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Blushless

BLUSH'LESS, adjective Unblushing; past blushing; impudent.

Blushy

BLUSH'Y, adjective Like a blush; having the color of a blush.

Bluster

BLUS'TER, verb intransitive [Probably allied to blaze, blast.]

1. To be loud, noisy or swaggering; to bully; to purr; to swagger; as a turbulent or boasting person.

2. To roar, and be tumultuous, as wind; to be boisterous; to be windy; ; to hurry.

BLUS'TER, noun Noise; tumult; boasting; boisterousness; turbulence; roar of a tempest; violent wind; hurry; any irregular noise and tumult from wind, or from vanity.

Blusterer

BLUS'TERER, noun A swaggerer; a bully; a noisy, tumultuous fellow, who makes great pretensions from vanity.

Blustering

BLUS'TERING, participle present tense Making a noise; puffing; boasting.

BLUS'TERING, adjective Noisy; tumultuous; windy.

Blustrous

BLUS'TROUS, adjective Noisy; tumultuous; boastful.

Bo

BO, exclamation A word of terror; a customary sound uttered by children to frighten their fellows.

Boa

BO'A, noun A genus of serpents, of the class Amphibia, the characters of which are, the belly and tail are furnished with scuta. It includes the largest species of serpent, the constrictor, sometimes 30 or 40 feet long.

Boar

BOAR, noun [Latin aper, and verres.] The male of swine not castrated.

Boar-Spear

BOAR-SPEAR, noun A spear used in hunting boars.

BOAR, verb intransitive The manege, a horse is said to boar, when he shoots out his nose, raising it as high as his ears, and tosses his nose in the wind.

Board

BOARD, noun

1. A piece of timber sawed thin and of considerable length and breadth, compared with the thickness, used for building and other purposes.

2. A table. The table of our rude ancestors was a piece of board perhaps originally laid upon the knees. 'Lauti cibum capiunt; separata singulis sedes, et sua cuique mensa.'

3. Entertainment; food; diet; as, the price of board is two, five, or seven dollars a week.

4. A table at which a council or court is held; hence a council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting; as a board of directors.

5. The desk of a ship; the interior part of a ship or boat; used in the phrase, on board aboard. In this phrase however the sense is primarily the side of the ship. To go aboard is to go over the side.

6. The side of a ship.

Now board to board the rival vessels row.

To fall over board that is, over the side; the mast went by the board

BOARD and board side by side.

7. The line over which a ship runs between tack and tack. To make a good board is to sail in a straight line, when close hauled.

To make short boards, is to tack frequently.

8. A table for artificers to sit or work on.

9. A table or frame for a game; as a chess board etc.

10. A body of men constituting a quorum in session; a court, or council; as a board of trustees; a board of officers.

BOARD, verb transitive To lay or spread with boards; to cover with boards.

1. To enter a ship by force in combat, which answers to storming a city or fort on land.

2. To attack; to make the first attempt upon a man. In Spenser, to accost.

3. To place at board for a compensation, as a lodger.

4. To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation; as, a man boards ten students.

BOARD, verb intransitive To receive food or diet as a lodger or without lodgings, for a compensation; as, he boards at the moderate price of two dollars a week.

Board-Load

BOARD-LOAD, noun [bord and load.] The service required of a tenant to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house; also, the quantity of provision paid by a bord-man for bord-land.

Board-Wages

BOARD-WAGES, noun Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victuals.

Boardable

BOARDABLE, adjective That may be boarded, as a ship.

Boarded

BOARDED, participle passive Covered with boards; entered by armed men, as a ship; furnished with food for a compensation.

Boarder

BOARDER, noun One who has food or diet and lodging in another's family for a reward.

1. One who boards a ship in action; one who is selected to board ships.

Boarding

BOARDING, participle present tense Covering with boards; entering a ship by force; furnishing or receiving board, as a lodger, for a reward.

Boarding-School

BOARDING-SCHOOL, noun A school, the scholars of which board with the teacher.

Boarish

BOARISH, adjective [from boar.] Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Boast

BOAST, verb intransitive [Gr. to inflate; Latin fastus.]

1. To brag, or vaunt one's self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one's own worth, property, or actions.

2. To glory; to speak with laudable pride and ostentation of meritorious persons or things.

I boast of you to them of Macedonia. St. Paul. 2. Cor.9.

Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in.

3. To exalt one's self.

With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezek.

BOAST, verb transitive To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self-commendation.

Lest men should boast their specious deeds.

1. Magnify or exalt.

They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms 49:6.

2. To exult in confident expectation.

BOAST not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1.

BOAST, noun Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting.

Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:17

1. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation.

Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation.

Boaster

BOASTER, noun One who boasts, glories or vaunts ostentatiously.

Boastful

BOASTFUL, adjective Given to boasting; ostentatious of personal worth or actions.

Boasting

BOASTING, participle present tense Talking ostentatiously; glorying; vaunting.

BOASTING, noun Ostentatious display of personal worth, or actions; a glorying or vaunting.

Where is boasting then? Romans 3:27.

Boastingly

BOASTINGLY, adverb In an ostentatious manner; with boasting.

Boastive

BOASTIVE, adjective Presumptuous. [Unusual.]

Boastless

BOASTLESS, adjective Without ostentation.

Boat

BOAT, noun

1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat, lanch, barge, pinnace, jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat, perogue, etc.

2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat. etc.

BOAT, verb transitive To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.

Boat-Bill

BOAT-BILL, noun [boat and bill.] A genus of birds, the Cancroma, of two species, the crested and the brown; but by some ornithologists, they are considered as varieties of the same species. They are of the grallic order, with a bill four inches long, not unlike a boat with the keel uppermost, or like the bowls of two spoons, with the hollow parts placed together.

Boat-Fly

BOAT-FLY or BOAT-INSECT, noun A genus of insects, hemipters, known in zoology by the generic term Notonecta.

Boat-Hook

BOAT-HOOK, noun [boat and hook.] an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat.

Boat-Rope

BOAT-ROPE, noun [boat and rope.] A rope to fasten a boat, usually called a painter.

Boat-Shaped

BOAT-SHAPED, adjective Having the shape of a boat; navicular; cymbiform; hollow like a boat; as the valve of some pericarps.

Boatable

BOATABLE, adjective Navigable for boats, or small river craft.

Boating

BOATING, participle present tense Transporting in boats.

BOATING, noun The act of practice of transporting in boats.

1. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders by laying them on the back in a boat which is covered, where they perish.

Boation

BOA'TION, noun [Latin boo.] A crying out; a roar. [Not used.]

Boatman

BOATMAN

BOATSMAN, noun [boat and man.] A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

Boatsman

BOATSMAN, n. [boat and man.] A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

Boatswain

BOATSWAIN, noun In seamen's language, bosn.

An officer on board of ships, who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables and cordage. His office is also, to summon the crew to their duty. to relieve the watch, assist in the necessary business of the ship, seize and punish offenders, etc. He has a mate who has charge of the long-boat, for setting forth and weighing anchors, warping, towing and mooring.

Bob

BOB, noun Any little round thing, that plays loosely at the end of a string, cord, or movable machine; a little ornament or pendant that hangs so as to play loosely.

Our common people apply the word to a knot of worms, on a string, used in fishing for eels.

1. The words repeated at the end of a stanza.

2. A blow; a shake or jog; a jeer or flout.

3. The ball of a short pendulum.

4. A mode of ringing.

5. A bob-wig.

BOB, verb intransitive To play backward and forward; to play loosely against any thing.

1. To angle, or fish for eels, or to catch eels with a bob

Bob-Tailed

BOB'-TAILED, adjective Having the hair cut short.

Bob-Wig

BOB-WIG, noun [bob and wig.] A short wig.

Bobance

BOBANCE, noun bobans'. A boasting. [Not in use.]

Bobbed

BOB'BED, participle passive Beat of shaken; cheated; gained by fraud; deluded.

Bobbin

BOB'BIN, noun A small pin or cylindrical piece of wood, with a head, on which thread is wound for making lace. A similar instrument, bored through to receive an iron pivot, and with a border at each end, is used in spinning, to wind thread or silk on; a spool.

Bobbing

BOB'BING, participle present tense Playing back and forth; striking; cheating; angling for eels.

Bobbinwork

BOB'BINWORK, noun [bobbin and work.] Work woven with bobbins.

BOB'-CHERRY, noun [bob and cherry.] Among children, a play in which a cherry is hung so as to bob against the mouth.

Bobo

BO'BO, noun A Mexican fish, two feet long, in high esteem for food.

Bobstays

BOB'STAYS, noun [bob and stay.] Ropes to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem.

Bobtail

BOB'TAIL, noun [bob and tail.] A short tail, or a tail cut short.

1. The rabble; used in contempt.

Bocaque

BOCAQUE or BOCAKE, noun An animal found on the banks of the Nieper, resembling a rabbit, except that its ears are shorter, and it has no tail.

Bocasine

BOC'ASINE, noun A sort of fine linen or buckram.

Boce

BOCE, noun The sparus, a beautiful fish.

Bockelet

BOCK'ELET

BOCK'ERET, noun A kind of long-winged hawk.

Bockeret

BOCK'ERET, n. A kind of long-winged hawk.

Bockland

BOCK'LAND, noun [book and land.] In old English laws, charter land, held by deed under certain rents and free-services, which differed nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

Bode

BODE, verb transitive To portend; to foreshow; to presage; to indicate something future by signs; to be the omen of; most generally applied to things; as, our vices bode evil to the country.

BODE, verb intransitive To foreshow; to presage.

This bodes well to you.

BODE, noun An omen.

1. A stop.

Bodement

BO'DEMENT, noun An omen; portent; prognostic; a fore-showing.

Bodge

BODGE, verb intransitive [See Boggle.] To boggle; to stop. [Not used.]

BODGE, noun A botch. [Not used.]

Bodice

BOD'ICE, noun Stays; a waistcoat, quilted with whalebone; worn by women.

Bodied

BOD'IED, adjective [from body.] Having a body.

Bodiless

BOD'ILESS, adjective [See Body.] Having no body or material form; incorporeal.

Bodily

BOD'ILY, adjective Having or containing a body or material form; corporeal; as bodily dimensions.

1. Relating or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind; as bodily defects; bodily pain.

2. Real; actual; as bodily act.

BOD'ILY, adverb Corporeally; united with a body or matter.

It is his human nature, in which the Godhead dwells bodily

Boding

BO'DING, participle present tense [from bode.] Foreshowing; presaging.

BO'DING, noun An omen.

Bodkin

BOD'KIN, noun [Gr.a thorn.]

1. An instrument of steel; bone, ivory or the like, with a small blade, and a sharp point, for making holes by piercing. A like instrument with an eye, for drawing thread, tape, or ribin through a loop, etc. An instrument to dress the hair.

2. A dagger. [Not in use.]

Bodleian

BOD'LEIAN, adjective Pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, who founded a celebrated library in the 16th century.

Body

BOD'Y, noun

1. The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man.

Be not anxious for your body

2. Matter, as opposed to spirit.

3. A person; a human being; sometimes alone; more generally, with some or no; as, somebody; nobody.

4. Reality, as opposed to representation.

A shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. Colossians 2:11

5. A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. Christians united or the Church is called the body of which each Christian is a member, and Christ the head. 1 Corinthians 12:12.27.

6. The main army, in distinction from the wings, van or rear. Also, any number of forces under one commander.

7. A corporation; a number of men, united by a common tie, by one form of government, or by occupation; as the legislative body; the body of the clergy; body corporate; body politic.

8. The main part; the bulk; as the body of a tree; the body of a coach, of a ship, etc.

9. Any extended solid substance; matter; any substance or mass distinct from others; as a metaline body; a floating body; a moving body; a light body; a heavy body

10. A pandect; a general collection; a code; a system; as a body of laws; a body of divinity.

11. Strength; as wine of a good body

12. Among painters, 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.

13. The unrenewed part of man, or sensual affections.

But I keep under by body 1 Corinthians 9:27.

14. The extent; the limits.

Cause to come here on such a day, twelve free and lawful men--from the body of your county.

BOD'Y, verb transitive To produce in some form.

Imagination bodies forth the forms of things.

Body-Clothes

BOD'Y-CLOTHES, noun plural [body and cloth.]

Clothing or covering for the body, as for a horse.

Body-Guard

BOD'Y-GUARD, noun The guard that protects or defense the person; the life guard. Hence, security.

Bog

BOG, noun

1. A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh, and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spongy land, upon the surface, but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed.

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.]

BOG, verb transitive To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire.

BOG'-BEAN, noun [bog and bean; called buck-bean.]

Menyanthes, a plant, the marsh-trefoil, which grows in moist and marshy places.

BOG'-BERRY, noun [bog and berry.] Vaccinium, a name of the cranberry growing in low lands and marshy places.

Bog-Ore

BOG'-ORE, noun An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land.

BOG'-RUSH, noun [bog and rush.] A rush that grows in bogs, the Schoenus.

1. A bird, a species of warbler, of the size of a wren, of a testaceous brown color, seen among the bog-rushes of Schonen in Sweden.

BOG'-SPAVIN, noun [bog and spavin.] In horses, an encysted tumor on the inside of the hough, containing a gelatinous matter.

BOG'-TROTTER, noun [bog and trot.] One who lives in a boggy country.

BOG'-WHORT, noun [bog and whort.] The bilberry or whortleberry growing in low lands.

Boggle

BOG'GLE, verb intransitive

1. To doubt; to hesitate; to stop, as if afraid to proceed, or as if impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to play fast and loose. We boggle at every unusual appearance.

2. To dissemble.

BOG'GLE, verb transitive To embarrass with difficulties; a popular or vulgar use of the word in the United States.

Boggled

BOG'GLED, participle passive Perplexed and impeded by sudden difficulties; embarrassed.

Boggler

BOG'GLER, noun A doubter; a timorous man.

Boggling

BOG'GLING, participle present tense Starting or stopping at difficulties; hesitating.

Bogglish

BOG'GLISH, adjective Doubtful. [Not used.]

Boggy

BOG'GY, adjective [from bog.] Containing bogs; full of bogs.

Boghouse

BOG'HOUSE, noun [bog and house.] A house of office.

BOG'-LAND, adjective [bog and land.] Living in or pertaining to a marshy country.

Bogle

BO'GLE, or BOG'GLE, noun A bugbear.

Bohea

BOHE'A, noun A species of coarse or low priced tea from China; a species of black tea.

Boiar

BOI'AR or BOY'AR, noun In the Russian Empire, a nobleman; a lord; a person of quality; a soldier. This word answers nearly to Baron in Great Britain, and other countries in the west of Europe.

Boiarin

BOI'ARIN, noun In Russia, a gentleman; a person of distinction; the master of a family.

Boil

BOIL, verb intransitive [Latin bullio, bulla, a bubble.]

1. To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils. In a chimical sense, to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor, with a bubbling motion.

2. To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam.

3. To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger.

4. To be in boiling water; to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose.

5. To bubble; to effervesce; as a mixture of acid and alkali.

To boil away, to evaporate by boiling.

To boil over, is to run over the top of a vessel, as liquor when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence.

BOIL, verb transitive To dress or cook in boiling water; to seethe; to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling.

1. To prepare for some use in boiling liquor; as, to boil silk, thread or cloth. To form by boiling and evaporation. This word is applied to a variety of processes for different purposes; as, to boil salt, or sugar, etc. In general, boiling is a violent agitation, occasioned by heat; to boil a liquor is to subject it to heat till it bubbles, and to boil any solid substance is to subject it to heat in a boiling liquid.

BOIL, noun A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling.

Boiled

BOIL'ED, participle passive Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of boiling liquor.

Boiler

BOIL'ER, noun A person who boils.

1. A vessel in which any thing is boiled. A large pan, or vessel of iron, copper or brass, used in distilleries, pot-ash works and the like, for boiling large quantities of liquor at once.

Boilery

BOIL'ERY, noun A place for boiling and the apparatus.

Boiling

BOIL'ING, participle present tense Bubbling; heaving in bubbles; being agitated as boiling liquor; swelling with heat, ardor or passion; dressing or preparing for some purpose by hot water.

BOIL'ING, noun The act or state of bubbling; agitation by heat; ebullition; the act of dressing by hot water; the act of preparing by hot water, or of evaporating by heat.

Boiobi

BOIO'BI, noun A green snake, found in America, an ell in length, called by the Portuguese, cobra de verb. It is harmless, unless provoked; but its bite is noxious.

Boisterous

BOIS'TEROUS, adjective

1. Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; as a boisterous wind.

2. Turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; as a boisterous man.

3. Large; unwieldy; huge; clumsily violent; as a boisterous club.

4. Violent; as a boisterous heat.

Boisterously

BOIS'TEROUSLY, adverb Violently; furiously; with loud noise; tumultuously.

Boisterousness

BOIS'TEROUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

Boitiapo

BOITI'APO, noun A Brazilian serpent, about eight feet long, covered with triangular scales, of an olive or yellowish color, whose bite is mortal.

Bolary

BO'LARY, adjective [See Bole.] Pertaining to bole or clay, or partaking of its nature and qualities.

Bolbitine

BOL'BITINE, adjective An epithet given to one of the channels of the Nile, by which its waters are discharged into the Mediterranean. It is the second from West to East, but nearly filled with sand.

Bold

BOLD, adjective

1. Daring; courageous; brave; intrepid; fearless; applied to men or other animals; as, bold as a lion.

2. Requiring courage in the execution; executed with spirit or boldness; planned with courage and spirit; as a bold enterprise.

3. Confident; not timorous.

We were bold in our God to speak to you. 1 Thessalonians 2:2.

4. In an ill sense, rude, forward, impudent.

5. Licentious; showing great liberty of fiction or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold

6. Standing out to view; striking to the eye; as bold figures in painting, sculpture and architecture.

7. Steep; abrupt; prominent; as a bold shore, which enters the water almost perpendicularly, so that ships can approach near to land without danger.

Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.

To make bold to take freedoms; a common, but not a correct phrase. To be bold is better.

BOLD, verb transitive To make daring. [Not used.]

Bold-Face

BOLD-FACE, noun [bold and face.] Impudence; sauciness; a term of reprehension, and reproach.

Bold-Faced

BOLD-FACED, adjective Impudent.

Bolden

BOLDEN, verb transitive To make bold; to give confidence. This is nearly disused; being superseded by embolden.

Boldly

BOLDLY, adverb In a bold matter; courageously; intrepidly; without timidity or fear; with confidence. Sometimes, perhaps, in a bad sense, for impudently.

Boldness

BOLDNESS, noun Courage; bravery; intrepidity; spirit; fearlessness. I cannot, with Johnson, interpret this word by fortitude or magnanimity. boldness does not, I think, imply the firmness of mind, which constitutes fortitude, nor the elevation and generosity of magnanimity.

1. Prominence; the quality of exceeding the ordinary rules of scrupulous nicety and caution; applied to style, expression, and metaphors in language; and to figures in painting, sculpture and architecture.

2. Freedom from timidity; liberty.

Great is my boldness of speech towards you. 2 Corinthians 7:4.

3. Confidence; confident trust.

We have boldness and access with confidence. Ephesians 3:12.

4. Freedom from bashfulness; assurance; confident mien.

5. Prominence; steepness; as the boldness of the shore.

6. Excess of freedom, bordering on impudence.

Bole

BOLE, noun

1. The body, or stem of a tree. [Not in use.]

2. A measure of corn, containing six bushels.

BOLE, noun A kind of fine clay, often highly colored by iron. Its color is reddish yellow of various shades, often with a tinge of brown, sometimes passing to reddish, yellowish, or blackish brown, flesh red, or yellowish white. It is opake or a little translucid, especially at the edges, in the red and yellow varieties. It is compact and its fracture conchoidal. It is brittle, smooth, a little unctuous, and receives a polish from the finger nail. It adheres to the tongue, melts by degrees in the mouth and impresses a slight sense of astringency.

Armenian bole is of a bright red color, with a tinge of yellow, harder than the other kinds, and of a rough dusty surface.

BOLE of Blois is yellow, lighter than the other kinds, and it effervesces with acids.

Bohemian bole is of a yellow color, with a cast of red, and of a flaky texture.

French bole is of a pale red color, variegated with specks of white and yellow.

Lemnian bole is of a pale red color.

Silesian bole is of a pale yellow color.

Boletic

BOLET'IC, adjective boletic acid is the acid of Boletus, a genus of mushrooms.

Boletus

BOLE'TUS, noun [Latin] A genus of mushrooms, containing many species.

Bolguacu

BOLGU'ACU, noun The largest of the serpent kind, and said to be forty feet long.

Bolis

BO'LIS, noun [Latin from Gr., a dart; to throw.]

A fire-ball darting through the air, followed by a train of light or sparks.

Boll

BOLL, noun The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax; a pericarp. Bole, a measure of six bushels, is sometimes written in this manner.

BOLL, verb intransitive To form into a pericarp or seed-vessel.

The barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled. Exodus 9:31.

Heb., Gr., as translated by the seventy.

BOLLard timbers, in a ship, or knight-heads, are two timbers, rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

In docks, bollards are large posts set in the ground on each side, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawsers for docking and undocking ships.

BOLO'GNIAN STONE. Bolo'nain stone. Radiated sulphate of barytes; found in roundish masses, composed of radiating fibers; first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent, when calcined.

Bolster

BOLSTER, noun

1. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of persons lying on a bed; generally laid under the pillows.

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

3. In sadlery, a part of a saddle raised upon the bows or hinder part, to hold the rider's thigh.

4. In ships, a cushion or bag, filled with tarred canvas, used to preserve the stays from being worn or chafed by the masts.

BOLSTER, verb transitive To support with a bolster pillow or any soft pad or quilt.

1. To support; to hold up; to maintain.

2. To afford a bed to.

Bolstered

BOLSTERED, adjective Swelled out.

Bolsterer

BOLSTERER, noun A supporter.

Bolstering

BOLSTERING, noun A prop or support.

Bolt

BOLT, noun [Latin pello.]

1. An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft.

2. A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, etc. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts, chain-bolts, etc. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts.

3. A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt

4. The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas.

BOLT, verb transitive To fasten or secure with a bolt or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else.

1. To fasten; to shackle; to restrain.

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

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.

In this sense it is often followed by out.

3. To sift or separate bran from flour. In America this term is applied only to the operation performed in mills.

4. Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.

5. To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. 'Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.' [Inelegant.]

6. To purify; to purge. [Unusual.]

7. To discuss or argue; as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers.

BOLT, verb intransitive To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den.

Bolt-Auger

BOLT-AUGER, noun [bolt and auger.] A large borer, used in ship-building.

Bolt-Boat

BOLT-BOAT, noun [bolt and boat.] A strong boat that will endure a rough sea.

Bolt-Head

BOLT-HEAD, noun [bolt and head.] A long straight-necked glass vessel for chimical distillations, called also a matrass or receiver.

Bolt-Rope

BOLT-ROPE, noun [bolt and rope.] A rope to which the edges of sails are sewed to strengthen them. That part of it on the perpendicular side is called the leech-rope; that at the bottom, the foot-rope; that at the top, the head-rope.

Bolt-Sprit

BOLT-SPRIT, noun [From the universal popular pronunciation of this word, this may have been the original word; but I doubt it. See. Bowsprit.]

Bolted

BOLTED, participle passive Made a fast with a bolt; shot forth; sifted; examined.

Bolter

BOLTER, noun An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour or the coarser part of meal from the finer.

1. A kind of net.

Bolting

BOLTING, ppr. Fastening with a bolt, or bolts; blurting out; shooting forth suddenly; separating bran from flour; sifting; examining; discussing; dislodging.

BOLTING, noun The act of fastening with a bolt or bolts; a sifting; discussion.

Bolting-Cloth

BOLTING-CLOTH, noun [bolt and cloth.] A linen or hair cloth of which bolters are made for sifting meal.

Bolting-House

BOLTING-HOUSE, noun [bolt and house.] The house or place where meal is bolted.

Bolting-Hutch

BOLTING-HUTCH, noun A tub for bolted flour.

Bolting-Mill

BOLTING-MILL, n, [bolt and mill.] A machine or engine for sifting meal.

Bolting-Tub

BOLTING-TUB, noun A tub to sift meal in.

Bolus

BO'LUS, noun [Latin bolus; Gr. a mass.] A soft mass of any thing medicinal to be swallowed at once, like a pill. It may be of any ingredients, made a little thicker than honey.

Bom

BOM, noun A large serpent found in America, of a harmless nature, and remarkable for uttering a sound like bom

Bomb

BOMB, [Latin bombus.] A great noise.

1. A large shell of cast iron, round and hollow, with a vent to receive a fusee, which is made of wood. This being filled with gunpowder and the fusee driven into the vent, the fusee is set on fire and the bomb is thrown from a mortar, in such a direction as to fall into a fort, city or enemy's camp, when it bursts with great violence and often with terrible effect. The inventor of bombs is not known; they came into common use about the year 1634.

2. The stroke upon a bell.

BOMB, verb transitive To attack with bombs; to bombard. [Not used.]

BOMB, verb intransitive To sound.

Bombard

BOM'BARD, noun [bomb and ard, kind.]

1. A piece of short thick ordnance with a large mouth, formerly used; some of them carrying a ball of three hundred pounds weight. It is called also basilisk, and by the Dutch, donderbuss, thunder-gun. But the thing and the name are no longer in use.

2. An attack with bombs; bombardment.

3. A barrel; a drinking vessel.

BOMB'ARD, verb transitive To attack with bombs thrown from mortars.

Bombarded

BOMB'ARDED, participle passive Attacked with bombs.

Bombardier

BOMBARDIE'R, noun One whose business is to attend the loading and firing of mortars.

1. Carabus, a genus of insects of the beetle kind.

Bombarding

BOMB'ARDING, participle present tense Attacking with shells or bombs.

Bombardment

BOMB'ARDMENT, noun An attack with bombs; the act of throwing bombs into a town, fort or ship.

Bombardo

BOMB'ARDO, noun A musical instrument of the wind kind, much like the bassoon, and used as a base to the hautboy.

Bombasin

BOMBASIN, noun s as z. A name given to two sorts of stuffs, one of silk, the other crossed of cotton.

Bombast

BOM'BAST, noun Originally a stuff of soft loose texture, used to swell garments. Hence, high sounding words; an inflated style; fustian; a serious attempt, by strained description, to raise a low or familiar subject beyond its rank, which, instead of being sublime, never fails to be ridiculous.

BOM'BAST, adjective High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.

Bombastic

BOMBAS'TIC, adjective Swelled; high sounding; bombast.

Bombastry

BOM'BASTRY, noun Swelling words without much meaning; fustian.

BOMB'-CHEST, noun [bomb and chest.] A chest filled with bombs or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to make destruction by its displosion.

Bombiat

BOM'BIAT, noun A salt formed by the bombic acid and any base saturated.

Bombic

BOM'BIC, adjective [Latin bombyx, a silk worm.]

Pertaining to the silk worm; as bombic acid.

Bombilation

BOMBILA'TION, noun [Latin bombilo.] Sound; report; noise. [Little used.]

BOMB'-KETCH

BOMB'-VESSEL, noun A small ship or vessel, constructed for throwing bombs into a fortress from the sea, and built remarkably strong, in order to sustain the shocks produced by the discharge of the mortars. They generally are rigged as ketches.

Bombycinous

BOMBYC'INOUS, adjective [Latin bombycinus, from bombyx, a silk worm.]

1. Silken; made of silk.

2. Being of the color of the silk worm; transparent, with a yellow tint.

Bon-Chretien

BON-CHRETIEN, noun A species of pear.

Bona-Fide

BO'NA-FIDE, [Latin] With good faith; without fraud or deception.

Bona-Roba

BONA-ROBA, noun A showy wanton.

Bonair

BONA'IR, adjective [Latin bonus.] Complaisant; yielding. [Not used.]

Bonasus

BONA'SUS, noun [Latin] A species of Bos, or wild ox, with a long mane; a native of Asia and Africa. It is of the size of a bull.

Bond

BOND, noun

1. Anything that binds, as a cord, a chain, a rope; a band.

2. Ligament; that which holds things together.

3. Union; connection; a binding.

Let walls be so constructed as to make a good bond

4. In the plural, chains; imprisonment; captivity.

He hath done nothing worthy of death or of bonds. Acts.

5. Cause of union; cement which unites; link of connection; as the bonds of affection.

Charity is the bond of perfectness. Colossians 3:11

6. An obligation imposing a moral duty, as by a vow, or promise, by law or other means.

7. In law, an obligation or deed 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, 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.

BOND, adjective [for bound.] In a state of servitude, or slavery; captive.

Whether we be jews or Gentiles; whether we be bond or free. 1 Corinthians 12:13.

BOND, verb transitive To give bond for; as for duties or customs at a custom house; to secure payment of, by giving a bond

On their reshipment and exportation, official clearances were given, in which no mention was made that the cargo consisted of bonded or debentured goods.

In the U.States, it is applied to the goods on which the customs arise, and to the duties secured by bond

Bondage

BOND'AGE, noun Slavery or involuntary servitude; captivity; imprisonment; restraint of a person's liberty by compulsion. In ancient English law, villenage.

1. Obligation; tie of duty.

He must resolve not to be brought under the bondage of observing oaths.

2. In scripture, spiritual subjection to sin and corrupt passions, or to the yoke of the ceremonial law; servile fear. Hebrews 2:15. Galatians 2:4. Romans 8:15.

Bonded

BOND'ED, participle passive Secured by bond, as duties. bonded goods are those for the duties on which bonds are given at the custom house.

Bondmaid

BOND'MAID, noun [bond and maid.] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, in opposition to a hired servant.

Bondman

BOND'MAN, noun [bond and man.] A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. In old English law, a villain, or tenant in villenage.

Bondservant

BOND'SERVANT, noun [bond and servant.] A slave; one who is subjected to the authority of another, or whose person and liberty are restrained.

Bondservice

BOND'SERVICE, noun [bond and service.] The condition of a bond-servant; slavery.

Bondslave

BOND'SLAVE, noun [bond and slave.] A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

Bondsman

BONDS'MAN, noun [bond and man.] A slave.

1. A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

Bondswoman

BONDS'WOMAN,

BOND'-WOMAN, noun [bond and woman.] A woman slave.

Bonduc

BON'DUC, noun A species of Guilandina, or nickar tree, the yellow nickar, a climbing plant, a native of the West Indies, bearing a pod containing two hard seeds of the size of a child's marble.

Bone

BONE, noun

1. A firm hard substance of a dull white color, composing some part of the frame of an animal body. The bones of an animal support all the softer parts, as the flesh and vessels. They vary in texture in different bones, and in different parts of the same bone The long bones are compact in their middle portion, with a central cavity occupied by a network of plates and fibers, and cellular or spongy at the extremities. The flat bones are compact externally, and cellular internally. The bones in a fetus are soft and cartilaginous, but they gradually harden with age. The ends of the long bones are larger than the middle, which renders the articulations more firm, and in the fetus are distinct portions, called epiphyses. Bones are supplied with blood vessels, and in the fetus, or in a diseased state, are very vascular. They are probably also furnished with nerves and absorbents, though less easily detected in a sound state. They are covered with a thin, strong membrane, called the periosteum, which, together with the bones, has very little sensibility in a sound state, but when inflamed, is extremely sensible. Their cells and cavities are occupied by a fatty substance, called the medulla or marrow. They consist of earthy matter, rather more than half, gelatin, one sixteenth, and cartilage, about one third of the whole. The earthy matter gives them their solidity, and consists of phosphate of lime, with a small portion of carbonate of lime and phosphate of magnesia.

2. A piece of bone with fragments of meat adhering to it.

To be upon the bones, is to attack. [Little used, and vulgar.]

To make no bones, is to make no scruple; a metaphor taken from a dog who greedily swallows meat that has no bones.

BONEs, a sort of bobbins, made of trotter bones, for weaving lace; also dice.

BONE, verb transitive To take out bones from the flesh, as in cookery.

1. To put whale bone into stays.

Bone-Ace

BO'NE-ACE, noun [bone and ace.] A game at cards, in which he who has the highest card turned up to him, wins the bone, that is, one half the state.

Bone-Ache

BO'NE-ACHE, noun Pain in the bones.

Bone-Set

BO'NE-SET, verb transitive [bone and set.] To set a dislocated bone; to unite broken bones.

BO'NE-SET, noun A plant, the thorough-wort, a species of Eupatorium.

Bone-Setter

BO'NE-SETTER, noun [bone and set.] One whose occupation is to set, and restore broken and dislocated bones.

Bone-Setting

BO'NE-SETTING, noun That branch of surgery which consists in replacing broken and luxated bones; the practice of setting bones.

Bone-Spavin

BO'NE-SPAVIN, noun [bone and spavin.] A bony excrescence, or hard swelling, on the inside of the hock of a horse's leg; usually cured by blistering and firing, or caustic blisters.

Boned

BO'NED, participle passive Deprived of bones, as in cookery.

BO'NED adjective Having bones; used in composition; as high-boned; strong-boned.

Bonelacae

BO'NELACAE, noun [bone and lace.] A lace made of linen thread, so called because made with bobbins of bone, or for its stiffness.

Boneless

BO'NELESS, adjective Without bones; wanting bones; as boneless gums.

Bonetta

BONET'TA, noun A sea fish.

Bonfire

BON'FIRE, noun A fire made as an expression of public joy and exultation.

Bongrace

BON'GRACE, noun A covering for the forehead.

Bonify

BO'NIFY, verb transitive To convert into good. [Not used.]

Bonito

BONITO, noun A fish of the tunny kind, growing to the length of three feet, and found on the American coast, and in the tropical climates. It has a greenish back, and a white silvery belly.

Bonmot

BON'MOT, noun A jest; a witty repartee. This word is not anglicized, and may be pronounced bomo.

Bonnet

BON'NET, noun

1. A covering for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. The word, as now used, signifies a cover for the head, worn by females, close at the sides, and projecting over the forehead.

2. In fortification, a small work with two faces, having only a parapet, with two rows of palisades about 10 or 12 feet distant. Generally it is raised above the salient angle of the counterscarp, and communicates with the covered way.

Bonnet a pretre, or priest's bonnet is an outwork, having at the head three salient angles and two inwards.

3. In sea language, an addition to sail, or an additional part laced to the foot of a sail, in small vessels, and in moderate winds.

Bonnet-Pepper

BON'NET-PEPPER, noun A species of Capsicum, or guinea pepper.

Bonnibel

BON'NIBEL, noun A handsome girl.

Bonnilass

BON'NILASS, noun A beautiful girl.

Bonnily

BON'NILY, adverb Gayly; handsomely; plumply.

Bonniness

BON'NINESS, noun Gayety; handsomeness; plumpness. [Little used.]

Bonny

BON'NY, adjective [Latin bonus.]

1. Handsome; beautiful.

Till bonny Susan sped across the plain.

2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.

Blithe and bonny

3. In familiar language, plump, as plump and healthful persons are most inclined to mirth.

[This word is much used in Scotland.]

BON'NY, noun Among miners, a bed of ore, differing from a squat in being round, whereas a squat is flat; or a distinct bed of ore, that communicates with no vein.

Bonny-Clabber

BON'NY-CLABBER, noun A word used in Ireland for sour buttermilk.

It is used, in America, for any milk that is turned or become thick in the process of souring, and applied only to that part which is thick.

Bonten

BON'TEN, noun A narrow woolen stuff.

BONUM MAGUM, [L] A species of plum.

Bonus

BONUS, noun [Latin] A premium given for a charter or other privilege granted to a company.

Bony

BO'NY, adjective [from bone.] Consisting of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

1. Having large or prominent bones; stout; strong.