Bo tree
Bo" tree . (Bot.) The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.
"The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists ( Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself… . It differs from the banyan ( Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches." - Tennent.

Boa
Bo´a (bo"a), n. ; pl. Boas. [L. boa a kind of water serpent. Perh. fr. bos an ox.]
1. (Zoöl.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico ( B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru ( B. eques). The name is also applied to related genera; as the dog-headed boa ( Xiphosoma caninum).
2. A long, round fur tippet; — so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.

Boa constrictor
Bo"a con•strict"or . [NL. See Boa, and Constrictor.] (Zoöl.) A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to those of the genus Python, found in Asia and Africa.

Boar (bor), n. [OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. bar; akin to OHG. per, MHG. ber, G. bär, boar (but not bär bear), and perh. Russ. borov’ boar.] (Zoöl.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

Board (bord), n. [OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. borð board, side of a ship, Goth. fotu- baurd footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. rad.92.]
1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, — used for building, etc. When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank.
2. A table to put food upon. The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. Halliwell.
"Fruit of all kinds … She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand." - Milton.
3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; — usually as furnished for pay; as to work for one’s board; the price of board.
4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
"Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board." - Clarendon.
"We may judge from their letters to the board." - Porteus.
5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as a chess board; a backgammon board.
6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as to bind a book in boards.
7. pl. The stage in a theater; as to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
8. [In this use originally perh. a different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. boord, G. bord, shipboard, and G. borte trimming; also F. bord (fr. G.) the side of a ship. Cf. Border.] The border or side of anything. (Naut.) (a) The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." Dryden. See On board, below. (b) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as fir board, clap board, floor board, ship board, side board, ironing board, chess board, card board, paste board, sea board; board measure. The American Board, a shortened form of "The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches). — Bed and board. See under Bed. — Board and board (Naut.), side by side. — Board of control, six privy councilors formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the British East Indies. Stormonth. — Board rule, a figured scale for finding without calculation the number of square feet in a board. Haldeman. — Board of trade, in England, a committee of the privy council appointed to superintend matters relating to trade. In the United States, a body of men appointed for the advancement and protection of their business interests; a chamber of commerce. — Board wages. (a) Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as to work hard, and get only board wages. (b) Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging. (c) A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging. Dryden. — By the board, over the board, or side. "The mast went by the board." Totten. Hence (Fig.), To go by the board, to suffer complete destruction or overthrow. — To enter on the boards, to have one’s name inscribed on a board or tablet in a college as a student. [Cambridge, England.] "Having been entered on the boards of Trinity college." Hallam. — To make a good board (Naut.), to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward. — To make short boards, to tack frequently. — On board. (a) On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as I came on board early; to be on board ship. (b) In or into a railway car or train. [Colloq. U. S.] — Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. [U.S.]

Board, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boarding.]
1. To cover with boards or boarding; as to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.
2. [Cf. Board to accost, and see Board, n. ] To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
"You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication." - Totten.
3. To enter, as a railway car. [Colloq. U. S.]
4. To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
5. To place at board, for compensation; as to board one’s horse at a livery stable.

Board, v. i. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as he boards at the hotel.
"We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house." - Spectator.

Board, v. t. [F. aborder. See Abord, v. t.] To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [Obs.]
"I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack." - Shak.

Boarder
Board´er, n.
1. One who has food statedly at another’s table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy’s ship. Totten.

Boarding
Board´ing, n.
1. (Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
"Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate." - Sir F. Drake.
2. The act of covering with boards; also boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
3. The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. — Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. — Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. — Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.

Boarfish
Boar´fish, n. (Zoöl.) (a) A Mediterranean fish ( Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; — so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog’s snout. (b) An Australian percoid fish ( Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

Boarish
Boar´ish, a. Swinish; brutal; cruel.
"In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs." - Shak.

Boast, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boasting.] [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English.]
1. To vaunt one’s self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one’s self or of things belonging to one’s self; as to boast of one’s exploits courage, descent, wealth.
"By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9."
2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
"In God we boast all the day long." - Ps. xliv. 8
Syn. — To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.

Boast, v. t.
1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
"Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds." - Milton.
2. To display vaingloriously.
3. To possess or have; as to boast a name. To boast one’s self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one’s self; — followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow." - Prov. xxvii. 1

Boast, v. t. [Of uncertain etymology.]
1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.
2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Boast, n.
1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
"Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!" - Byron.
2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, — sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
"The boast of historians." - Macaulay.

Boastance
Boast´ance, n. Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Boaster
Boast´er, n. One who boasts; a braggart.

Boaster
Boast´er, n. A stone mason’s broad-faced chisel.

Boastful
Boast´ful, a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self- praising. — Boast´ful•ly, adv. — Boast´ful•ness, n.

Boasting
Boast´ing, n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
"When boasting ends, then dignity begins." - Young.

Boastingly
Boast´ing•ly, adv. Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.

Boastive
Boast´ive, a. Presumptuous. [R.]

Boastless
Boast´less, a. Without boasting or ostentation.

Boat, n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. bat; akin to Icel. batr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]
1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. Different kinds of boats have different names; as canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as the Cunard boats.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as a stone boat; a gravy boat. Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. Advice boat. See under Advice. — Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. — Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; — usually called a painter. — In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.

Boat (bot), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.]
1. To transport in a boat; as to boat goods.
2. To place in a boat; as to boat oars. To boat the oars. See under Oar.

Boat, v. i. To go or row in a boat.
"I boated over, ran my craft aground." - Tennyson.

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

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

Boatable
Boat´a•ble, a.
1. Such as can be transported in a boat.
2. Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
"The boatable waters of the Alleghany." - J. Morse.

Boatage
Boat´age, n. Conveyance by boat; also a charge for such conveyance.

Boatbill
Boat´bill, n. (Zoöl.)
1. A wading bird ( Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
2. A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.

Boatful
Boat´ful, n. ; pl. Boatfuls. The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

Boathouse
Boat´house, n. A house for sheltering boats.
"Half the latticed boathouse hides." - Wordsworth.

Boating
Boat´ing, n.
1. The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

Boation
Bo•a´tion, n. [L. boatus, fr. boare to roar.] A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.]
"The guns were heard … about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations." - Derham.

Boatman
Boat´man, n. ; pl. Boatmen .
1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
"As late the boatman hies him home." - Percival.
2. (Zoöl.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.

Boat-shaped
Boat´-shaped, a. (Bot.) See Cymbiform.

Boatswain
Boat´swain, n. [ Boat + swain.]
1. (Naut.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The jager gull. (b) The tropic bird. Boatswain’s mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.

Boat-tail
Boat´-tail, n. (Zoöl.) A large grackle or blackbird ( Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

Boatwoman
Boat´wom•an, n. ; pl. Boatwomen . A woman who manages a boat.

Bob, n. [An onomatopoetic word, expressing quick, jerky motion; OE. bob bunch, bobben to strike, mock, deceive. Cf. Prov. Eng. bob, n., a ball, an engine beam, bunch, blast, trick, taunt, scoff; as a v., to dance, to courtesy, to disappoint, OF. bober to mock.]
1. Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as the bob at the end of a kite’s tail.
"In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob." - Dryden.
2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
"Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow." - Lauson.
3. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
4. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
5. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
6. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as a bob of the head.
7. (Steam Engine) A working beam.
8. A knot or short curl of hair; also a bob wig.
"A plain brown bob he wore." - Shenstone.
9. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
10. The refrain of a song.
"To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. L’Estrange."
11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
12. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
"He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob." - Shak.
13. A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

Bob, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bobbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bobbing.] [OE. bobben. See Bob, n. ]
1. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. "He bobbed his head." W. Irving.
2. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
"If any man happened by long sitting to sleep … he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants." - Elyot.
3. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
"Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him." - Shak.
4. To mock or delude; to cheat.
"To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began." - Turbervile.
5. To cut short; as to bob the hair, or a horse’s tail.

Bob, v. i.
1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "Bobbing and courtesying." Thackeray.
2. To angle with a bob. See Bob, n. , 2 & 3.
"He ne’er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels." - Saxe.
To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

Bobac
Bo´bac, n. (Zoöl.) The Poland marmot ( Arctomys bobac).

Bobance
Bo•bance´, n. [OF. bobance, F. bombance, boasting, pageantry, fr. L. bombus a humming, buzzing.] A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bobber
Bob´ber, n. One who, or that which, bobs.

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

Bobbin
Bob´bin, n. [F. bobine; of uncertain origin; cf. L. bombus a humming, from the noise it makes, or Ir. & Gael. baban tassel, or E. bob.]
1. A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
2. A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
3. The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
4. (Haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
5. (Elec.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current. Bobbin and fly frame, a roving machine. — Bobbin lace, lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.

Bobbinet
Bob•bi•net´, n. [ Bobbin + net.] A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]
"The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced." - Tomlinsom.

Bobbinwork
Bob´bin•work, n. Work woven with bobbins.

Bobbish
Bob´bish, a. Hearty; in good spirits. [Low, Eng.] Dickens.

Bobby
Bob´by, n. A nickname for a policeman; — from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

Bob-cherry
Bob´-cher•ry, n. A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

Bobfly
Bob´fly, n. (Fishing) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

Bobolink
Bob´o•link, n. (Zoöl.) An American singing bird ( Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; — called also ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
"The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink." - W. Irving.
{ Bob´sled•, Bob´sleigh• }, n. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also the compound sled so formed. [U. S.]
"The long wagon body set on bobsleds." - W. D. Howells.

Bobstay
Bob´stay, n. [ Bob + stay.] (Naut.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; — usually in the pl.

Bobtail
Bob´tail, n. [ Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Bobtail
Bob´tail, a. Bobtailed. "Bobtail cur." Marryat.

Bobtailed
Bob´tailed, a. Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

Bobwhite
Bob´white, n. (Zoöl.) The common quail of North America ( Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); — so called from its note.

Bocal
Bo´cal, n. [F.] A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

Bocardo
Bo•car´do, n. [A mnemonic word.]
1. (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
"Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians." - Bowen.
2. A prison; — originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] Latimer.

Bocasine
Boc´a•sine, n. [F. bocassin, boucassin.] A sort of fine buckram.

Bocca
Boc´ca, n. [It., mouth.] The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

Boce (bos), n. [L. box, bocis, Gr. bo•ax, bw^x.] (Zoöl.) A European fish ( Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; — called also box, and bogue.

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

Bockelet
Bock´e•let, n. (Zoöl.) A kind of long-winged hawk; — called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]

Bockey
Bock´ey, n. [D. bokaal.] A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

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

Bockland
Bock´land, n. See Bookland.

Boddice
Bod´dice, n. See Bodick.

Bodement
Bode´ment, n. An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.]
"This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements." - Shak.

Bodge, n. A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

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

Bodge, v. i. See Budge.

Bodice
Bod´ice, n. [This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body.]
1. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
2. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman’s dress, or a portion of it.
"Her bodice half way she unlaced." - Prior.

Bodied
Bod´ied, a. Having a body; — usually in composition; as able- bodied.
"A doe … not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied." - Hakluyt.

Bodiless
Bod´i•less, a.
1. Having no body.
2. Without material form; incorporeal.
"Phantoms bodiless and vain." - Swift.

Bodiliness
Bod´i•li•ness, n. Corporeality. Minsheu.

Bodily
Bod´i•ly, a.
1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
"You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us." - Tatler.
2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." L’Estrange.
3. Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.]
"Be brought to bodily act." - Shak.
Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.
Syn. — See Corporal.

Bodily
Bod´i•ly, adv.
1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
"For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." - Col. ii. 9
2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below." Lowell.

Boding
Bod´ing (bod"ing), a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. — Bod´ing•ly, adv.

Boding
Bod´ing, n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

Bodkin
Bod´kin (bod"kin), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag.]
1. A dagger. [Obs.]
"When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin." - Shak.
2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a tiletto; an eyeleteer.
3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.
"Wedged whole ages in a bodkin’s eye." - Pope.
5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Bodkin
Bod´kin, n. See Baudekin. [Obs.] Shirley.

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

Bodock
Bo•dock´, n. [Corrupt. fr. bois d’arc.] The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

Bodrage
Bod´rage, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin: cf. Bordrage.] A raid. [Obs.]

Bodyguard
Bod´y•guard, n.
1. A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
2. Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus.

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

Bogey
Bo´gey, n. A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

Bogey
Bo´gey, n. ; pl. Bogeys (#). [Also bogie.]
1. A goblin; a bugbear.
"I have become a sort of bogey — a kill- joy." Wm. Black.
2. (Golf) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; — said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey.

Boggard
Bog´gard, n. A bogey. [Local, Eng.]

Boggle
Bog´gle, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boggled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Boggling .] [ See Bogle, n. ]
1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
"We start and boggle at every unusual appearance." - Glanvill.
"Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose." - Barrow.
2. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell.
Syn. — To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.

Boggle
Bog´gle, v. t. To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]

Boggler
Bog´gler, n. One who boggles.

Bogglish
Bog´glish, a. Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]

Boggy
Bog´gy, a. Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as boggy land.

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

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

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

Bogtrotter
Bog´trot•ter, n. One who lives in a boggy country; — applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

Bogtrotting
Bog´trot•ting, a. Living among bogs.

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

Bogue, n. (Zoöl.) The boce; — called also bogue bream. See Boce.

Bogwood
Bog´wood, n. The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

Bogy
Bo´gy, n. ; pl. Bogies . [See Bogle.] A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death’s heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.]
"There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages." - C. Kingsley.

Bohemianism
Bo•he´mi•an•ism, n. The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]

Bohun upas
Bo"hun u"pas . See Upas.

Boiler
Boil´er, n.
1. One who boils.
2. A vessel in which any thing is boiled. The word boiler is a generic term covering a great variety of kettles, saucepans, clothes boilers, evaporators, coppers, retorts, etc.
3. (Mech.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. The earliest steam boilers were usually spheres or sections of spheres, heated wholly from the outside. Watt used the wagon boiler (shaped like the top of a covered wagon) which is still used with low pressures. Most of the boilers in present use may be classified as plain cylinder boilers, flue boilers, sectional and tubular boilers. Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part containing the flues. — Boiler plate, Boiler iron, plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc. — Cylinder boiler, one which consists of a single iron cylinder. — Flue boilers are usually single shells containing a small number of large flues, through which the heat either passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water. — Locomotive boiler, a boiler which contains an inclosed fire box and a large number of small flues leading to the chimney. — Multiflue boiler. Same as Tubular boiler, below. — Sectional boiler, a boiler composed of a number of sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built up. — Tubular boiler, a boiler containing tubes which form flues, and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler. See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam. — Tubulous boiler. See under Tubulous. See Tube, n. , 6, and 1st Flue.

Boiler
Boil´er, n. A sunken reef; esp., a coral reef on which the sea breaks heavily.

Boilery
Boil´er•y (boil"er•y), n. [Cf. F. bouillerie.] A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

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

Boiling
Boil´ing, n.
1. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
2. Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

Boilingly
Boil´ing•ly, adv. With boiling or ebullition.
"And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher." - Byron.

Bois d’arc
Bois" d’arc" . [F., bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians.] (Bot.) The Osage orange ( Maclura aurantiaca).
"The bois d’arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880)."

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

Boist, n. [OF. boiste, F. boîte, from the same root as E. box.] A box. [Obs.]

Boisterous
Bois´ter•ous, a. [OE. boistous; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity, bwystus ferocious.]
1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.
2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
"The waters swell before a boisterous storm." - Shak.
"The brute and boisterous force of violent men." - Milton.
3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
"I like not that loud, boisterous man." - Addison.
4. Vehement; excessive. [R.]
"The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them." - Woodward.
Syn. — Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.

Boisterously
Bois´ter•ous•ly, adv. In a boisterous manner.

Boisterousness
Bois´ter•ous•ness, n. The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

Boistous
Bois´tous, a. Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy. [Obs.] Chaucer. — Bois´tous•ly, adv. — Bois´tous•ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Bokadam
Bo´ka•dam, n. (Zoöl.) See Cerberus.

Bolar
Bo´lar, a. [See Bole clay.] Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

Bold (bold), a. [OE. bald, bold, AS. bald, beald; akin to Icel. ballr, OHG. bald, MHG. balt, D. boud, Goth. balþei boldness, It. baldo. In Ger. there remains only bald, adv. soon. Cf. Bawd, n. ]
1. Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
"Throngs of knights and barons bold." - Milton.
2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. "The bold design leased highly." Milton.
3. In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
"Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice." - Shak.
4. Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as the figures of an author are bold. "Bold tales." Waller.
"The cathedral church is a very bold work." - Addison.
5. Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
"Shadows in painting … make the figure bolder." - Dryden.
6. Steep; abrupt; prominent.
"Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears." - Trumbull.
Bold eagle, (Zoöl.) an Australian eagle ( Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. — To make bold, to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.
Syn. — Courageous; daring; brave; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; valiant; manful; audacious; stouthearted; high-spirited; adventurous; confident; strenuous; forward; impudent.

Bold, v. t. To make bold or daring. [Obs.] Shak.

Bold, v. i. To be or become bold. [Obs.]

Bolden
Bold´en, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boldened . ] To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
"Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, … use less help of diligence and study." - Ascham.

Boldly
Bold´ly, adv. [AS. bealdlice.] In a bold manner.

Boldness
Bold´ness, n. The state or quality of being bold.
Syn. — Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance. { Bol´do, Bol´du } n. (Bot.) A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili ( Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.

Bole, n. [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. bål, Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. Bulge.] The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
"Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean." - Tennyson.

Bole, n. [Etym. doubtful.] An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also a small closet. [Scot.]
"Open the bole wi’speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin." - Sir W. Scott.

Bole, n. A measure. See Boll, n. , 2. Mortimer.

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

bolete n. any fungus of the family Boletaceae. [WordNet 1.5]

Boletic
Bo•let´ic, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus. Boletic acid, an acid obtained from the Boletus fomentarius, variety pseudo-igniarius. Same as Fumaric acid .

Bolivian
Bo•liv´i•an, a. Of or pertaining to Bolivia. — n. A native of Bolivia.

Boll, n. [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel.]
1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. also a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

Boll, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bolled .] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
"The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled." - Ex. ix. 31.

Bollard
Bol´lard, n. [Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard.] An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

Boln, v. i. [OE. bolnen, bollen; cf. Dan. bulne. Cf. Bulge.] To swell; to puff. Holland. { Boln, Boll´en } a. Swollen; puffed out.
"Thin, and boln out like a sail." - B. Jonson.

Bologna
Bo•lo´gna, n.
1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
2. A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. — Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. — Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

Bolognese
Bo•lo•gnese´, a. Of or pertaining to Bologna. — n. A native of Bologna. Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.

Bolognian
Bo•lo´gnian, a. & n. Bolognese. Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.

Bolsa
Bol´sa, n. [Sp., lit., purse. See Bourse.] An exchange for the transaction of business. [Sp. Amer. & Phil. Islands]

Bolsterer
Bol´ster•er, n. A supporter.

Bolt, n. [AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout, OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]
1. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
"Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts." - Sir W. Scott.
"A fool’s bolt is soon shot." - Shak.
2. Lightning; a thunderbolt.
3. A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
4. A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
5. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.]
"Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him." - Shak.
6. A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
7. A bundle, as of oziers. Bolt auger, an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights. — Bolt and nut, a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in illust. above. See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.

Bolt, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
"I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments." - Milton.
3. To swallow without chewing; as to bolt food.
4. (U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
"Let tenfold iron bolt my door." - Langhorn.
"Which shackles accidents and bolts up change." - Shak.

Bolt (bolt; 110), v. i.
1. To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as to bolt out of the room.
"This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, … And oft out of a bush doth bolt." - Drayton.
2. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
"His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads." - Milton.
3. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as the horse bolted.
4. (U.S. Politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

Bolt, adv. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
"[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon." - Thackeray.
Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bolt, n. [From Bolt, v. i.]
1. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as the horse made a bolt.
2. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
"This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere." - Compton Reade.
3. (U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one’s party.

Bolt, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See Borrel, and cf. Bultel.]
1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
"He now had bolted all the flour." - Spenser.
"Ill schooled in bolted language." - Shak.
2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; — with out.
"Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L’Estrange."
3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob. To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer.
"This bolts the matter fairly to the bran." - Harte.
"The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran." - Burke.

Bolt, n. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.

Boltel
Bol´tel, n. See Boultel.

Bolting
Bolt´ing, n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.

Bolting
Bolt´ing, n.
1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; — used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. — Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

Boltonite
Bol´ton•ite, n. (Min.) A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

Boltrope
Bolt´rope, n. (Naut.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

Boltsprit
Bolt´sprit, n. [A corruption of bowsprit.] (Naut.) See Bowsprit.

Bolus
Bo´lus, n. ; pl. Boluses . [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. lump of earth. See Bole, n. , clay.] A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

Bomb, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]
1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
"A pillar of iron … which if you had struck, would make … a great bomb in the chamber beneath." - Bacon.
2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. — Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; — called also mortar vessel. — Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. — Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.

Bomb, v. t. To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.

Bomb, v. i. [Cf. Boom.] To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Bombard
Bom´bard, n. [F. bombarde, LL. bombarda, fr. L. bombus + -ard. Cf. Bumper, and see Bomb.]
1. (Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
"They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses." - Knolles.
2. A bombardment. [Poetic & R.] J. Barlow.
3. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.]
"Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor." - Shak.
4. pl. Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Bombard
Bom´bard, n. [OE. bombarde, fr. F. bombarde.] (Mus.) See Bombardo. [Obs.]

Bombard
Bom•bard´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bombarding.] To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
"Next, she means to bombard Naples." - Burke.
"His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe." - Wood.

Bombardman
Bom´bard•man, n. One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.]
"They … made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady." - B. Jonson.

Bombardment
Bom•bard´ment, n. [F. bombardement.] An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place. { Bom•bar´do, Bom•bar´don } n. [It. bombardo.] (Mus.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

Bombasine
Bom•ba•sine´, n. Same as Bombazine.

Bombastry
Bom´bast•ry, n. Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
"Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all." - Swift.

Bombax
Bom´bax, n. [LL., cotton. See Bombast, n. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also a tree of the genus Bombax. { Bom•ba•zet, Bom•ba•zette´ }, n. [Cf. Bombazine.] A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

Bombilate
Bom´bi•late, v. i. [LL. bombilare, for L. bombitare. See Bomb, n. ] To hum; to buzz. [R.]

Bombinate
Bom´bi•nate, v. i. To hum; to boom.

Bombination
Bom•bi•na´tion, n. A humming or buzzing.

Bombolo
Bom´bo•lo, n. ; pl. Bomboloes . [Cf. It bombola a pitcher.] A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]

Bombproof
Bomb´proof, a. Secure against the explosive force of bombs. — n. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.

Bombshell
Bomb´shell, n. A bomb. See Bomb, n.

Bombycinous
Bom•byc´i•nous, a. [L. bombycinus. See Bombazine.]
1. Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.
2. Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.

Bombyx
Bom´byx (bom"biks), n. [L., silkworm. See Bombazine.] (Zoöl.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

Bon Silène
Bon" Si•lène" . [F.] (Bot.) A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

Bon ton
Bon" ton" . [F., good tone, manner.] The height of the fashion; fashionable society.

Bon vivant
Bon" vi•vant" ; pl. Bons vivants . [F. bon good + vivant, p. pr. of vivre to live.] A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

Bona fide
Bo"na fi"de . [L.] In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.

Bona fides
Bo"na fi"des (bo"na fi"dez). [L.] Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.

Bona peritura
Bo"na per•i•tu"ra . [L.] (Law) Perishable goods. Bouvier.

Bona roba
Bo"na ro"ba . [It., prop. "good stuff."] A showy wanton; a courtesan. Shak { Bo•na´sus, Bo•nas´sus }, n. [L. bonasus, Gr., .] (Zoöl.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.

Bonaci
Bo•na•ci´, n. [Amer. Sp. bonasí, prob. from native name.] (Zoöl.) (a) A large grouper ( Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; — called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper. (b) also any one of several other similar fishes.

Bonair
Bo•nair´, a. [OE., also bonere, OF. bonnaire, Cotgr., abbrev. of debonnaire. See Debonair.] Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]

Bonapartean
Bo•na•part´e•an, a. Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

Bonapartism
Bo´na•part•ism, n. The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.

Bonapartist
Bo´na•part•ist, n. One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.

Bonbon
Bon´bon, n. [F. bonbon, fr. bon bon very good, a superlative by reduplication, fr. bon good.] Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

Bonbonnière
Bon•bon•nière", n. ; pl. -nières (#). [F.] A small fancy box or dish for bonbons.

Bonce, n. [Etymol. unknown.] A boy’s game played with large marbles.

Bonchretien
Bon•chre•tien´, n. [F., good Christian.] A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

Bond, n. [The same word as band. Cf. Band, Bend.]
1. That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
"Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom." - Shak.
2. pl. The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint. "This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds." Acts xxvi.
3. A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as the bonds of fellowship.
"A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind." - Burke.
4. Moral or political duty or obligation.
"I love your majesty According to my bond, nor more nor less." - Shak.
5. (Law) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. Bouvier. Wharton.
6. An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as a government, city, or railway bond.
7. The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as merchandise in bond.
8. (Arch.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
9. (Chem.) A unit of chemical attraction; as oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Arbitration bond. See under Arbitration. — Bond crediter (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. — Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. Burrows. — Bond (or lapof a slate, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. — Bond timber, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.
Syn. — Chains; fetters; captivity; imprisonment.

Bond (bond), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bonded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bonding.]
1. To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
2. (Arch.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

Bond, n. [OE. bond, bonde, peasant, serf, AS. bonda, bunda, husband, bouseholder, from Icel. bondi husbandman, for buandi, fr. bua to dwell. See Boor, Husband.] A vassal or serf; a slave. [Obs. or Archaic]

Bond, a. In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
"By one Spirit are we all baptized .. whether we be Jews or Bentiles, whether we be bond or free." - 1 Cor. xii. 13.

Bond, n.
1. (Elec.) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
2. League; association; confederacy. [South Africa]
"The Africander Bond, a league or association appealing to African, but practically to Boer, patriotism." James Bryce.

Bond servant
Bond" serv•ant . A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
"If thy brother … be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40."

Bond service
Bond" serv•ice . The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
"Their children … upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service." - 1 Kings ix. 21.

Bondage
Bond´age, n. [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a. ]
1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
"The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard." - Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty.
"He must resolve by no means to be … brought under the bondage of onserving oaths." - South.
3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn. — Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.

Bondar
Bon´dar, n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A small quadruped of Bengal ( Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; — called also musk cat.

Bonded
Bond´ed, a. Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. — Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

Bonder
Bond´er, n.
1. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
2. (Masonry) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

Bonder
Bond´er, n. [Norwegian bonde.] A freeholder on a small scale. [Norway] Emerson.

Bondholder
Bond´hold•er, n. A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.

Bondmaid
Bond´maid, n. [ Bond, a. or n. + maid.] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

Bondman
Bond´man, n. ; pl. Bondmen . [ Bond, a. or n. + man.]
1. A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. "To enfranchise bondmen." Macaulay.
2. (Old Eng. Law) A villain, or tenant in villenage.

Bondslave
Bond´slave, n. A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

Bondsman
Bonds´man, n. ; pl. Bondsmen. [ Bond, a. or n. + man.]
1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
"Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen." - Derham.
2. (Law) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

Bondstone
Bond´stone, n. [ Bond, n. + stone.] (Masonry) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

Bondswoman
Bonds´wom•an, n. See Bondwoman.

Bone, n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. ban; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.]
1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as blood and bone. Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify.
2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also any fragment of bony substance. ( pl. ) The frame or skeleton of the body.
3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
5. pl. Dice.
6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
7. Fig.: The framework of anything. A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute. — A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one’s self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). — Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; — used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. - - Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; - - called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. — Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. — Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer. — Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. — Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. — Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; — also called Dippel’s oil. — Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary. — Bone shark (Zoöl.), the basking shark. — Bone spavin. See under Spavin. — Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise. — Bone whale (Zoöl.), a right whale. - - To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Obs.] — To make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low] — To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]

Bone, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Boning.]
1. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.
2. To put whalebone into; as to bone stays. Ash.
3. To fertilize with bone.
4. To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]

Bone, v. t. [F. bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, fr. borgne one-eyed.] To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight.
"Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W." - M. Buchanan.

Boneache
Bone´ache, n. Pain in the bones. Shak.

Boneblack
Bone´black, n. See Bone black, under Bone, n.

Bonedog
Bone´dog, n. (Zoöl.) The spiny dogfish.

Bonefish
Bone´fish, n. (Zoöl.) See Ladyfish.

Boneset
Bone´set, n. (Bot.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort ( Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

Bonesetter
Bone´set•ter, n. One who sets broken or dislocated bones; — commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. — Bone´set•ting, n.

Boneshaw
Bone´shaw, n. (Med.) Sciatica. [Obs.]

Bonetta
Bo•net´ta, n. See Bonito. Sir T. Herbert.

Bongo
Bon´go (bon"go), n. Either of two large antelopes ( Boöcercus eurycercus of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

Bongrace
Bon´grace, n. [F. bon good + grâce grace, charm.] A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]

Bonhomie
Bon•ho•mie´, Bon•hom•mie´, n. [F.] good nature; pleasant and easy manner.

Bonibell
Bon´i•bell, n. See Bonnibel. [Obs.] Spenser.

Boniform
Bon´i•form, a. [L. bonus good + -form.] Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence. Dr. H. More.

Bonify
Bon´i•fy, v. t. [L. bonus good + -fy: cf. F. bonifier.] To convert into, or make, good.
"To bonify evils, or tincture them with good." - Cudworth.

Boniness
Bon´i•ness, n. The condition or quality of being bony.

Boning
Bon´ing, n. [Senses 1 and 2 fr. 1st Bone, sense 3 fr. 3d Bone.]
1. The clearing of bones from fish or meat.
2. The manuring of land with bones.
3. A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

Bonito
Bo•ni´to, n. ; pl. Bonitoes . [Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bainit and bainith.] [Often incorrectly written bonita.] (Zoöl.)
1. A large tropical fish ( Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
2. The skipjack ( Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and ( S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.
3. The medregal ( Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
4. The cobia or crab eater ( Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.

Bonmot
Bon´mot, n. ; pl. Bonsmots . [ F. bon good + mot word.] A witty repartee; a jest.

Bonnaz
Bon´naz, n. A kind of embroidery made with a complicated sewing machine, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.

Bonne (bon), n. (F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

Bonne bouche
Bonne" bouche" ; pl. Bonnes bouches . [F. bon, fem. bonne, good + bouche mouth.] A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.

Bonnet
Bon´net (bon"net), n. [OE. bonet, OF. bonet, bonete. F. bonnet fr. LL. bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of a stuff, and of unknown origin.]
1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] Milton. Shak.
2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
"And pis and bonnets waving high." - Sir W. Scott.
3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as (a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. (b) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc. (c) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks. (d) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft. (e) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
5. (Naut.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt.
6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark ( Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. — Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptraeidae). — Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey ( Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. — Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king’s head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. — To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. — Black bonnet. See under Black. — Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary.

Bonnet
Bon´net, v. i. To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. [Obs.] Shak.

Bonnet
Bon´net, n. (Automobiles) The metal cover or shield over the motor.

Bonnet rouge
Bon•net" rouge" [F.] The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

Bonneted
Bon´net•ed, a.
1. Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.
2. (Fort.) Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a).

Bonnibel
Bon´ni•bel, n. [F. bonne et belle, good and beautiful. Cf. Bellibone.] A handsome girl. [Obs.]

Bonnily
Bon´ni•ly, adv. Gayly; handsomely.

Bonniness
Bon´ni•ness, n. The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness. [R.]

Bonny
Bon´ny, a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] [OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]
1. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
"Till bonny Susan sped across the plain." - Gay.
"Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr." - Burns.
2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
"Be you blithe and bonny." - Shak.
"Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matichime ere he quitted his bowl." - Sir W. Scott.

Bonny
Bon´ny, n. (Mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

Bonnyclabber
Bon´ny•clab•ber, n. [Ir. bainne, baine, milk + clabar mud, mire.] Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; — sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.

Bonspiel
Bon´spiel, n. [Scot.; of uncertain origin.] A curing match between clubs. [Scot.]

Bontebok
Bon´te•bok, n. [D. bont a sort of skin or fur, prop. variegated + bok buck.] (Zoöl.) The pied antelope of South Africa ( Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

Bonus
Bo´nus, n. ; pl. Bonuses . [L. bonus good. Cf. Bonny.]
1. (Law) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. Bouvier.
2. An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
3. Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

Bonze
Bon´ze (bon"ze; 277), n. [Pg. bonzo, fr. Japan. bozu a Buddhist priest: cf. F. bonze.] A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun. The name was given by the Portuguese to the priests of Japan, and has since been applied to the priests of China, Cochin China, and the neighboring countries.

Booby
Boo´by (boo"by), n. ; pl. Boobies (-biz). [Sp. bobo dunce, idiot; cf. L. balbus stammering, E. barbarous.]
1. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A swimming bird ( Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as S. piscator, the red-footed booby. (b) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas. Booby hatch (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch, readily removable. — Booby hut, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett. — Booby hutch, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England. Forby. — Booby trap, a schoolboy’s practical joke, as a shower bath when a door is opened.

Booby
Boo´by (boo"by), a. Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

Boobyish
Boo´by•ish, a. Stupid; dull.

Boodh, n. Same as Buddha. Malcom.

Boohoe
Boo•hoe´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boohooed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Boohooing.] [An imitative word.] To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] Bartlett.

Book (book), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. boc; akin to Goth. boka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. bok, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. bok, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. boc, bece, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. Beech.]
1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. Abbott.
2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
"A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." - Milton.
3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cash book. Book account, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. — Book debt, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. — Book learning, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. "Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false." Burnet. — Book louse (Zoöl.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the Pseudoneuroptera. — Book moth (Zoöl.), the name of several species of moths, the larvae of which eat books. — Book oath, an oath made on The Book, or Bible. — The Book of Books, the Bible. — Book post, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail. — Book scorpion (Zoöl.), one of the false scorpions ( Chelifer cancroides) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. — Book stall, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. — Canonical books. See Canonical. — In one’s books, in one’s favor. "I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp." Addison. — To bring to book. (a) To compel to give an account. (b) To compare with an admitted authority. "To bring it manifestly to book is impossible." M. Arnold. — To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell. — To make a book (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. — To speak by the book, to speak with minute exactness. — Without book. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority.

Book, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Booked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.]
1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
"Let it be booked with the rest of this day’s deeds." - Shak.
2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.]
"Here I am booked for three days more in Paris." - Charles Reade.

Bookbinder
Book´bind•er, n. One whose occupation is to bind books.

Bookbindery
Book´bind•er•y, n. A bookbinder’s shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

Bookbinding
Book´bind•ing, n. The art, process, or business of binding books.

Bookcase
Book´case, n. A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

Bookcraft
Book´craft, n. Authorship; literary skill.

Booked, a.
1. Registered.
2. On the way; destined. [Colloq.]

Booker
Book´er, n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

Bookful
Book´ful, n. As much as will fill a book; a book full. Shak. — a. Filled with book learning. [R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.

Bookholder
Book´hold•er, n.
1. A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

Booking clerk
Book"ing clerk . A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

Booking office
Book"ing of•fice .
1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
2. An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]

Bookish
Book´ish, a.
1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.
2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. — Book´ish•ly, adv. — Book´ish•ness, n.

Bookkeeper
Book´keep•er, n. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

Bookkeeping
Book´keep•ing, n. The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. — Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a corresponding account, in order tha the one entry may check the other; — sometimes called, from the place of its origin, the Italian method. { Book´land•, Bock´land• }, n. [AS. bcland; bc book + land land.] (O. Eng. Law) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

Bookless
Book´less, a. Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

Booklet
Book´let, n. A little book. T. Arnold.

Bookmaker
Book´mak•er, n.
1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
2. (Horse Racing) A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

Bookmark
Book´mark, n. Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

Bookmate
Book´mate, n. [ Book + mate.] A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

Bookmonger
Book´mon•ger, n. A dealer in books.

Bookplate
Book´plate, n. A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

Bookseller
Book´sell•er, n. One who sells books.

Bookselling
Book´sell•ing, n. The employment of selling books.

Bookshelf
Book´shelf, n. ; pl. Bookshelves . A shelf to hold books.

Bookshop
Book´shop, n. A bookseller’s shop. [Eng.]

Bookstall
Book´stall, n. A stall or stand where books are sold.

Bookstand
Book´stand, n.
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.
2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.

Bookstore
Book´store, n. A store where books are kept for sale; — called in England a bookseller’s shop.

Bookwork
Book´work, n.
1. Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.
2. Study; application to books.

Bookworm
Book´worm, n.
1. (Zoöl.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
2. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
"I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there." - Pope.

Booky
Book´y, a. Bookish.

Booly
Boo´ly, n. ; pl. Boolies . [Ir. buachail cowherd; bo cow + giolla boy.] A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

Boom (boom), n. [D. boom tree, pole, beam, bar. See Beam.]
1. (Naut.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
2. (Mech.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
3. A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.]
4. (Mil. & Naval) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.
5. (Lumbering) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. Boom iron, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. — The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

Boom (boom), v. t. (Naut.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

Boom (boom), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]
1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
"At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone." - Tennyson.
2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
"Alarm guns booming through the night air." - W. Irving.
3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
"She comes booming down before it." - Totten.
4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

Boom, n.
1. A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
2. A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; — applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

Boom, v. t. To cause to advance rapidly in price; as to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [Colloq. U. S.]

Boomdas
Boom´das, n. [D. boom tree + das badger.] (Zoöl.) A small African hyracoid mammal ( Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

Boomer
Boom´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, booms.
2. (Zoöl.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.
3. (Zoöl.) A large male kangaroo.
4. One who works up a "boom". [Slang, U. S.]

Booming
Boom´ing, a.
1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
"O’er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar." - Falcone.
2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]

Booming
Boom´ing, n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as the booming of bitterns. Howitt.

Boomkin
Boom´kin, n. (Naut.) Same as Bumkin.

Boomslange
Boom´slang•e, n. [D. boom tree + slang snake.] (Zoöl.) A large South African tree snake ( Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

Boon (boon), n. [OE. bone, boin, a petition, fr. Icel. bon; akin to Sw. & Dan. bän, AS. ben, and perh. to E. ban; but influenced by F. bon good, fr. L. bonus. rad.86. See 2d Ban, Bounty.]
1. A prayer or petition. [Obs.]
"For which to God he made so many an idle boon." - Spenser.
2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
"Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above. James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. )."

Boon, a. [F. bon. See Boon, n. ]
1. Good; prosperous; as boon voyage. [Obs.]
2. Kind; bountiful; benign.
"Which … Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain." - Milton.
3. Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
"A boon companion, loving his bottle." - Arbuthnot.

Boon, n. [Scot. boon, bune, been, Gael. & Ir. bunach coarse tow, fr. bun root, stubble.] The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Boor, n. [D. boer farmer, boor; akin to AS. gebr countryman, G. bauer; fr. the root of AS. ban to inhabit, and akin to E. bower, be. Cf. Neighbor, Boer, and Big to build.]
1. A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
2. A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
3. A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

Boort, n. See Bort.

Booster
Boost´er, n. (Elec.) An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating- current circuit; — so called because used to "boost", or raise, the pressure in the circuit.

Boot (boot), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, AS. bot; akin to Icel. bot, Sw. bot, Dan. bod, Goth. bota, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. rad.255.]
1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
"He gaf the sike man his boote." - Chaucer.
"Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound." - Sir W. Scott.
"Next her Son, our soul’s best boot." - Wordsworth.
2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
"I’ll give you boot, I’ll give you three for one." - Shak.
3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]
"Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot." - Shak.
To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.
"Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot." - Shak.
"A man’s heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot." - Jer. Taylor.

Boot, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; — generally followed by it; as what boots it?
"What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?" - Hooker.
"What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know." - Byron.
"What boots to us your victories?" - Southey.
2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]
"And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg." - Shak.

Boot, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of uncertain origin.]
1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
"So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg." - Bp. Burnet.
3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.]
4. A place for baggage at either end of an old- fashioned stagecoach.
5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. — Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. — Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. — Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. — Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. — Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.

Boot, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.
"Coated and booted for it." - B. Jonson.
2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]

Boot, v. i. To boot one’s self; to put on one’s boots.

Boot, n. Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

Bootblack
Boot´black, n. One who blacks boots.

Booted
Boot´ed, a.
1. Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as a booted squire.
2. (Zoöl.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; — said of the tarsus of some birds.

Bootee
Boot•ee´, n. A half boot or short boot.

Boötes
Bo•ö"tes (bo•o"tez), n. [L. Bootes, Gr. bow•ths herdsman, fr. boy^s, gen. boo•s, ox, cow.] (Astron.) A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.

Booth (booth), n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. buð, Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. buan to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]
1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.
2. A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Boothale
Boot´hale, v. t. & i. [ Boot, for booty + hale.] To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Boothose
Boot´hose, n.
1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.
2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

Boothy
Booth´y, n. See Bothy.

Booting
Boot´ing, n. Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] Sir. J. Harrington.

Booting
Boot´ing, n.
1. A kind of torture. See Boot, n. , 2.
2. A kicking, as with a booted foot. [U. S.]

Bootless
Boot´less, a. [From Boot profit.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer.
"I’ll follow him no more with bootless prayers." - Shak.
— Boot´less•ly, adv. — Boot´less•ness, n.

Bootmaker
Boot´mak•er, n. One who makes boots. — Boot´mak•ing, n.

Boots, n. A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

Boottopping
Boot´top•ping, n.
1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel’s bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
2. (Naut.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

Boottree
Boot´tree, n. [ Boot + tree wood, timber.] An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
"The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees." - Thackeray.

Booty
Boo´ty, n. [Cf. Icel. bti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one’s adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L’Estrange.

Booze, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boozed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Boozing.] [D. buizen; akin to G. bausen, and perh. fr. D. buis tube, channel, bus box, jar.] To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor.
"This is better than boozing in public houses." - H. R. Haweis.

Booze, n. A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.

Boozer
Booz´er, n. One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

Boozy
Booz´y, a. A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

Bopeep
Bo•peep´, n. [ Bo + peep.] The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
"I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among." - Shak.

Borable
Bor´a•ble, a. Capable of being bored. [R.]

Borachte
Bo•rach´te, n. [Sp. borracha a leather bottle for wine, borracho drunk, fr. borra a lamb.] A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.]
"You’re an absolute borachio." - Congreve.

Boracic
Bo•rac´ic, a. [Cf. F. boracique. See Borax.] Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as boracic acid.

Boracous
Bo´ra•cous, a. (Chem.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

Borage
Bor´age, n. [OE. borage (cf. F. bourrache, It. borraggine, borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. ), fr. LL. borra, F. bourre, hair of beasts, flock; so called from its hairy leaves.] (Bot.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Boragewort
Bor´age•wort, n. Plant of the Borage family.

Boraginaceous
Bo•rag•i•na´ceous, a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants ( Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar’s lice, and many pestiferous plants.

Boragineous
Bor•a•gin´e•ous, a. (Bot.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.

Boramez
Bor´a•mez, n. See Barometz.

Bord, n. [See Board, n. ]
1. A board; a table. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Mining) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Bord, n. See Bourd. [Obs.] Spenser.

Bordage
Bord´age, n. [LL. bordagium.] The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Bordar
Bord´ar, n. [LL. bordarius, fr. borda a cottage; of uncertain origin.] A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
"The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm." - J. R. Green.

Bordeaux
Bor•deaux´, a. Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. — n. A claret wine from Bordeaux. { Bor´del, Bor•del´lo } n. [F. bordel, orig. a little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin to E. board, n. See Board, n. ] A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Bordelais
Bor•de•lais´, a. [F.] Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.

Bordeller
Bor´del•ler, n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.

Border
Bor´der, n. [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n. , and cf. Bordure.]
1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
"Upon the borders of these solitudes." - Bentham.
"In the borders of death." - Barrow.
2. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
4. A narrow flower bed. Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; — often used figuratively; as the border land of science. — The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. — Over the border, across the boundary line or frontier.
Syn. — Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.

Border
Bor´der, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bordered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bordering.]
1. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; — with on or upon as Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
2. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
"Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly." - Abp. Tillotson.

Border
Bor´der, v. t.
1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as to border a garment or a garden.
2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
"The country is bordered by a broad tract called the "hot region."" - Prescott.
"Shebah and Raamah … border the sea called the Persian gulf." - Sir W. Raleigh.
3. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Obs.]
"That nature, which contemns its origin, Can not be bordered certain in itself." - Shak.

Bordereau
Bor•de•reau´, n. ; pl. Bordereaux (#). [F.] A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.

Borderer
Bor´der•er, n. One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
"Borderers of the Caspian." - Dyer.

Bordland
Bord´land, n. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + land.] (O. Eng. Law) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

Bordlode
Bord´lode, n. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + lode leading.] (O. Eng. Law) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord’s house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

Bordman
Bord´man, n. [ Bordar (or perh. bord a board) + man.] A bordar; a tenant in bordage. { Bord´rag, Bord´ra•ging } n. [Perh. from OE. bord, for border + raging. Cf. Bodrage.] An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

Boreas
Bo´re•as, n. [L. boreas, Gr. .] The north wind; — usually a personification.

Borecole
Bore´cole, n. [Cf. D. boerenkool (lit.) husbandman’s cabbage.] A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

Boredom
Bore´dom, n.
1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens.
2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

Boree
Bo•ree´, n. Same as Bourree. [Obs.] Swift.

Borer
Bor´er, n.
1. One that bores; an instrument for boring.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. (b) Any bivalve mollusk ( Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances. (c) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple. (d) The hagfish ( Myxine).

Boride
Bo´ride, n. (Chem.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; — formerly called boruret.

Boring
Bor´ing, n.
1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
"One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells." - Tomlinson.
2. A hole made by boring.
3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. — Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

Born (bôrn), p. p. & a. [See Bear, v. t.]
1. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.
"No one could be born into slavery in Mexico." - Prescott.
2. Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as a born liar. "A born matchmaker." W. D. Howells.Born again (Theol.), regenerated; renewed; having received spiritual life. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. — Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [Colloq.]

Bornite
Bor´nite, n. [Named after Von Born, a mineralogist.] (Min.) A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; — also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

Borofluoride
Bo•ro•flu´or•ide, n. [ Boron + fluoride.] (Chem.) A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; — called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.

Boroglyceride
Bo´ro•glyc´er•ide, n. [ Boron + glyceride.] (Chem.) A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.

Boron
Bo´ron (bo"ron), n. [See Borax.] (Chem.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

Borough
Bor´ough, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. baúrgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. rad.95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow, Burg, Bury, n. , Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor, Hauberk.]
1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine.
2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. — Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.

Borough
Bor´ough, n. [See Borrow.] (O. Eng. Law) (a) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. (b) The pledge or surety thus given. Blackstone. Tomlins.

Boroughhead
Bor´ough•head, n. See Headborough. [Obs.]

Boroughmaster
Bor´ough•mas´ter, n. [Cf. Burgomaster.] The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

Borracho
Bor•rach´o, n. See Borachio. [Obs.]

Borrower
Bor´row•er, n. One who borrows.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be." - Shak.

Borsholder
Bors´hold•er, n. [OE. borsolder; prob. fr. AS. borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a. ] (Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

Boruret
Bo´ru•ret, n. (Chem.) A boride. [Obs.]

Borwe
Bor´we, n. Pledge; borrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bos, n. [L., ox, cow.] (Zoöl.) A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

Bosa
Bo´sa, n. [Ar. bza, Pers. bzah: cf. F. bosan.] A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

Boshbok
Bosh´bok, n. [D. bosch wood + bok buck.] (Zoöl.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

Bosky
Bosk´y, a. [Cf. Bushy.]
1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.
2. Caused by boscage.
"Darkened over by long bosky shadows." - H. James.

Bosomy
Bos´om•y (-y), a. Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

Boson
Bo´son (bo"s’n), n. See Boatswain. [Obs.] Dryden.

Bosporus
Bos´po•rus (bos"po•rus), n. [L.] A strait or narrow sea between two seas or a lake and a seas; as the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [Written also Bosphorus.]

Bosquet
Bos´quet, n. See Bosket.

Bossage
Boss´age, n. [F. bossage, fr. bosse. See Boss a stud.]
1. (Arch.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.
2. (Arch.) Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. Gwilt.

Bosset
Bos´set, n. [Cf. Boss a stud.] (Zoöl.) A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

Bossy
Boss´y, a. Ornamented with bosses; studded.

Bossy
Bos´sy, n. [Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose.] A cow or calf; — familiarly so called. [U. S.]

Bostryx
Bos´tryx, n. [NL.; irreg. fr. Gr. a curl.] (Bot.) A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; — called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.

Boswellian
Bos•well´i•an, a. Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

Boswellian
Bos•well´i•an, a. Relating to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson’s biographer, James Boswell, whose hero worship made his narrative a faithful but often uncritical record of details. — Bos´well•ize (#), v. i. & t. — Bos´weel•ism (#). n.

Boswellism
Bos´well•ism, n. The style of Boswell.

Bot, n. (Zoöl.) See Bots. { Bo•tan´ic, Bo•tan´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. botanique. See Botany.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. — Botan´ic•al•ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. — Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.