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Brute

BRUTE, adjective [Latin brutus, senseless, irrational.]

1. Senseless; unconscious; as the brute earth.

2. Irrational; ferine; as a brute beast.

3. Bestial; in common with beasts; as brute violence.

4. Rough; uncivilized; insensible; as a brute philosopher.

BRUTE, noun A beast; any animal destitute of reason, and of course the word comprehends all animals except man, but is applied mostly to the larger beasts.

1. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; a low bred, unfeeling man.

BRUTE, verb transitive for bruit, to report. [Not used.]

Brutely

BRU'TELY, adverb In a rude manner.

Bruteness

BRU'TENESS, noun Brutality.

Brutify

BRU'TIFY, verb transitive To make a person a brute; to make senseless, stupid or unfeeling.

Brutish

BRU'TISH, adjective Like a brute or beast; as a brutish form.

1. Insensible; stupid; as brutish men.

2. Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal.

3. Gross; carnal; bestial.

4. Ignorant; uncivilized; untaught.

Brutishly

BRU'TISHLY, adverb In the manner of a brute; grossly; irrationally; stupidly; savagely.

Brutishness

BRU'TISHNESS, noun Stupidity; insensibility; brutality; savageness; the qualities of a brute.

Brutism

BRUTISM, noun The nature or characteristic qualitites or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity or beastly vulgarity.

Bryony

BRY'ONY, noun [Latin bryonia.] White jalap; a genus of plants of several species. The root of the rough or white bryony is a strong irritating cathartic.

Black-bryony is a genus of plants, called Tamus.

Bub

BUB, noun A cant word for strong malt liquor.

BUB, verb transitive To throw out in bubbles. [Not used.]

Bubble

BUB'BLE, noun

1. A small bladder or vesicle of water or other fluid inflated with air.

2. Any thing that wants firmness or solidity; a vain project; that which is more specious than real. Hence, a false show; a cheat or fraud.

3. A delusive scheme of speculation; an empty project to raise money or imaginary grounds; as the South Sea bubble

4. A person deceived by an empty project.

BUB'BLE, verb intransitive To rise in bubbles, as liquors when boiling or agitated.

1. To run with a gurgling noise; as a bubbling stream.

BUB'BLE, verb transitive To cheat; to deceive or impose on.

Bubbler

BUB'BLER, noun One who cheats.

Bubby

BUB'BY, noun [from the same root as bubble and bubo.] A woman's breast.

Bubo

BU'BO, noun [Latin bubo a swelling.] A tumor or abscess with inflammation, which rises in certain glandular parts of the body, as in the groin, or armpit.

Bubonocele

BU'BONOCELE, noun [Gr.the groin, and a tumor.] Hernia inguinalis, or inguinal rupture; a tumor in the groin, formed by a prolapsus of the intestines or omentum or both, through the processes of the peritoneum and rings of the abdominal muscles.

Bubukle

BU'BUKLE, noun A red pimple. [Not used.]

Bubulca

BUBUL'CA, noun A flat fresh-water fish, of a circular form and a silvery color.

Bucaneer

BUCANEE'R,

BUCANIE'R, noun Primarily, a buccaneer is said to one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. It was afterwards applied to the piratical adventurers, English and French, who combined to make depredations on the Spaniards in America.

Bucanier

BUCANIE'R, n. Primarily, a buccaneer is said to one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Haiti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. It was afterwards applied to the piratical adventurers, English and French, who combined to make depredations on the Spaniards in America.

Bucao

BUCA'O, noun A species of owl, in the Philippine isles, of a beautiful plumage, and size of a peacock, but remarkable for a hideous nocturnal scream.

Buccal

BUC'CAL, adjective [Latin bucca, the cheek.] Pertaining to the cheek. The buccal glands are the small glands of the mouth, under the cheek, which secrete saliva.

Buccellation

BUCCELLA'TION, noun [Latin buccella, buccea, a mouthful.]

The act of breaking into large pieces.

Buccinite

BUC'CINITE, noun Fossil remains or petrifactions of the shells called buccinum.

Bucentaur

BUCENT'AUR, noun The state barge of Venice.

Bucephalus

BUCEPH'ALUS, noun An animal of the gazelle tribe, of the size of a hind.

Buceros

BU'CEROS, noun The hornbill or Indian raven; a genus of birds, common in the East Indies.

Bucholzite

BUCH'OLZITE, noun A newly discovered mineral, whose colors are white and black, appearing in spots.

Buck

BUCK, noun Lye in which clothes are soaked in the operation of bleaching; the liquor in which clothes are washed.

1. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed in lye.

BUCK, verb transitive [Latin imbuo, for imbuco or imbugo, to steep, tinge, imbue.] To soak or steep in lye, a process in bleaching; to wash or steep in lye or suds.

BUCK, noun The male of the fallow deer, of the goat, the sheep, the rabbit and hare. It is applied only to the smaller quadrupeds.

BUCK, verb intransitive To copulate as bucks and does.

BUCK'-BASKET, noun [buck and basket.] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.

Buckbean

BUCK'BEAN, noun This is properly bogbean, which see.

Bucked

BUCK'ED, participle passive Soaked in lye.

Bucket

BUCK'ET, noun

1. The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well; it is nearly in the form of a pail.

2. A vessel or pail used at sea to draw water up at the side of a ship, for washing the decks, etc.

3. A vessel made of leather, nearly in the form of a pail, but narrower and deeper, used to convey water by hand for extinguishing fires.

Bucking

BUCK'ING, participle present tense Soaking in lye, in the process of bleaching; washing.

BUCK'ING, noun The act or process of soaking cloth in lye for bleaching; also, the lye or liquor; a washing.

Bucking-Stool

BUCK'ING-STOOL, noun A washing block.

Buckle

BUCK'LE, noun

1. An instrument made of some kind of metal, for fastening together certain parts of dress, as the straps and bands, as in a harness. The forms are various, but it consists of a ring or rim with a chape and tongue.

2. A curl, or a state of being curled or crisped, as hair.

3. In coats of arms, a token of the surety, faith and service of the bearer.

BUCK'LE, verb transitive To fasten with a buckle or buckles.

1. To prepare for action; a metaphor, taken from buckling on armor.

2. To join in battle.

3. To confine or limit

A span buckles in his sum of age.

BUCKLE, verb intransitive To bend; to bow; as, to buckle under life.

To buckle to, to bend to; to apply with vigor; to engage with zeal.

To buckle in, to close in; to embrace or seize the body, as in a scuffle; a popular use in America.

To buckle with, to encounter with embrace; to join in close combat.

Buckler

BUCK'LER, noun A kind of shield, or piece of defensive armor, anciently used in war. It was composed of wood, or wickers woven together, covered with skin or leather, fortified with plates of brass or other metal, and worn on the left arm. On the middle was an umbo, boss or prominence, very useful in causing stones and darts to glance off. The buckler often was four feet long, and covered the whole body.

BUCK'LER, verb transitive To support; to defend. [Not used.]

Buckler-Thorn

BUCK'LER-THORN, noun Christ's thorn.

Buckmast

BUCK'MAST, noun [buck, that is, beach, and mast.] The mast or fruit of the beach tree.

Buckram

BUCK'RAM, noun A coarse linen cloth, stiffened with glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover cloths, and other merchandize.

BUCK'RAM, adjective Stiff; precise.

Buckrams

BUCK'RAMS, noun The same as wild garlic.

Buckshorn

BUCKS'HORN, noun [buck and horn.] A plant, a species of Plantago, or plantain, called coronopus.

The warted buckshorn is a species of Cochlearia, or scurvy grass.

Buckskin

BUCK'SKIN, noun The skin of a buck. As an adjective, made of leather prepared from the skin of a buck.

Buckstall

BUCK'STALL, noun [buck and stall.] A toil or net to take deer.

Buckthorn

BUCK'THORN, noun [buck and thorn.] A genus of plants, called Rhamnus, of many species. The common purging buck-thorn grows to the height of 12 or 14 feet, and bears a black berry, which, when green, is used to dye yellow, and when ripe, green. The bark also dyes yellow. The sea buck-thorn is a genus of plants, called Hippophae.

Buckwheat

BUCK'WHEAT, noun A plant and a species of grain; called also brank. It belongs to the genus polygonum, or knot-grass. It is cultivated as food for beasts, and the flour is much used in America for breakfast cakes.

Bucolic

BUCOL'IC, adjective [Gr. a herdsman; pastoral; Latin buculus, an ox; bucolicus, pertaining to cattle, pastoral.]

Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd's life and occupation.

BUCOL'IC, noun A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners and occupation of shepherds; as the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

1. A writer of pastorals.

Bud

BUD, noun [Gr. to plant or beget.] A gem; the shoot of a plant; a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds; that containing the flower; that containing the leaves; and that containing both flower and leaves.

BUD, verb intransitive To put forth or produce buds or gems. Job 19:9.

1. To put forth shoots; to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.

2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud as a horn.

3. To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.

BUD, verb transitive To inoculate a plant; to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.

Budded

BUD'DED, participle passive Put forth in buds; inoculated.

Buddhism

BUD'DHISM, noun The doctrines of the Buddhists in Asia.

Budding

BUD'DING, participle present tense Putting forth buds; inoculating.

Buddle

BUD'DLE, noun In mining, a large square frame of board, used in washing tin ore.

BUD'DLE, verb intransitive Among miners, to wash ore.

Budge

BUDGE, verb transitive To move off; to stir; to wag. In America, wag is much used as equivalent to budge; but the use of both words is vulgar.

BUDGE, noun The dressed skin or fur of lambs.

BUDGE, adjective Brisk; jocund.

1. Surly; stiff; formal.

Budge-Bachelors

BUDGE-BACHELORS, a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with lamb's fur, who accompany the Lord Mayor of London at his inauguration.

Budge-Barrel

BUDGE-BARREL, noun A small barrel with only one head; on the other end, a piece of leather is nailed, which is drawn together upon strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder, with a gun or mortar.

Budgeness

BUDGENESS, noun Sternness; severity. [Not used.]

Budger

BUDG'ER, noun One who moves or stirs from his place.

Budget

BUDG'ET, noun

1. A bag; a little sack, with its contents. Hence, a stock or store; as a budget of inventions.

2. The papers respecting the finances of the British nation.

To open the budget to lay before a legislative body the papers of the Executive Government.

Budgy

BUDG'Y, adjective Consisting of fur. [Not used.]

Budlet

BUD'LET, noun [from bud.] A little bud springing from a parent bud.

We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.

Buff

BUFF, noun [contracted from buffalo, or buffskin.]

1. Buffskin; a sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like shammy. It is used for making bandoliers, belts, pouches, gloves and other articles. The skins of oxen, elks and other animals, dressed in like manner, are also called buffs.

2. A military coat made of buff-skin or similar leather.

3. The color of buff; a light yellow.

4. A yellow viscid substance formed on the surface of blood drawn in inflammatory diseases.

BUFF, verb transitive To strike. [See Buffet.]

Buffalo

BUFF'ALO, noun [Latin bubalus.] The Bubalus, a species of the bovine genus, originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the Eastern Continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers. The name is also applied to wild oxen in general, and particularly to the Bison of North America. [See Bison.]

Buffel

BUFF'EL, noun Buffel's head duck, anas bucephala, a bird with a short blue bill, and a head whose apparent size is greatly increased by the fullness of its feathers, found in winter in the rivers of Carolina.

Buffet

BUFF'ET, noun A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses, it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people, by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET, noun A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.

BUFF'ET, verb transitive To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.

They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.

1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET, verb intransitive To exercise or play at boxing.

Buffeted

BUFF'ETED, participle passive Struck; beaten. l Cor.4.11. l Pet.2.20.

Buffeter

BUFF'ETER, noun One who buffets; a boxer.

Buffeting

BUFF'ETING, participle present tense Striking with the hand; boxing; contending against.

BUFF'ETING, noun A striking with the hand.

1. Contention; attack; opposition.

He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but formed for duration, and fitted to endure the buffetings of the rudest storm.

Buffin

BUFF'IN, noun A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.

Buffle

BUFF'LE, noun The buffalo.

BUFF'LE, verb intransitive To puzzle; to be at a loss.

This is probably the same word as baffle.

Buffle-Head

BUFF'LE-HEAD, noun [buffle and head.] One who has a large head.

Buffle-Headed

BUFF'LE-HEADED, adjective Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; foolish.

Buffon

BUFF'ON, noun The Numidian crane, an African fowl.

Buffoon

BUFFOON', noun

1. A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures and posture, jokes and other vulgar pleasantries. A droll; a mimic.

2. He that uses indecent raillery.

BUFFOON', noun verb transitive To make ridiculous.

Buffoonery

BUFFOON'ERY, noun The arts and practices of a buffoon; low jests; ridiculous pranks; vulgar tricks and postures.

Dryden has placed the accent improperly on the first syllable.

Buffooning

BUFFOON'ING, noun Buffoonery.

Buffoonish

BUFFOON'ISH, adjective Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gesture.

Buffoonism

BUFFOON'ISM, noun The practices of a buffoon.

BUFFOON'-LIKE, adjective Resembling a buffoon.

Buffoonly

BUFFOON'LY, adjective Consisting of low vulgar tricks. [Little used.]

Bufonite

BU'FONITE, noun [Latin bufo, a toad.] Toadstone, or fossil-teeth of the anarrhicas or sea-wolf, formerly much esteemed for its imaginary virtues and worn in rings. It was named from an opinion that it was found in the head of a toad.

Bug

BUG, noun In common language, the name of a vast multitude of insects, which infest houses and plants. In zoology, this word is applied to the insects arranged under the genus Cimex, of which several hundred species are described. Bugs belong to the order of hemipters. They are furnished with a rostrum or beak, with antennae longer than the thorax, and the winds are folded together crosswise. The back is flat, the throat margined, and the feet are formed for running. Some species have no wings. The house-bug, or bed-bug, is a troublesome and disgusting insect.

BUG, or BUG'BEAR, noun A frightful object; a walking specter; any thing imaginary that is considered as frightful.

Bugbear

BUG'BEAR, verb transitive To alarm or frighten with idle phantoms.

Bugee

BUGEE', noun A species of monkey found in India, of a beaver color.

Bugelugey

BU'GELUGEY, noun A large species of lizard, four feet long.

Bugger

BUG'GER, noun One guilty of the crime against nature. A vile wretch; a term of reproach.

Buggery

BUG'GERY, noun The unnatural and detestable crime of carnal intercourse of man or woman with a beast; or of human beings unnaturally with each other.

Bugginess

BUG'GINESS, noun [from buggy.] The state of being infected with bugs.

Buggy

BUG'GY, adjective [from bug.] Abounding with bugs.

Bugle

BU'GLE,

BU'GLE-HORN, noun A hunting horn.

1. A military instrument of music.

BU'GLE, noun A shining bead of black glass.

BU'GLE, noun [Latin bugula, or bugillo.] A genus of plants, Ajuga, of several species.

BU'GLE, noun [Latin buculus, an ox.] A sort of wild ox.

Bugle-Horn

BU'GLE-HORN, n. A hunting horn. 1. A military instrument of music.

Bugle-Weed

BU'GLE-WEED, noun A plant, the lycopus virginicus, valued as a remedy for haemoptysis, or spitting of blood.

Bugloss

BU'GLOSS, noun [Latin buglossus; Gr. an ox, and tongue.]

A genus of plants, called alkanet; in botany, anchusa.

The small wild bugloss is the Asperugo.

The viper's bugloss is the Echium.

Bugwort

BUG'WORT, noun A plant, the Cimicifuga.

Buhrstone

BUHR'STONE, noun A subspecies of silex or quartz, occurring in amorphous masses, partly compact, but containing many irregular cavities. It is used for mill-stones.

This word is often written burr-stone.

Build

BUILD,

BILD, verb transitive bild; preterit tense built; participle passive built, pronounced bilt. The regular preterit tense and participle passive builded, is sometimes used.

1. To frame, construct, and raise, as an edifice or fabric of almost any kind, as a house, barn, shop, ship or vessel, a wall, or other structure of art; to unite materials into a regular structure for use or convenience.

2. To raise by art; to frame or shape into a particular form; as, to build up a head dress in a cone.

3. To raise any thing on a support or foundation; as, to build our hopes on air.

4. In scripture, to increase and strengthen; to cement and knit together; to settle or establish and preserve. Acts 20:32. Ephesians 2:22. i Sam. 2.35.

BUILD, verb intransitive bild. To exercise the art, or practice the business of building.

To build to plant, whatever you intend.

1. To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation; as, to build on the opinions of others.

Builder

BUILD'ER, noun bild'er. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build; an architect, a ship-wright, a mason, etc.

1. A creator.

Whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11:10.

Building

BUILD'ING, participle present tense bild'ing. Framing and erecting; resting on.

BUILD'ING, noun bild'ing. A fabric or edifice constructed for use or convenience, as a house, a church, a shop, etc.

Built

BUILT, participle passive bilt. Framed and raised; constructed.

BUILT, noun bilt. Form; shape; general figure of a structure; as the built of a ship.

1. Species of building.

Bul

BUL, noun The common flounder.

Bulb

BULB, noun [Latin bulbus, a bulb or round root.] A round body, applied to many objects. But in botany, it is appropriately a bud formed under ground, upon or near the roots of certain herbaceous plants, which are hence called bulbous plants, as the tulip, onion and lily. The bulb under ground is what the bud is upon the stem or branches, a hybernacle or winter receptacle of a future plant, containing the plant in embryo, covered with a bark or rind, generally consisting of scales placed over each other, to defend the tender rudiments of the plant from cold and other external injuries. A bulb is scaly in the lily, solid in the tulip, coated in the onion, and jointed in the tuberous moschatel.

BULB, verb intransitive To bulb out is to project or be protuberant. [Little used.]

Bulbaceous

BULBA'CEOUS, adjective Bulbous. [I believe, not used.]

Bulbed

BULB'ED, adjective Round headed.

Bulbiferous

BULBIF'EROUS, adjective Producing bulbs; as bulbiferous stems.

Bulbous

BULB'OUS, adjective Containing bulbs or a bulb; growing from bulbs; round or roundish.

1. Containing a knob, or protuberant part; swelling out; presenting rounded elevations.

Bulchin

BULCHIN, noun A young male calf.

Bulge

BULGE, noun A different orthography of bilge. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask; protuberance.

BULGE, verb intransitive To swell out; to be protuberant.

1. To bilge as a ship. [See Bilge.]

Bulging

BULG'ING, participle present tense or adjective Swelling out; bilging. As an adjective, protuberant.

Bulimy

BU'LIMY, noun [Gr. great, and hunger.] A voracious appetite; a disease in which the patient has a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food, and often faints, if not indulged. It is attended with various symptoms; sometimes with heartburn; sometimes with vomiting or convulsion.

Bulk

BULK, noun

1. Magnitude of material substance; whole dimensions; size of a thing; as an ox or a ship of great bulk

2. The gross; the majority; the main mass or body; as the bulk of a debt; the bulk of a nation.

3. Main fabric.

4. The whole content of a ship's hood for the stowage of goods.

5. A part of a building jutting out.

To break bulk in seamen's language, is to begin to unload.

Laden in bulk having the cargo loose in the hold, or not inclosed in boxes, bales or casks.

Bulk-Head

BULK'-HEAD, noun [bulk and head.] A partition in a ship made with boards, to form separate apartments.

Bulkiness

BULK'INESS, noun Greatness in bulk, size or stature.

Bulky

BULK'Y, adjective Large; of great dimensions; of great size.

Bull

BULL, noun

1. The male of the Bos, or bovine genus of quadrupeds, of which cow is the female.

2. In a scriptural sense, an enemy, powerful, fierce and violent.

Many bulls have compassed me. Psalms.

3. Taurus, one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

BULL, noun [Latin bulla, a boss, and an ornament worn on a child's neck. This name was given to the seal which was appended to the edicts and briefs of the Pope, and in process of time, applied to the edict itself.]

1. A letter, edict or rescript of the Pope, published or transmitted to the churches over which he is head, containing some decree, order or decision. It is used chiefly in matters of justice or of grace. If the former, the lead or seal is hung by a hempen cord; if the latter, by a silken thread. The lead or bull is impressed on one side with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul; on the other with the name of the Pope and the year of his pontificate. The writing is in the old, round Gothic letter; and the instrument has about it a cross with some text of scripture, or religious motto.

The Golden bull so called from its golden seal, is an edict or imperial constitution, made by the Emperor Charles V., containing the fundamental law of the German Empire.

Leaden Bulls were sent by the Emperors of Constantinople to patriarchs and princes; and by the grandees of the Empire of France, Sicily, etc., and by patriarchs and bishops.

Waxen bulls were in frequent use with the Greek Emperors, who thus sealed letters to their relations.

1. A blunder or contradiction.

BULL, a prefix, signifies a bull or large, or having a large head.

BULL'-BAITING, noun [bull and bait.] The practice of baiting or exciting bulls with dogs.

BULL'-BEEF, noun [bull and beef.] The flesh of a bull; coarse beef.

BULL'-BEGGAR, noun [bull and beggar.] Something terrible, or frightful.

BULL'-CALF, noun [bull and calf.] A male calf; a stupid fellow.

BULL'-DOG, noun [bull and dog.] A species of dog of a particular form and of remarkable courage; so named probably from being employed in baiting bulls, or from the size of the head.

Bull-Fight

BULL'-FIGHT, noun [bull and fight.] A combat with a bull; an amusement among the Spaniards and Portuguese. A horseman, called a toreador or picador attacks a bull in a circus or inclosed arena, in presence of multitudes of spectators, irritating him with a spear, till the bull rushes upon the horseman, and perhaps dismounts the rider. After the bull has been tormented a long time, the horseman leaves him, and some persons on foot attack him and plunge darts into his neck; and at a signal given by the president, the barbarous sport is ended by the dagger of a matador.

BULL'-FINCH, noun [bull and finch.] A bird of the Sparrow kind, whose breast, cheeks and throat are of a crimson color; the rubicilla.

BULL'-FLY, or BULL'-BEE, noun An insect.

BULL'-FROG, noun [bull and frog.] The rana ocellata, a large species of frog, found in North America, of a dusky brown color, mixed with a yellowish green, and spotted with black. These frogs live in stagnant water, and utter a loud croaking sound, from which they probably received their name.

Bull-Head

BULL'-HEAD, noun [bull and head.] A genus of fishes, the Cottus, with a head broader than the body, whence the name. This fish is called by some the Miller's thumb.

1. A stupid fellow; a lubber.

2. A small black water vermin.

BULL'-TROUT, noun [bull and trout.] A large species of trout, called also sea-trout, thicker than the common sort, and weighing about three pounds. Its back has a bluish green gloss, and there are several black spots on the sides.

BULL'-WEED, noun Knap weed.

BULL'-WORT, noun Bishops weed.

Bullace

BULL'ACE, noun The bully-tree, or Chrysophyllum, a plant of two species, natives of the West Indies.

1. The wild plum, a species of Prunus.

Bullantic

BULLAN'TIC, adjective [from bull.] Designating certain ornamental capital letters, used in Apostolic bulls. It is used also as a noun.

Bullary

BULL'ARY, noun A collection of Papistical bulls.

Bullate

BUL'LATE, adjective [Latin bullatus.] Having elevations, like blisters; as a bullate leaf.

Bullet

BULL'ET, noun A ball of iron or lead, called also shot, used to load guns for killing man or beast. Balls for cannon are made of iron; musket-balls are made of lead.

Bulletin

BULL'ETIN, noun A French word denoting

1. An official report from an officer to his commander or superior.

2. An official report of a physician respecting the king's health.

3. A little note given by a banking company.

4. It is sometimes used for a notice, or public announcement; as a bibliographical bulletin

Bullion

BULL'ION, noun Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. The precious metals are called bullion when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots, or in any form uncoined, as in plate.

Bullish

BULL'ISH, adjective Partaking of the nature of a bull or blunder.

Bullist

BULL'IST, noun A writer of papal bulls.

Bullite

BUL'LITE, noun A petrified shell, or the fossil remains of shells, of the genus Bulla.

Bullition

BULLI'TION, noun [Latin bullio, to boil. See Boil.] The act or state of boiling. Superseded by ebullition.

Bullock

BULL'OCK, noun An ox, or castrated bull. In America, it is applied to a full grown ox.

Bulls-Eye

BULL'S-EYE, noun [bull and eye.] Among seamen, a piece of wood in the form of a ring, answering the purpose of a thimble.

1. Aldebaran, a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Taurus.

2. A small obscure cloud, ruddy in the middle, portending a great storm.

BULL'-FACED, adjective Having a large face.

BULL'-FEAST, noun [See Bull-fight.]

Bully

BULL'Y, noun A noisy, blustering overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces, than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels.

BULL'Y, verb transitive To insult and overbear with noise and blustering menaces.

BULL'Y, , verb intransitive To be noisy and quarrelsome.

Bulrush

BUL'RUSH, noun [bole, or boll, and rush.] A large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water, and without knots, says Johnson, but Dryden calls it, the knotty bulrush It is not a technical word.

Bultel

BUL'TEL, noun [See Bolt.] A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. [Not used.]

Bulwark

BUL'WARK, noun

1. In fortification, a bastion, or a rampart; a mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed with bastions, curtains, etc.

2. A fortification; also, any means of defense; as, a navy is the bulwark of a nation.

3. That which secures against an enemy or external annoyance; a screen or shelter; means of protection and safety.

Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Isaiah 26:1.

BUL'WARK, verb transitive To fortify with a rampart; to secure by a fortification; to protect.

Bum

BUM, noun The buttocks; the part on which we sit.

BUM, verb intransitive To make a noise.

Bumbailiff

BUMBA'ILIFF, noun [A corruption of bound bailiff.] In England, an under-bailiff; a subordinate civil officer, appointed to serve writs, and to make arrests and executions, and bound with sureties for a faithful discharge of his trust. [A vulgar word.]

Bumbard

BUM'BARD, noun [See Bombard.]

Bumboat

BUM'BOAT, noun A small boat, for carrying provisions to a ship at a distance from shore.

Bumkin

BUM'KIN, noun [See Bumpkin.] A short boom projecting from each bow of a ship, to extend the clue of the foresail to windward.

1. A small out-rigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizen.

Bump

BUMP, noun [Latin bombus, and Eng. pomp., from swelling, thrusting out.]

1. A swelling or protuberance.

2. A thump; a heavy blow.

BUMP, verb intransitive To make a loud, heavy or hollow noise, as the bittern. It is also written boom.

BUMP, verb transitive To strike as with or against any thing large or solid, as to bump the head against a wall; to thump.

Bumper

BUMP'ER, noun A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over.

Bumpkin

BUMP'KIN, noun [bump, large, swelling.] An awkward heavy rustic; a clown, or country lout.

Bumpkinly

BUMP'KINLY, adjective Clownish. [Not used.]

Bunch

BUNCH, noun

1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; as the bunch on a camel's back.

2. A cluster; a number of the same kind growing together; as a bunch of grapes.

3. A number of things tied together; as a bunch of keys; a bunch or rods.

4. A collection of things; a knot; as a bunch of hair; a bunch of trees.

BUNCH, verb intransitive To swell out in a protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

BUNCH, verb transitive To form or tie in a bunch or bunches.

BUNCH'-BACKED, adjective [bunch and back.] Having a bunch on the back; crooked.

Bunchiness

BUNCH'INESS, noun The quality of being bunchy, or growing in bunches.

Bunchy

BUNCH'Y, adjective Growing in bunches; like a bunch; having tufts.

Bundle

BUN'DLE, noun

1. A number of things put together.

2. A roll; any thing bound or rolled into a convenient form for conveyance; as a bundle of lace; a bundle of hay.

BUNDLE, verb transitive To tie or bind in a bundle or roll; often followed by up; as, to bundle up clothes.

Bung

BUNG, noun

1. The stopple of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

2. The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cast.

BUNG, verb transitive To stop the orifice in the bilge of a cask with a bung; to close up.

BUNG'-HOLE, noun [bung and hole.] The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cask.

Bungle

BUNG'LE, verb intransitive bung'gl. To perform in a clumsy, awkward manner; as, to bungle in making shoes.

BUNG'LE, verb transitive To make or mend clumsily; to both; to manage awkwardly; with up.

BUNG'LE, noun A botch; inaccuracy; gross blunder; clumsy performance.

Bungler

BUNG'LER, noun A clumsy awkward workman; one who performs without skill.

Bungling

BUNG'LING, participle present tense Performing awkwardly.

BUNG'LING, adjective Clumsy; awkwardly done.

Bunglingly

BUNG'LINGLY, adverb Clumsily; awkwardly.

Bunk

BUNK, noun A case or cabin of boards for a bed; a word used in some parts of America.

Bunn

BUNN, or BUN, noun [Gr. a hill, and a cake offered to deities.]

A small cake, or a kind of sweet bread.

Bunsing

BUN'SING, noun An animal found at the Cape of Good Hope, resembling the ferret, but twice as large. When pursued, it emits an intolerable stench.

Bunt

BUNT, noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail.

BUNT, verb intransitive To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

1. In popular language, to push with the horns; to butt. [See Point.]

Bunter

BUNT'ER, noun A cant word for a woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low vulgar woman.

Bunting

BUNT'ING, noun A bird of the genus Emberiza. The name is applied to different species, as the English bunting and the rice bunting

BUNT'ING, or BUN'TINE, noun A thin woolen stuff, of which the colors or flags and signals of ships are made.

Buntlines

BUNT'LINES, noun Ropes fastened to cringles on the bottoms of square sails, to draw them up to their yards.

Buoy

BUOY, noun A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor, and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks, employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel.

To stream the buoy is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.

Buoyancy

BUOY'ANCY, noun The quality of floating on the surface of water, or in the atmosphere; specific lightness.

Buoyant

BUOY'ANT, adjective Floating; light; that will not sink; having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid.

1. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body. [Unusual.]

Buoyrope

BUOY'ROPE, noun [buoy and rope.] The rope which fastens a buoy to an anchor.

BUOY, verb transitive To keep afloat in a fluid; to bear up, or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; with up.

1. To support, or sustain; to keep from sinking into ruin or despondency.

2. To fix buoys, as a direction to mariners.

BUOY, verb intransitive To float; to rise by specific lightness.

Buprestes

BUPRES'TES, noun A species of cantharides, of a nauseous scent, and biting severely.

Bur

BUR,

BUR'-REED, noun A plant, the Sparganium.

Bur-Reed

BUR'-REED, n. A plant, the Sparganium.

Burbast

BUR'BAST, noun A different orthography of bombast, which see.]

1. A cloth made by sewing one stuff upon another; patchwork.

2. Linen stuffed with cotton; stuffing; waddling.

BUM'BLE BEE, noun [Latin bombus, a buzzing.] A large bee, sometimes called humble bee; so named from it sound.

Burbot

BUR'BOT, noun [from Latin barbatus, so named from its beard.]

A fish of the genus Gadus, shaped like an eel, but shorter, with a flat head, and on the nose it has two small beards, and another on the chin. It is disgusting in appearance, but delicate food. It is called also eel-pout.

Burdelais

BURD'ELAIS, noun A sort of grape.

Burden

BURD'EN, noun burd'n; written also burthen. [Latin fero, or porto.]

1. That which is borne or carried; a load. Hence,

2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive.

3. A birth.

4. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each verse; the chorus; so called from the application of this word to the drone or base, and the pipe or string which plays it, in an instrument. A chord which is to be divided, to perform the intervals of music, when open and undivided, is also called the burden

5. In common language, that which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells.

6. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

7. The contents of a ship; the quantity or number of tons, a vessel will carry; as a ship of a hundred tons burden

8. A club. [Not in use.]

BURD'EN, verb transitive burd'n. To load; to lay on a heavy load; to incumber with weight. Hence,

1. To oppress with any thing grievous; as, to burden a nation with taxes.

2. To surcharge; as, to burden the memory.

Burdened

BURD'ENED, participle passive Loaded with weight; incumbered; oppressed.

Burdener

BURD'ENER, noun One who loads; an oppressor

Burdenous

BURD'ENOUS, adjective Grievous; heavy to be borne; oppressive.

1. Cumbersome; useless.

Burdensome

BURD'ENSOME, adjective Heavy; grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.

Burdensomeness

BURD'ENSOMENESS, noun The quality of being burdensome; heaviness; oppressiveness.

Burdock

BUR'DOCK, noun [bur and dock.] A genus of plants, called Arctium. They are troublesome weeds.

The lesser burdock is a species of zanthium.

Bureau

BU'REAU, noun buro.

1. A chest of drawers, for keeping papers or clothes.

2. An ambassador's or secretary's office.

In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household.

Burg

BURG, noun [This is the same word as borough, the only difference being in the pronunciation of the final letter.]

A borough; originally a fortified town, but now a city or town, which send members to parliament, whether incorporated or not. [See Borough.]

Burgage

BURG'AGE, noun [from burg.] In English law, tenure in burgage or burgage tenure, is tenure in socage, applied to cities or towns, or where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, are held of some lord in common socage by a certain established rent; a remnant of Saxon liberty.

Burgamot

BURG'AMOT, noun A species of pear. [See Bergamot.]

1. A kind of perfume. [See Bergamot.]

Burganet

BURG'ANET,

BURGEOIS', noun A burgess.

BURGEOIS',

BOURGEOIS', noun burjois'. A species of type, or printing letter,

smaller than long primer, and larger than brevier.

Burgeois

BURGEOIS', n. A burgess.

Burgeon

BURGEON. [See Bourgeon.]

Burger-Master

BURG'ER-MASTER, noun An aquatic fowl which builds its nest on cliffs near the water.

Burgess

BURG'ESS, noun

1. An inhabitant of a borough, or walled town; or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.

2. A representative of a borough in parliament.

3. A magistrate of certain towns.

4. Before the revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia, were called burgesses, as the House of Burgesses. It is now called the House of Delegate.

Burgess-Ship

BURG'ESS-SHIP, noun The state or quality of a burgess.

Burgh

BURGH, noun burg. A different orthography of burg, borough, which see.

BURGH'-BOTE, noun [burgh and bote.] In old laws, a contribution towards the building or repairing of castles, or walls, for the defense of a city or town.

BURGH'-BRECH, noun [burgh and break.] A fine imposed on a burgh for a breach of the peace.

Burgh-Master

BURGH'-M'ASTER, noun [burgh and master.] A burgomaster; also, an officer in the tinmines, who directs and lays out the meers for the workmen, called also bailiff and bar-master.

Burgher

BURGH'ER, noun [from burg.] An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a free man. In America, it is applied to any native citizen, especially in the state of New York.

Burgher-Ship

BURGH'ER-SHIP, noun The state or privilege of a burgher.

Burghmote

BURGH'MOTE, noun [burgh and mote, meeting.] The court of a burgh or borough.

Burglar

BURG'LAR, noun [burgh or burg, a house] One guilty of nocturnal house breaking; one who breaks and enters a mansion house, with intent to commit a felony.

Burglarian

BURGLARIAN, noun A person guilty of burglary.

Burglarious

BURGLA'RIOUS, adjective Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry.

Burglariously

BURGLA'RIOUSLY, adverb With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.

Burglary

BURG'LARY, noun The act or crime of nocturnal house breaking, with an intent to commit a felony. To constitute this crime, the act must be committed in the night, or when there is not day-light enough to discern a man's face. It must be in a mansion house, or in an adjoining building which is a part or parcel of the mansion. There must be an actual breaking and an entry; but an opening made by the offender, as by taking out a pane of glass, or lifting a window, raising a latch, picking a lock, or removing any fastening, amounts to a breaking; and a putting in of the hand, after such breaking, is an entry. The act must also be done with an intent to commit felony.

Burgomaster

BURG'OM'ASTER, noun [burg and master.] A burgh-master; a magistrate or one employed in the government of a city. The burgomasters are the chief magistrates of the great towns, in Holland, Flanders and Germany.

Burgonet

BURG'ONET, noun A kind of helmet, the Spanish murrion.

Burgrave

BUR'GRAVE, noun [burg] In some European countries, an hereditary governor of a town or castle.

Burgundy

BUR'GUNDY, noun A kind of wine, so called from burgundy in France.

Burgundy pitch is turpentine boiled down to a firmer consistence.

Burh

BURH, is the same as burg, burgh, with the aspirate. It is Saxon, and signifies a city, a castle, a house, or tower. Hence in composition it signified defense, protection; as cwenburh, [queen-burh] a woman ready to assist; Cuthburh, eminent for assistances.

Burial

BURIAL, noun ber'rial. [See Bury.] The act of burying a deceased person; sepulture; interment; the act of depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water.

1. The act of placing any thing under earth or water; as, to bury see in the earth.

2. The church service for funerals.

Burialplace

BURIAL'PLACE, noun A place appropriated to the burial of the dead; a grave-yard.

Burier

BURIER, noun ber'rier. One who buries a deceased person.

Burin

BU'RIN, noun A graver; an instrument for engraving.

Burl

BURL, verb transitive [See Burly.] To dress cloth as fullers do.

1. To pick knots and loose threads off from cloth.

Burlace

BUR'LACE, noun [A contraction of burdelais.] A sort of grape.