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Bonze

BON'ZE, noun bon'zy. An Indian priest; a name used in China, Tunkin and the neighboring countries. In China, the Bonzes are the priests of the Fohists, or sect of Fohi. They are distinguished from the laity by their dress. In Japan, they are gentlemen of family. In Tunkin, every pagoda has at least two bonzes belonging to it, and some have thirty or forty. In China, the number of bonzes is estimated at fifty thousand, and they are represented as idle dissolute men.

Booby

BOO'BY, noun

1. A dunce; a stupid fellow; a lubber; one void of wisdom, or intellect.

2. A fowl of the pelican genus, of a brown and white color, much varied in different individuals. This fowl is found among the Bahama isles, feeds upon fish and lays its eggs on the bare rocks. It has a joint in the upper mandible, by which it can raise it without opening the mouth.

Book

BOOK, noun [Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.]

A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts.

1. A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume.

2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

In books, in kind remembrance; in favor.

I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.

Without book by memory; without reading; without notes; as, a sermon was delivered without book This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority; as, a man asserts without book

BOOK, verb transitive To enter, write or register in a book

Book-Account

BOOK-ACCOUNT', noun [book and account.] An account or register of debt or credit in a book.

Book-Keeping

BOOK'-KEEPING, noun [book and keep.] The art of recording mercantile transactions in a regular and systematic manner; the art of keeping accounts in such a manner, that a man may know the true state of his business and property, or of his debts and credits, by an inspection of his books.

The books for this purpose are, 1. a Waste Book, or blotter, in which are registered all accounts or transactions in the order in which they take place. 2. The Journal, which contains the accounts transferred from the waste book, in the same order, but expressed in a technical style; 3. the Leger, in which articles of the same kind are collected together, from the journal, and arranged under proper titles.

In addition to these, several others are used; as cash-book; book of charges of merchandize; book of house-expenses; invoice-book; sales-book; bill-book; receipt-book; letter-book; pocket-book; the use of which may be understood from the names.

Bookbinder

BOOK'BINDER, noun [book and bind.] One whose occupation is to bind books.

Bookbinding

BOOK'BINDING, noun The art or practice of binding books; or of sewing

the sheets, and covering them with leather or other material.

Booked

BOOK'ED, participle passive Written in a book; registered.

Bookful

BOOK'FUL, adjective [book and full.] Full of notions gleaned from books; crowded with undigested learning.

Booking

BOOK'ING, participle present tense Registering in a book.

Bookish

BOOK'ISH, adjective Given to reading; fond of study; more acquainted with books than with men.

Bookishly

BOOK'ISHLY, adverb In the way of being addicted to books or much reading.

Bookishness

BOOK'ISHNESS, noun Addictedness to books; fondness for study.

BOOK'-KEEPER, noun [book and keep.] One who keeps accounts, or the accounts of another; the officer who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in a public office.

Bookland

BOOK'LAND

BOOK'LEARNED, adjective [book and learn.] Versed in books; acquainted with books and literature; a term sometimes implying an ignorance of men, or of the common concerns of life.

Booklearned

BOOK'LEARNED, a. [book and learn.] Versed in books; acquainted with books and literature; a term sometimes implying an ignorance of men, or of the common concerns of life.

Booklearning

BOOK'LEARNING, noun Learning acquired by reading; acquaintance with books and literature; sometimes implying want of practical knowledge.

Bookless

BOOK'LESS, adjective [book and less.] Without books; unlearned.

Bookmaking

BOOK'MAKING, noun The practice of writing and publishing books.

Bookman

BOOK'MAN, noun [book and man.] A man whose profession is the study of books.

Bookmate

BOOK'MATE, noun [book and mate.] A school-fellow.

Bookoath

BOOK'OATH, noun The oath made on the book, or Bible.

Bookseller

BOOK'SELLER, noun [book and sell.] One whose occupation is to see books.

Bookstore

BOOKSTORE, noun A shop where books are sold.

Bookworm

BOOK'WORM, noun [book and worm.] A worm or mite that eats holes in books.

1. A student closely attached to books, or addicted to study; also, a reader without judgment.

Booley

BOO'LEY, noun In Ireland, one who has not settled habitation, but wanders from place to place, with his flocks and herds, living on their milk, like the Tartars.

Boom

BOOM, noun A long pole or spar, run out from various parts of a ship, or other vessel, for the purpose of extending the bottom of particular sails; as the jib-boom, studding-sail boom main-boom, square-sail boom etc.

1. A strong iron chain, fastened to spars, and extended across a river, or the mouth of a harbor, to prevent an enemy's ships from passing.

2. A pole set up as a mark to direct seamen how to keep the channel, in shallow water.

BOOM, verb intransitive

1. In marine language, to rush with violence, as a ship under a press of sail.

2. To swell; to roll and roar, as waves.

The hoarse waves booming to the ocean shore.

3. To cry as the bittern.

The Dutch use bom for the sound of an empty barrel, and bommen is to drum.

Boon

BOON, noun [Latin bonus.]

1. A gift; a grant; a benefaction; a present; a favor granted.

2. A prayer, or petition.

BOON, adjective [Latin bonus.] Gay; merry; kind; bountiful; as a boon companion.

Boops

BO'OPS, noun The pike-headed whale, with a double pipe in its snout, and a hard horny ridge on its back; so names from its sharp pointed nose.

Boor

BOOR, noun A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a plowman; a clown; hence, one who is rude in manners, and illiterate.

Boorish

BOOR'ISH, adjective Clownish; rustic; awkward in manners, and illiterate.

Boorishly

BOOR'ISHLY, adverb In a clownish manner.

Boorishness

BOOR'ISHNESS, noun Clownishness; rusticity, coarseness of manners.

Boose

BOOSE, noun [Heb. a stall or crib.] A stall or inclosure for an ox, cow or other cattle. Not used or local.]

BOOSE

Boost

BOOST, verb transitive To lift or raise by pushing; to push up. [A common vulgar wood in noun England.]

Boosy

BOO'SY, adjective boo'zy. A little intoxicated; merry with liquor. [Vulgar.]

Boot

BOOT, verb transitive [Eng. but. The primary sense of the root is to advance, or carry forward.]

1. To profit; to advantage

It shall not boot them.

2. To enrich; to benefit.

I will boot thee.

BOOT, noun Profit; gain; advantage; that which is given to make the exchange equal, or to supply the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

1. To boot in addition to; over and above; besides; a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered; as, I will give my house for yours, with one hundred dollars to boot

2. Spoil; plunder. [See Booty.]

BOOT, noun

1. A covering for the leg, made of leather, and united with a shoe. This garment was originally intended for horsemen, but is now generally worn by gentlemen on foot. The different sorts are fishing-boots, worn in water; hunting-boots, a thinner kind for sportsmen; jack-boots, a strong kind for horsemen; and half-boots.

2. A kind or rack for the leg, formerly used to torture criminals. This was made of boards bound fast to the legs by cords; or a boot or buskin, made wet and drawn upon the legs and then dried by the fire, so as to contract and squeeze the legs.

3. A box covered with leather in the fore part of a coach. Also, an apron or leathern cover for a gig or chair, to defend persons from rain and mud. This latter application is local and improper.

BOOT, verb transitive To put on boots.

Bootcatcher

BOOT'CATCHER, noun [boot and catch.] The person at an inn whose business is to pull off boots.

Booted

BOOT'ED, participle passive Having boots on.

Bootee

BOOTEE', noun A word sometimes used for a half or short boot.

Bootes

BOO'TES, noun A northern constellation; consisting, according to Flamstead's catalogue, of fifty-four stars.

Booth

BOOTH, noun [Heb. beth, a house or booth a nest for birds.]

A house or shed built of boards, boughs of trees, or other slight materials, for a temporary residence.

BOOT'-HOSE, noun [boot and hose.] Stocking-hose or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

Bootleg

BOOT'LEG, noun [boot and leg.] Leather cutout for the leg of a boot.

Bootless

BOOT'LESS, adjective [from boot.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

Bootlessly

BOOT'LESSLY, adverb Without use or profit.

BOOT'-TOPPING, noun [boot and top.] The operation of cleansing a ship's bottom, near the surface of the water, by scraping off the grass, slime, shells, etc. and daubing it with a mixture of tallow, sulphur and rosin.

BOOT'-TREE, or BOOT'-LAST, noun An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.

Booty

BOOT'Y, noun

1. Spoil taken from an enemy in war; plunder; pillage.

2. That which is seized by violence and robbery.

To play booty is to play dishonestly with an intent to lose.

Booze

BOOZE, verb intransitive booz. To drink freely; to tope; to guzzle. [A vulgar word.]

Bopeep

BOPEE'P, noun [bo, an exclamation, and peep.] The act of looking out or from behind something and drawing back, as children in play, for the purpose of frightening each other.

Bor

BOR, Sav. bur, signifies a chamber or a cottage.

BUR, noun

1. A rough prickly covering of the seeds of certain plants, as of the chestnut, and burdock.

2. A broad ring of iron behind the place for the hand on a spear, used in tilting.

Borable

BO'RABLE, adjective [See Bore.] That may be bored. [Little used.]

Borachio

BORACH'IO, noun A drunkard.

1. A bottle or cask. [Not used.]

Boracic

BORAC'IC, adjective [See Borax.] Pertaining to or produced from borax.

Boracic acid, a compound of a peculiar base, boron, with oxygen. It is generally obtained from borax, by adding sulfuric acid. It is also found native, in certain mineral springs in Italy.

Boracite

BO'RACITE, noun Borate of magnesia; magnesian earth combined with boracic acid. It is generally of a cubic form, and remarkable for its electrical properties when heated.

Boracited

BO'RACITED, adjective Combined with boracic acid.

BO'RACOUS ACID, noun The base of boracic acid, partially saturated with oxygen.

Borage

BORAGE, noun bur'rage. A plant of the genus Borago.

Borate

BO'RATE, noun A salt formed by a combination of boracic acid with any base saturated.

Borax

BO'RAX, noun Sub-borate of soda; a salt formed by the combination of boracic acid with the marine alkali or soda. It is brought from the East Indies, where it is said to be found at the bottom or on the margin of certain lakes, particularly in Thibet. It is said to be artificially prepared in Persia, like niter. It comes in three states. 1. Crude borax tinkal, or chrysocolla, from Persia, in greenish masses of a greasy feel, or in opake crystals. 2. borax of China, somewhat purer, in small plates or masses, irregularly crystallized, and of a dirty white. 3. Dutch or purified borax in portions of transparent crystals, which is the kind generally used. It is an excellent flux in docimastic operations, a styptic in medicine, and useful in soldering metals.

Bord-Halfpenny

BORD-HALFPENNY, noun Money paid for setting up boards or a stall in market.

Bord-Land

BORD-LAND, noun [bord and land.] See Board.]

In old law, the demain land which a lord kept in his hands for the maintenance of his bord, board, or table.

Bord-Lode

BORD-LODE

BORD-MAN, noun [bord and man.] A tenant of bord-land, who supplied his lord with provisions.

BORD'-RAGING, noun An incursion upon the borders of a country.

BORD'-SERVICE, noun [board and service.] The tenure by which bord-land was held, which was the payment of a certain quantity of provisions to the lord. In lieu of this, the tenant now pays six pence an acre.

Bord-Man

BORD-MAN, n. [bord and man.] A tenant of bord-land, who supplied his lord with provisions.

Bordage

BORDAGE, noun [See Bordland.]

Bordel

BORD'EL

BORD'ELLER, noun The keeper of a brothel.

Bordeller

BORD'ELLER, n. The keeper of a brothel.

Bordello

BORDEL'LO, noun [This is the Eng. brothel.] A brothel; a bawdy-house; a house devoted to prostitution.

Border

BORD'ER, noun The outer edge of any thing; the extreme part or surrounding line; the confine or exterior limit of a country, or of any region or tract of land; the exterior part or edge of a garment, or of the corol of plants; the rim or brim of a vessel, but not often applied to vessels; the exterior part of a garden, and hence a bank raised at the side of a garden, for the cultivation of flowers, and a row of plants; in short, the outer part or edge of things too numerous to be specified.

BORD'ER, verb intransitive To confine; to touch at the edge, side or end; to be contiguous or adjacent; with on or upon; as, Connecticut on the north borders on or upon Massachusetts.

1. To approach near to.

Wit, which borders upon profaneness, deserves to be branded as folly.

BORD'ER, verb transitive To make a border; to adorn with a border of ornaments; as, to border a garment or a garden.

1. To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to.

Sheba and Raamah border the Persian gulf.

2. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Not used.]

Bordered

BORD'ERED, participle passive Adorned or furnished with a border.

Borderer

BORD'ERER, noun 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.

Bordering

BORD'ERING, participle present tense Lying adjacent to; forming a border.

Bordure

BORD'URE, noun In heraldry, a tract or compass of metal, color or fur, within the escutcheon, and around it.

Bore

BORE, verb transitive [Latin foro and perforo, to bore to perforate; Gr. to pierce or transfix; also, to pass over, in which sense it coincides with ferry; Latin veru, from thrusting or piercing, coincide in elements with this root.

1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow; ; to form a round hole; as, to bore a cannon.

2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm.

3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd.

BORE, verb intransitive To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that turns; as, this timber does not bore well or is hard to bore

1. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well.

2. To push forward toward a certain point.

Boring to the west.

3. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground.

4. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums, through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine.

BORE, noun The hole made by boring. Hence, the cavity or hollow of a gun, cannon, pistol or other fire-arm; the caliber; whether formed by boring or not.

1. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble.

BORE, noun A tide, swelling above another tide.

A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait.

BORE, preterit tense of bear. [See Bear.]

Bore-Cole

BO'RE-COLE, noun A species of Brassica or cabbage.

Boreal

BO'REAL, adjective [Latin borealis. See Boreas.] Northern; pertaining to the north or the north wind.

Boreas

BO'REAS, noun [Latin boreas; Gr. the north wind.] The northern wind; a cold northerly wind.

Bored

BO'RED, participle passive Perforated by an auger or other turning instrument; made hollow.

Boree

BOREE', noun A certain dance, or movement in common time, of four crotchets in a bar; always beginning in the last quaver or last crotchet of the measure.

Borer

BO'RER, noun One who bores; also an instrument to make holes with by turning.

1. Terebella, the piercer, a genus of sea worms, that pierce wood.

Born

BORN, participle passive of bear. baurn. Brought forth, as an animal. A very useful distinction is observed by good authors, who, in the sense of produced or brought forth, write this word born; but in the sense of carried, write it borne. This difference of orthography renders obvious the difference of pronunciation.

1. To be born is to be produced or brought into life. 'Man is born to trouble.' A man born a prince or a beggar. It is followed by of, before the mother or ancestors.

Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. Job 14:1.

2. To be born or born again, is to be regenerated and renewed; to receive spiritual life. John 3:3.

Borne

BORNE, participle passive of bear. Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed.

BORNE, noun The more correct orthography of bourn, a limit or boundary. [See Bourn.]

Boron

BO'RON, noun The undecomposable base of boracic acid.

Borough

BOROUGH, noun bur'ro. [Latin parcus, saving.] Originally, a fortified city or town; hence a hill, for hills were selected for places of defense. But in later times, the term city was substituted to denote an episcopal town, in which was the see of a bishop, and that of borough was retained for the rest. At present, the name is given appropriately to such towns and villages as send representatives or burgesses to Parliament. Some boroughs are incorporated, other are not.

BOROUGH, noun bur'ro. In Saxon times, a main pledge, or association of men, who were sureties or free pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other, and if any offense was committed in their district, they were bound to have the offender forthcoming. The association of ten men was called a tithing, or decenary; the presiding man was called the tithing man, or head-borough; or in some places, borsholder, borough's elder. This society was called also friburg, free burg, frank pledge. Ten tithings formed a hundred, consisting of that number of sureties, and this denomination is still given to the districts, comprehended in the association. The term seems to have been used both for the society and for each surety. The word main, hand, which is attached to this society, or their mutual assurance, indicates that the agreement was ratified by shaking hands.

Some writers have suggested that the application of this word to towns sprung from these associations, and of course was posterior to them in time. But the word was used for a town or castle in other nations, and in Asia, doubtless long before the origin of the frank pledge.

In Connecticut, this word, borough is used for a town or a part of a town, or a village, incorporated with certain privileges, distinct from those of other towns and of cities; as the borough of Bridgeport.

In Scotland, a borough is a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the Sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction.

BOROUGHs are erected to be held of the sovereign, as is generally the case of royal boroughs; or of the superior of the lands included, as in the case of boroughs of regality and barony. Royal boroughs are generally erected for the advantage of trade.

BOROUGHs English, is a customary descent of lands and tenements to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or if the owner leaves no son, to the youngest brother.

BOROUGH English, is a customary descent of lands and tenements to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or if the owner leaves no son, to the youngest brother.

BOROUGH-head, the same as head-borough, the chief of a borough

Borough-Holder

BOROUGH-HOLDER, noun A head-borough; a borsholder.

Borough-Master

BOROUGH-MASTER, noun The mayor, governor or baliff of a borough.

Borrachio

BORRACH'IO, noun The caoutchouc, India rubber, or elastic gum. [See caoutchouc.]

Borrelists

BOR'RELISTS, noun In church history, a sect of Christians in Holland, so called from Borrel, their founder, who reject the use of the sacraments, public prayer and all external worship. They lead a very austere life.

Borrow

BOR'ROW, verb transitive

1. To take from another by request and consent, with a view to use the thing taken for a time, and return it, or if the thing taken is to be consumed or transferred in the use, then to return an equivalent in kind; as, to borrow a book, a sum of money, or a loaf of bread. It is opposed to lend.

2. To take from another, for one's own use; to copy or select from the writings of another author; as, to borrow a passage from a printed book; to borrow a title.

3. To take or adopt for one's own use, sentiments, principles, doctrines and the like; as, to borrow instruction.

4. To take for use something that belongs to another; to assume, copy or imitate; as, to borrow a shape; to borrow the manners of another, or his style of writing.

BOR'ROW, noun A borrowing; the act of borrowing. [Not used.]

But of your royal presence I'll adventure.

The borrow of a week.

Borrowed

BOR'ROWED, participle passive Taken by consent of another, to be returned or its equivalent in kind; copies; assumed.

Borrower

BOR'ROWER, noun One who borrows; opposed to lender. [See the verb.]

1. One who takes what belongs to another to use as one's own.

Borrowing

BOR'ROWING, participle present tense Taking by consent to use and return, or to return its equivalent; taking what belongs to another to use as one's own; copying; assuming; imitating.

BOR'ROWING, noun The act of borrowing [See the verb.]

Borsholder

BORS'HOLDER, noun [A contraction of burh's ealdor, borough's elder, the elder or chief of a borough.]

The head or chief of a tithing or burg of ten men; ; the head-borough.

Bos

BOS, noun [Latin] In zoology, the technical name of a genus of quadrupeds. The characters are, the horns are hollow within and turned outward in the form of crescents; there are eight fore teeth in the under jaw, but none in the upper; there are no dog teeth. The species are, the Taurus or common ox, the Urus, aurochs or bison of Europe, the Bison or buffalo of North America, the Bubalus or proper buffalo of the Eastern continent, the Caffer or Cape buffalo, the Grunniens or yak of Thibet, and the Moschatus or musk ox of Arctic America.

Boscage

BOSC'AGE, noun [Eng.bush.]

1. Wood; under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket.

2. In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees.

3. With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood.

Boschas

BOS'CHAS, noun The common wild duck, or mallard, belonging to the genus Anas.

Bosh

BOSH, noun Outline; figure.

Bosket

BOSK'ET

BOSK'Y, adjective [See Boscage.] Woody; covered with thickets.

Bosky

BOSK'Y, a. [See Boscage.] Woody; covered with thickets.

Bosom

BO'SOM, noun s as z.

1. The breast of a human being and the parts adjacent.

2. The folds or covering of clothes about the breast.

Put thy hand in thy bosom Exodus 4:6.

3. Embrace, as with the arms; inclosure; compass; often implying friendship or affection; as, to live in the bosom of a church.

4. The breast, as inclosing the heart; or the interior of the breast, considered as the seat of the passions.

Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9.

Their soul was poured into their mother's bosom Lamentations 2:12.

5. The breast, or its interior, considered as a close place, the receptacle of secrets.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom Job 31:33.

6. Any inclosed place; the interior; as the bosom of the earth or of the deep.

7. The tender affections; kindness; favor; as the son of his bosom; the wife of thy bosom

He shall carry the lambs in his bosom Isaiah 40:11.

8. The arms, or embrace of the arms. Psalms 129:7.

9. Inclination; desire. [Not used.]

Bosom, in composition, implies intimacy, affection and confidence; as a bosom-friend, an intimate or confidential friend; bosom-lover, bosom-interest, bosom-secret, etc. In such phrases, bosom may be considered as an attribute equivalent to intimate, confidential, dear.

BO'SOM, verb transitive To inclose in the bosom; to keep with care.

Bosom up my counsel.

1. To conceal; to hide from view.

To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines.

Bosomed

BO'SOMED, participle passive Inclosed in the breast; concealed.

Boson

BO'SON, noun A boatswain; a popular, but corrupt pronunciation.

The merry bosom.

Bosporian

BOSPO'RIAN, adjective [from Bosporus.] Pertaining to a bosporus, a strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a sea and a lake.

The Alans forced the bosporian kings to pay them tribute, and exterminated the Taurians.

Bosporus

BOS'PORUS, noun [Gr. an ox, and a passage.]

A narrow sea or a strait, between two seas or between a sea and a lake, so called, it is supposed, as being an ox-passage, a strait over which an ox may swim. So our northern ancestors called a strait, a sound, that is, a swim. The term bosporus has been particularly applied to the strait between the Propontis and the Euxine, called the Thracian Bosporus; and to the strait of Caffa, called the Cimmerian bosporus which connects the Palus Maeotis or sea of Azof, with the Euxine.

Bosquet

BOS'QUET

BOSS, noun

1. A stud or knob; a protuberant ornament, of silver, ivory, or other material, used on bridles, harness, etc.

2. A protuberant part; a prominence; as the boss of a buckler.

3. A round or swelling body of any kind; as a boss of wood.

4. A water-conduit, in form of a tun-bellied figure.

Boss

BOSS, n. 1. A stud or knob; a protuberant ornament, of silver, ivory, or other material, used on bridles, harness, &c.2. A protuberant part; a prominence; as the boss of a buckler.3. A round or swelling body of any kind; as a boss of wood.4. A water-conduit, in form of a tun-bellied figure.

Bossage

BOSS'AGE, noun

1. A stone in a building which has a projecture, and is laid rough, to be afterwards carved into moldings, capitals, coats of arms, etc.

2. Rustic work, consisting of stones which advance beyond the naked or level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings; chiefly in the corners of edifices, and called rustic quoins. The cavities are sometimes round, sometimes beveled or in a diamond form, sometimes inclosed with a cavetto, and sometimes with a listel.

Bossed

BOSS'ED, participle passive Studded; ornamented with bosses.

Bossive

BOSS'IVE, adjective Crooked; deformed.

Bossy

BOSS'Y, adjective Containing a boss; ornamented with bosses.

His head reclining on his bossy shield.

Bostry-Chite

BOS'TRY-CHITE, noun A gem in the form of a lock of hair.

Bosvel

BOS'VEL, noun A plant, a species of crowfoot.

Bot

BOT. [See Bots.]

Botanic

BOTAN'IC

BOTAN'ICAL, adjective [See Botany.] Pertaining to botany; relating to plants in general; also, containing plants, as a botanic garden.

Botanical

BOTAN'ICAL, a. [See Botany.] Pertaining to botany; relating to plants in general; also, containing plants, as a botanic garden.

Botanically

BOTAN'ICALLY, adverb According to the system of botany.

Botanist

BOT'ANIST, noun One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants or vegetables, their structure, and generic and specific differences.

The botanist is he who can affix similar names to similar vegetables, and different names to different ones, so as to be intelligible to every one.

Botanize

BOT'ANIZE, verb intransitive To seek for plants; to investigate the vegetable kingdom; to study plants.

He could not obtain permission to botanize upon mount Sabber.

Botanology

BOTANOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a plant, and discourse.] A discourse upon plants.

Botanomancy

BOTANOM'ANCY, noun An ancient species of divination by means of plants, especially sage and fig leaves. Persons wrote their names and questions on leaves, which they exposed to the wind, and as many of the letters as remained in their places were taken up, and being joined together, contained an answer to the question.

Botany

BOTANY, noun [Gr. a plant.] That branch of natural history which treats of vegetables; a science which treats of the different plants, and of the distinguishing marks by which each individual species may be known from every other.

Or, botany is the science of the structure, functions, properties, habits and arrangement of plants, and of the technical characters by which they are distinguished.

Botargo

BOTAR'GO, noun A relishing sort of food, made of the roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean, as an incentive to drink.

Botch

BOTCH, noun [Eng.patch.]

1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection.

BOTCHes and blains must all his flesh imboss.

2. A patch, or the part of a garment patched or mended in a

clumsy manner; ill-finished work in mending.

3. That which resembles a botch; a part added clumsily; adventitious or ill-applied words.

If those words are not notorious botches, I am deceived.

BOTCH, verb transitive To mend or patch with a needle or awl, in a clumsy manner, as a garment; to mend or repair awkwardly, as a system of government.

1. To put together unsuitable, or unskillfully; to make use of unsuitable pieces.

For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.

2. To mark with botches.

Young Hylas botched with stains.

Botcher

BOTCH'ER, noun A clumsy workman at mending of old clothes, whether a tailor or cobbler.

Botchy

BOTCH'Y, adjective Marked with botches; full of botches.

Bote

BOTE, noun [The old orthography of boot, but retained in law, in composition.

1. In law, compensation; amends; satisfaction; as manbote, a compensation for a man slain. Also, payment of any kind.

2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as house-bote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house or for fuel, sometimes called fire-bote; so plow-bote, cart-bote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay-bote or hedge-bote, wood for hedges or fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.

Boteless

BO'TELESS, a In vain. [See Bootless.]

Botetto

BOTET'TO, noun A small thick fish of Mexico, about eight inches long, with a flat belly, and convex back. When taken out of the water it swells, and if kicked, will burst. Its liver is deadly poison.

Both

BOTH, adjective Two, considered as distinct from others or by themselves; the one and the other.

This word is often placed before the nouns with which it is connected.

He understands how to manage both public and private concerns.

It is often used as a substitute for nouns.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Genesis 21:27.

BOTH often represents two members of a sentence.

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

BOTH often pertains to adjectives or attributes, and in this case generally precedes them in construction; as, he endeavored to render commerce both disadvantageous and infamous.

Bother

BOTH'ER, the vulgar pronunciation of pother. [See Pother.]

Bothnian

BOTH'NIAN, adjective Pertaining to Bothnia, a province of Sweden, and to a gulf of the Baltic sea, which is so called from the province, which it penetrates. Pinkerton uses Bothnic, as a noun for the gulf, and Barlow uses bothnian in the same manner.

Bothnic

BOTH'NIC

BOTOCH'ED, participle passive Patched clumsily; mended unskillfully; marked with botches.

Botoched

BOTOCH'ED, pp. Patched clumsily; mended unskillfully; marked with botches.

Bototoe

BOTO'TOE, noun A bird of the parrot kind, of a fine blue color, found in the Philippine isles.

Botryoid

BO'TRYOID

BOTRYOI'DAL, adjective [Gr. a bunch of grapes, and form.]

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like grapes; as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small gloves.

Botryolite

BO'TRYOLITE, noun [Gr. supra, and stone.]

Literally, grape-stone. This mineral occurs in mammilliary or botryoidal concretions, in a bed of magnetic iron in gneiss, near Arendal in Norway. Its colors are pearl-gray, grayish or reddish white, and pale rose-red, and form concentric stripes.

Botryolite is a variety of siliceous borate of lime. It is found near the Passaic falls in New Jersey.

Bots

BOTS, noun Generally used in the plural.

A species of small worms found in the intestines of horses. They are the larvas of a species of OEstrus or gad-fly, which deposits its eggs on the tips of the hairs, generally of the fore-legs and mane, whence they are taken into the mouth and swallowed. This word is also applied to the larvas of other species of OEstrus, found under the hides of oxen, in the nostrils of sheep, etc.

Bottle

BOT'TLE, noun

1. A hollow vessel of glass, wood, leather or other material, with a narrow mouth, for holding and carrying liquors. The oriental nations use skins or leather for the conveyance of liquors; and of this kind are the bottles mentioned in scripture. 'Put new wine into bottles.' In Europe and America, glass is used for liquors of all kinds; and farmers use small cags or hollow vessels of wood. The small kinds of glass bottles are called vials or phials.

2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; but from the size of bottles used for wine, porter and cyder, a bottle is nearly a quart; as a bottle of wine or a porter.

3. A quantity of hay in a bundle; a bundle of hay.

BOT'TLE, verb transitive To put into bottles; as, to bottle wine or porter. This includes the stopping of the bottles with corks.

Bottle-Ale

BOT'TLE-ALE, noun Bottled ale.

Bottle-Companion

BOT'TLE-COMPANION

BOT'TLE-FLOWER, noun A plant, the cyanus, or blue bottle, a species of Centaurea.

Bottle-Friend

BOT'TLE-FRIEND , noun A friend or companion in drinking.

Bottle-Screw

BOT'TLE-SCREW, noun A screw to draw corks out of bottles.

Bottled

BOT'TLED, participle passive Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles.

1. Having a protuberant belly.

Bottling

BOT'TLING, participle present tense Putting into bottles.

BOT'TLING, noun The act of putting into bottles and corking.

Bottom

BOT'TOM, noun

1. The lowest part of any thing; as the bottom of a well, vat or ship; the bottom of a hill.

2. The ground under any body of water; as the bottom of the sea, of a river or lake.

3. The foundation or ground work of any thing, as of an edifice, or of any system or moral subject; the base, or that which supports any superstructure.

4. A low ground; a dale; a valley; applied in the U. States to the flat lands adjoining rivers, etc. It is so used in some parts of England.

5. The deepest part; that which is most remote from the view; as, let us examine this subject to the bottom

6. Bound; limit.

There is no bottom in my voluptuousness.

7. The utmost extent or depth of cavity, or of intellect, whether deep or shallow.

I do see the bottom of justice Shallow.

8. The foundation, considered as the cause, spring or origin; the first moving cause; as, a foreign prince is at the bottom of the confederacy.

9. A ship or vessel. Goods imported in foreign bottoms pay a higher duty, than those imported in our own. Hence, a state of hazard, chance or risk; but in this sense it is used chiefly or solely in the singular. We say, venture not too much in one bottom; that is, do not hazard too much at a single risk.

10. A ball of thread.

11. The bottom of a lane or alley, is the lowest end. This phrase supposed a declivity; but it is often used for the most remote part, when there is very little declivity.

12. The bottom of beer, or other liquor, is the grounds or dregs.

13. In the language of jockeys, stamina, native strength; as a horse of good bottom

BOT'TOM, verb transitive To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; followed by on; as, sound reasoning is bottomed on just premises.

1. To furnish with a seat or bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

2. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

BOT'TOM, verb intransitive To rest upon, as its ultimate support.

Find on what foundation a proposition bottoms.

Bottomed

BOT'TOMED, participle passive Furnished with a bottom; having a bottom

This word is often used in composition, as a flat-bottomed boat, in which case the compound becomes an adjective.

Bottoming

BOT'TOMING, participle present tense Founding; building upon; furnishing with a bottom.

Bottomless

BOT'TOMLESS, adjective Without a bottom; applied to water, caverns etc., it signified fathomless, whose bottom cannot be found by sounding; as a bottomless abyss or ocean.

Bottomry

BOT'TOMRY, noun [from bottom.] The act of borrowing money, and pledging the keel or bottom of the ship, that is, the ship itself, as security for the repayment of the money. The contract of bottomry is in the nature of a mortgage; the owner of a ship borrowing money to enable him to carry on a voyage, and pledging the ship as security for the money. If the ship is lost, 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 exceed the legal rate of interest. The tackle of the ship also is answerable for the debt, as well as the person of the borrower. When a loan is made upon the goods shipped, the borrower is said to take up money at respondentia, as he is bound personally to answer the contract.

Bottony

BOT'TONY, noun [from the same root as bud, button.]

In heraldry, a cross bottony terminates at each end in three buds, knots or buttons, resembling in some measure the three-leaved grass.

Bouchet

BOUCHET', noun A sort of pear.

Boud

BOUD, noun An insect that breeds in malt or other grain; called also a weevil.

Bouge

BOUGE, verb intransitive booj. To swell out. [Little used.]

BOUGE, noun Provisions. [Not in use.]

Bough

BOUGH, noun bou. The branch of a tree; applied to a branch of size, not to a small shoot.

Boughhty

BOUGHHT'Y, adjective baw'ty. Bending.

Bought

BOUGHT, bast, preterit tense and participle passive of buy. [See Buy.]

BOUGHT, noun bawt.

1. A twist; a link; a knot; a flexure, or bend.

2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.

Bougie

BOUGIE, noun boogee'.

In Surgery, a long slender instrument, that is introduced through the urethra into the bladder, to remove obstructions. It is usually made of slips of waxed linen, coiled into a slightly conical form by rolling them on any hard smooth surface. It is also made of catgut, elastic gum and metal; but those of waved linen are generally preferred.

Bouillon

BOUILLON, noun Broth; soup.

Boulder-Wall

BOULDER-WALL, noun [rather bowlder-wall. See Bowlder.]

A wall built of round flints or pebbles laid in a strong mortar, used where the sea has a beach cast up, or where there is a plenty of flints.

Boulet

BOULET', noun [from the root of ball, or bowl.]

In the manege, a horse is so called, when the fetlock or pastern joint bends forward, and out of its natural position.

Boult

BOULT, an incorrect orthography. [See Bolt.]

Boultin

BOULTIN, noun [from the root of bolt.]

In architecture, a molding, the convexity of which is just one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the plinth in the Tuscan and Doric capital.

Bounce

BOUNCE, verb intransitive

1. To leap or spring; to fly or rush out suddenly.

Out bounced the mastiff.

2. To spring or leap against any thing, so as to rebound; to beat or thump by a spring.

Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.

3. To beat hard, or thump, so as to make a sudden noise.

Another bounced as hard as he could knock.

4. To boast or bully; used in familiar speech.

5. To be bold or strong.

BOUNCE, noun A heavy blow, thrust or thump with a large solid body.

The bounce burst open the door.

1. A loud heavy sound, as by an explosion.

2. A boast; a threat; in low language.

3. A fish; a species of squalus or shark.

Bouncer

BOUN'CER, noun A boaster; a bully; in familiar language.

Bouncing

BOUN'CING, participle present tense Leaping; bounding with violence, as a heavy body; springing out; thumping with a loud noise; boasting; moving with force, as a heavy bounding body.

BOUN'CING, adjective Stout; strong; large and heavy; a customary sense in the United States; as a bouncing lass.

Bouncingly

BOUN'CINGLY, adverb Boastingly.