that King Emanuel, of Portugal, gave the name Brazil to the country in South America on account of its producing this wood.]

1.
The wood of the oriental Cæsalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

2.
A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing.  The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it.  An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of Caesalpinia Braziliensis and Caesalpinia crista.  This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.  The wood is also used for violin bows.

3.
a tropical tree (Caesalpinia echinata) with a prickly trunk; its heavy red heartwood (also called brazilwood) yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry.

Syn. -- peachwood, pernambuco wood.


word: Brazos
definition:
Brazos

Brazos
prop. n.
a North American river, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Syn. -- Brazos River.


word: Brazzaville
definition:
Brazzaville

Brazzaville
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Congo.  Population (2000) = 937,580.


word: Breach
definition:
Breach

Breach
(brēch)
n.
[OE. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to Dan. bræk, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break]
1.
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

2.
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

3.
A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
Shak.

4.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
2 Sam. v. 20.

A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. -- A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

5.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

There's fallen between him and my lord
An unkind breach.
Shak.

6.
A bruise; a wound.

Breach for breach, eye for eye.
Lev. xxiv. 20.

7.
(Med.)
A hernia; a rupture.

8.
A breaking out upon; an assault.

 The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.
1. Chron. xiii. 11.

Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. -- Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott.

- Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry. -- Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.


word: Breach₂
definition:
Breach

Breach
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Breached (_;) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breaching.]
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.


word: Breachy
definition:
Breachy

Breach"y
(_;)
a.
Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.


word: Bread
definition:
Bread

Bread
(brĕd)
v. t.
[AS. brædan to make broad, to spread. See Broad, a.]
To spread.
[Obs.]
Ray.


word: Bread₂
definition:
Bread

Bread
(brĕd)
n.
[AS. breád; akin to OFries. brād, OS. br&omacrd, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brauð, Sw. & Dan. bröd. The root is probably that of E. brew. √93.  See Brew.]
1.
An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

&hand_; Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking. -- Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid. -- Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only.

Aërated bread. See under Aërated. Bread and butter (fig.), means of living. -- Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, Rye and Indian bread. See Brown bread, under Brown. -- Bread tree. See Breadfruit.

2.
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Give us this day our daily bread.
Matt. vi. 11


word: Bread₃
definition:
Bread

Bread
v. t.
(Cookery)
To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.


word: bread-bin
definition:
bread-bin

bread"-bin
n.
a container used to store breads or cake, to keep them fresh.

Syn. -- breadbox.


word: breadbox
definition:
breadbox

bread"box`
n.
a container used to store breads or cake, to keep them fresh.

Syn. -- bread-bin.


word: Breadfruit
definition:
Breadfruit

Bread"fruit`
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
1.
The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa)  found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.

2.
(Bot.)
The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.


word: Breadless
definition:
Breadless

Bread"less
a.
Without bread; destitute of food.

Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull.
P. Whitehead.


word: Breadroot
definition:
Breadroot

Bread`root"
(_;)
n.
(Bot.)
The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

&hand_; It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.


word: Breadth
definition:
Breadth

Breadth
(brĕdth)
n.
[OE. brede, breede, whence later bredette, AS. br&aemacr_;du, fr. brād broad. See Broad, a.]

1.
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

2.
(Fine Arts)
breadth of effect
Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters.
Weale.


word: Breadwinner
definition:
Breadwinner

Bread"win`ner
(brĕd"wĭn`nẽr)
n.
The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
H. Spencer.


word: Break
definition:
Break

Break
(brāk)
v. t.
[imp. broke (br&omacrk), (Obs. Brake); p. p. Broken (br&omacr"k'n), (Obs. Broke); p. pr. & vb. n. Breaking.]
[OE. breken, AS. brecan; akin to OS. brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel. braka to creak, Sw. braka, bräkka to crack, Dan. brække to break, Goth. brikan to break, L. frangere. Cf. Bray to pound, Breach, Fragile.]
1.
To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
Shak.

2.
To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

3.
To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

Katharine, break thy mind to me.
Shak.

4.
To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.

 Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . 
To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray.
Milton

5.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.

Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore.
Shak.

6.
To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.

7.
To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

8.
To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity.
Prescott.

9.
To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

10.
To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.

11.
To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.

An old man, broken with the storms of state.
Shak.

12.
To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.

I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall.
Dryden.

13.
To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.

14.
To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
break
Spenser.

Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?
Shak.

15.
To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.

With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks,
Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks.
Dryden.

16.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

I see a great officer broken.
Swift.

With prepositions or adverbs: --

To break down. (a) To crush; to overwhelm; as, to break down one's strength; to break down opposition. (b) To remove, or open a way through, by breaking; as, to break down a door or wall. -- To break in. (a) To force in; as, to break in a door. (b) To train; to discipline; as, a horse well broken in. -- To break of, to rid of; to cause to abandon; as, to break one of a habit. -- To break off. (a) To separate by breaking; as, to break off a twig. (b) To stop suddenly; to abandon. “Break off thy sins by righteousness.” Dan. iv. 27.  -- To break open, to open by breaking. “Open the door, or I will break it open.” Shak. -- To break out, to take or force out by breaking; as, to break out a pane of glass. -- To break out a cargo, to unstow a cargo, so as to unload it easily. -- To break through. (a) To make an opening through, as, as by violence or the force of gravity; to pass violently through; as, to break through the enemy's lines; to break through the ice. (b) To disregard; as, to break through the ceremony. -- To break up. (a) To separate into parts; to plow (new or fallow ground). “Break up this capon.” Shak.  “Break up your fallow ground.” Jer. iv. 3. (b) To dissolve; to put an end to. “Break up the court.” Shak. -- To break (one) all up, to unsettle or disconcert completely; to upset. [Colloq.]

With an immediate object: --

To break the back. (a) To dislocate the backbone; hence, to disable totally. (b) To get through the worst part of; as, to break the back of a difficult undertaking. -- To break bulk, to destroy the entirety of a load by removing a portion of it; to begin to unload; also, to transfer in detail, as from boats to cars. -- To break a code to discover a method to convert coded messages into the original understandable text. -- To break cover, to burst forth from a protecting concealment, as game when hunted. -- To break a deer or To break a stag, to cut it up and apportion the parts among those entitled to a share. -- To break fast, to partake of food after abstinence. See Breakfast. -- To break ground. (a) To open the earth as for planting; to commence excavation, as for building, siege operations, and the like; as, to break ground for a foundation, a canal, or a railroad. (b) Fig.: To begin to execute any plan. (c) (Naut.) To release the anchor from the bottom. -- To break the heart, to crush or overwhelm (one) with grief. -- To break a house (Law), to remove or set aside with violence and a felonious intent any part of a house or of the fastenings provided to secure it. -- To break the ice, to get through first difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning; to introduce a subject. -- To break jail, to escape from confinement in jail, usually by forcible means. -- To break a jest, to utter a jest. “Patroclus . . . the livelong day breaks scurril jests.”  Shak. -- To break joints, to lay or arrange bricks, shingles, etc., so that the joints in one course shall not coincide with those in the preceding course. -- To break a lance, to engage in a tilt or contest. -- To break the neck, to dislocate the joints of the neck. -- To break no squares, to create no trouble. [Obs.] -- To break a path, road, etc., to open a way through obstacles by force or labor. -- To break upon a wheel, to execute or torture, as a criminal by stretching him upon a wheel, and breaking his limbs with an iron bar; -- a mode of punishment formerly employed in some countries. -- To break wind, to give vent to wind from the anus.


word: Break₂
definition:
Break

Break
(brāk)
v. i.
1.
To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

2.
To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.

Else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out.
Math. ix. 17.

3.
To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.

The day begins to break, and night is fled.
Shak.

And from the turf a fountain broke,
and gurgled at our feet.
Wordsworth.

4.
To burst forth violently, as a storm.

 The clouds are still above; and, while I speak,
A second deluge o'er our head may break.
Dryden.

5.
To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.

At length the darkness begins to break.
Macaulay.

6.
To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

See how the dean begins to break;
Poor gentleman! he droops apace.
Swift.

7.
To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

8.
To fall in business; to become bankrupt.

He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty.
Bacn.

9.
To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.

10.
To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.

11.
To fall out; to terminate friendship.

To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.
Collier.

With prepositions or adverbs: -

To break away, to disengage one's self abruptly; to come or go away against resistance.

Fear me not, man; I will not break away.
Shak.

To break down. (a) To come down by breaking; as, the coach broke down. (b) To fail in any undertaking; to halt before successful completion; as, the negotiations broke down due to irreconcilable demands. (c) To cease functioning or to malfunction; as, the car broke down in the middle of the highway.
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He had broken down almost at the outset. Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
 -- To break forth, to issue; to come out suddenly, as sound, light, etc. “Then shall thy light break forth as the morning.”  Isa. lviii. 8;
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often with into in expressing or giving vent to one's feelings. “Break forth into singing, ye mountains.”  Isa. xliv. 23.
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To break from, to go away from abruptly.
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This radiant from the circling crowd he broke. Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
 -- To break into, to enter by breaking; as, to break into a house. -- To break in upon, to enter or approach violently or unexpectedly. “This, this is he; softly awhile; let us not break in upon him.”  Milton. -- To break loose. (a) To extricate one's self forcibly. “Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell?” Milton. (b) To cast off restraint, as of morals or propriety. -- To break off. (a) To become separated by rupture, or with suddenness and violence. (b) To desist or cease suddenly. “Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so.” Shak.  -- To break off from, to desist from; to abandon, as a habit. -- To break out. (a) To burst forth; to escape from restraint; to appear suddenly, as a fire or an epidemic.  “For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and stream in the desert.” Isa. xxxv. 6 (b) To show itself in cutaneous eruptions; -- said of a disease. (c) To have a rash or eruption on the akin; -- said of a patient. -- To break over, to overflow; to go beyond limits. -- To break up. (a) To become separated into parts or fragments; as, the ice break up in the rivers; the wreck will break up in the next storm. (b) To disperse. “The company breaks up.” I. Watts. -- To break upon, to discover itself suddenly to; to dawn upon. -- To break with. (a) To fall out; to sever one's relations with; to part friendship. “It can not be the Volsces dare break with us.” Shak.  “If she did not intend to marry Clive, she should have broken with him altogether.” Thackeray. (b) To come to an explanation; to enter into conference; to speak. [Obs.] “I will break with her and with her father.” Shak.


word: Break₃
definition:
Break

Break
(brāk)
n.
[See Break, v. t., and cf. Brake (the instrument), Breach, Brack a crack.]
1.
An opening made by fracture or disruption.

2.
An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
Specifically:
(a)
(Arch.)
A projection or recess from the face of a building.
(b)
(Elec.)
An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.

3.
An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.

4.
An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.

All modern trash is
Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes.
Swift.

5.
The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.

6.
A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

7.
A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

8.
(Teleg.)
See Commutator.


word: breakability
definition:
breakability

breakability
n.
the quality of being easily damaged or destroyed.

Syn. -- fragility.


word: Breakage
definition:
Breakage

Break"age
(_;)
n.
1.
The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

2.
An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.


word: Breakaway
definition:
Breakaway

Break"a*way`
(?)
n.
[Break + away]
[Australasia]
1.
A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.

2.
An animal that breaks away from a herd.

3.
an object designed to break off or shatter under impact, as a safety measure.

4.
(Sport)
the sudden emergence of one or more players or contestants from a clustered group, rushing toward a goal, as bicyclists in a race, or baketball players after a rebound has been caught.


word: breakaxe
definition:
breakaxe

breakaxe
n.
a West Indian timber tree (Sloanea jamaicensis) having very hard wood.

Syn. -- breakax.


word: Break-circuit
definition:
Break-circuit

Break"-cir`cuit
(_;)
n.
(Elec.)
A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.


word: break dancing
definition:
break dancing

break" danc`ing
n.
a type of solo dancing in which the dancer performs elaborate footwork, pantomime, and various acrobatic movements, such as spinning head stands or spinning on the back, and usually containing much improvization.  It was first performed by male teenagers in the 1970's, in small informal groups on the streets, and is often performed to the accompaniment of rap music or other rock music with a rapid, strong beat.
break" dance`, n. -- break" dan`cer, n.


word: Breakdown
definition:
Breakdown

Break"down`
(_;)
n.
1.
The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

2.
(a)
A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
(b)
Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
[U.S.]

Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
New Eng. Tales.


word: Breaker
definition:
Breaker

Break"er
(_;)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, breaks.

I'll be no breaker of the law.
Shak.

2.
Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.

3.
(Naut.)
A small water cask.
Totten.

4.
A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.

The breakers were right beneath her bows.
Longfellow.

5.
a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.

Syn. -- ledgeman.


word: Breakfast
definition:
Breakfast

Break"fast
(_;)
n.
[Break + fast.]
1.
The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.

A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.
Shak.

2.
A meal after fasting, or food in general.

The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
Dryden.


word: Breakfast₂
definition:
Breakfast

Break"fast
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. breakfasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breakfasting.]
To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.

First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
Prior.


