Bogyar
"Thurhig Bogyar" Holca Ordealman, one of the captains of Coithus Saubon's Knights of the Desert Lion and his Spearbearer.

Bokae
Bokae is an old Ceneian fort on the western frontier of Enathpaneah .

Boksarias
"Pirras Boksarias" Pirras Boksarias is the Ceneian Emperor who standardizing trading protocols within the empire and established a thriving system of markets in its major cities.

Pirras Boksarias

Title(s): Emperor
Lived: 2395 - 2437
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Ceneian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Emperor of Cenei
Books: mentioned only

Pirras Boksarias

Title(s): Emperor
Lived: 2395 - 2437
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Ceneian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Emperor of Cenei
Books: mentioned only

Bompothur
Nilnameshi cook working in the Andiamine Heights.

Book
"Book I: Chapter 8"

Summary

Autumn, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , the Northern Jiünati Steppe Yursalka is awoken in his yaksh by a sound. He hears it again, realizing that someone is throwing stones at his yaksh. He thinks it’s his son, Ogatha , who was caught in the rains. Curious, but cautious, he rises, grabs his sword and steps outside. It is stormy. He picks up a stone and lightning flashes, revealing that the stone is actually a section of a child’s finger. He looks around wildly and another lightning flash reveals Cnaiür , standing a dozen yards from him. Cnaiür tells him he found his son wandering the Steppe and throws Ogatha’s head at Yursalka. Yursalka attacks him. Cnaiür blocks his attack and disembowels him. Yursalka falls to the muddy ground, and Cnaiür tells him that he is his end, that he will slaughter his children and blot of his name and legacy until he is nothing. Other Utemot come from their tents, and Cnaiür tells them of Yursalka’s betrayal and dares anyone to challenge him. Yursalka’s family gather around him, and Cnaiür begins killing them. The Utemot do not interfere because it is their way of dealing with traitors. Late Autumn, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk, Momemn Maithanet ’s declaration of the Holy War half a year earlier had resulted in thousands arriving in Momemn. Such is the fervor that many men sold their wives and children to become Men of the Tusk. Some Men of the Tusk commit atrocities or are the victim to them. Calmemunis , Tharschilka , and Kumrezzer sign the Indenture , and Xerius III provisions them. However, there is no clear leader, no organization. This host, which comes to be called the Vulgar Holy War , departs Momemn. Maithanet is angry, and the main contingents of the Holy War are ready to begin their journey to Momemn. Gotian , Grandmaster of the Shrial Knights , intercepts the Vulgar Holy War north of Gielgath with a summons to Maitanet, but Calmemunis refuses the answer, finding it troubling that the Shriah is having doubts on the God’s judgement. The Vulgar Holy War continue south at a slow pace, attracting camp followers. By time it reaches Anserca , the host has become more unruly and raids the countryside for food. General Martemus , who has been shadowing the Vulgar Holy War, attempts to restrain them, but is driven back. Calmemunis blames Xerius for the stop of supplies, but Maithanet ordered the edicts to compel the Vulgar Holy War back to Momemn. He also issues other edicts, rescinding the Shrial Remission, and threatening Shrial Censure to all in the Vulgar Holy War should they continue to march. These events cause the host to stop, and for a time, the Great Names think about returning to Momemn. However, they come across a supply train, apparently heading to Asgilioch . Seeing it as a sign of the God, the Vulgar Holy War continue its march, though some return to Momemn. The host eventually comes upon Asgilioch. The commander of the fortress, Prophilas , offers dinner invitations to the Great Names, and they accept after receiving hostages. Within Asgilioch, they are arrested and presented with the Shriah’s Warrant, but Calmemunis warns Prophilas that the God is on his side, and quotes Inri Sejenus about those who interfere with the God’s will. Prophilas releases them, and the Vulgar Holy War crosses the Unaras Mountains into Fanim lands. While Conphas is writing a message, Skeaös comes to him, telling him that the Ainoni have arrived. Conphas is surprised; they were not expected for another day. Since the departure of the Vulgar Holy War, ten thousand Thunyeri and forty thousand Tydonni have arrived, but the respective leaders of the contingents, King Rauschang and Gothyelk , refused to sign the Indenture . Conphas hands his message to his dispatch, an order for Martemus to resume his patrols south of Momemn. Conphas had installed himself at the lowest level of the Andiamine Heights , and he and Skeaös make the climb up to where his uncle is meeting the Ainoni. Conphas notes that Skeaös shows no sign of strain during the long climb. Skeaös briefs him on their way to the Privy Council, and says that Xerius wanted to exclude Conphas until Eleäzaras requested his presence. Conphas makes Skeaös tell him how critical he is to his uncle’s plans and demands to know why he had lied. Skeaös says that he fears for his soul. Conphas wonders if Skeaös is conspiring with his grandmother to sow dissension between Conphas and Xerius to save the Holy War. Conphas tells Skeaös that the restoration the Nansur Empire for his soul is a bargain. In the Privy Chamber, Xerius dismisses everyone but Cememketri , Skeaös and Conphas. He asks Conphas how he means to snare Eleäzaras. Conphas knows his uncle is afraid because no one knows why the Scarlet Spires have joined the Holy War. Conphas says that they know too little to snare him and it is best to bargain in good faith, and Xerius says that is his thought as well. Eleäzaras and Chepheramunni are announced into the room. Xerius asks why have the Scarlet Spires joined the Holy War, and Eleäzaras says it’s because they were purchased. Conphas thinks this is a lie because even the Thousand Temples could not afford such a price. Eleäzaras says that Chepheramunni will sign the Indenture, but several conditions must be met first. Xerius protests, and Eleäzaras interrupts him, saying he heard his arguments. He asks why had they provisioned the Vulgar Holy War. Xerius says to end their depredations, and Eleäzaras says that is unlikely and that they wanted the Vulgar Holy War destroyed to gain control of the Holy War. He says that if the Nansur should betray them, nothing would save them for the Scarlet Spire’s wrath. Xerius turns to Skeaös and Cememketri warns that Eleäzaras is far from High Ainon to make threats. Eleäzaras ignores him, turning to address Conphas. He praises his unprecedented victory over the Scylvendi . Conphas smiles, but tells him that Cememketri is right; by joining the Holy War, the Scarlet Spires will be surrounded by fanatics. They’ll need every friend they can get. Eleäzaras says they need no one. During their negotiation, Conphas becomes convinced that the reason the Scarlet Spires joined the Holy War is because they have been in a secret war with the Cishaurim . Eleäzaras demanded that in exchange for Chepheramunni signing the Indenture, the Nansur must surrender all their intelligence of the Cishaurim to the Scarlet Spires. Conphas thinks that Maithanet had to know of the Scarlet Spires’ war, and wonders what game he is playing. Conphas receives news that the Vulgar Holy War had been annihilated on the Plains of Mengedda . Two couriers came to Momemn, one delivering the heads of Calmemunis, Tharschilka, and Kumrezzer, and another delivering Conphas a secret message from Skauras : We cannot count the carcasses of your idolatrous kin, so many have been felled by the fury of our righteous hand. Praised be the Solitary God. Know that House Ikurei has been heard. Conphas is awed by what he and his uncle had accomplished, and that only Gods could do such an act.

book
"Infobox book" A means of generating random numerical results for the purposes of gambling. The first references to number-sticks reach as far back as ancient Shigek . The most common variations consist of two sticks typically referred to as the Fat and the Skinny. A groove is carved all the way through the Fat so that the Skinny can drop up and down its interior length. The Skinny is then capped on either end to prevent it from falling out. Numerical values are marked along the length of the Fat, so that when the sticks are thrown, the Skinny can indicate a result.

Book I: Chapter 1

Summary

Midwinter, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Carythusal Drusas Achamian , a Mandate sorcerer and spy meets with Geshrunni , a captain of the Scarlet Spires ’ warrior-slaves, the Javreh in a tavern in the Ainoni city of Carythusal . Geshrunni reveals that he knows Achamian is a sorcerer. Achamian, thinking that he’s about to be exposed prepares to unleash his sorcery , but Geshrunni produces a Chorae , a small anti-magic sphere. Achamian realizes that Geshrunni is on his own at the tavern and admits to being a spy for the School of Mandate and asks Geshrunni what he wants, to which the Captain replies that he wants “Truth.” In the end, Geshrunni releases Achamian and agrees to spy for him on the Scarlet Spires. Geshrunni reveals to Achamian that ten years previously, the Cishaurim , the Sorcerer-Priests of the Fanim , assassinated the Grandmaster of the Scarlet Spires, Sasheoka . The meeting ends and while Geshrunni is walking home he realizes that he’s being followed and tries to ambush his follower. He throws a Chorae at the man thinking that he’s a Scarlet Spires sorcerer, but the man catches the Chorae and is not affected by it. Geshrunni is struck and falls down hard. He watches the man’s face loosen, then flex. Back at his room, Achamian is having a Seswatha’s Dream , he is witnessing events from 2,000 years prior. Seswatha fought the No-God during the Apocalypse where he witnessed the death of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II , High King of Kûniüri . With his dying wrods, Celmomas prophesied the return an Anasûrimbor “at the end of the world.” Achamian awakens weeping. Geshrunni, having been tortured by the skin-spy and confessed all he knows, now seems to be missing his face and gets thrown him in a river to drown. The next morning, Achamian uses the Cants of Calling to communicate with Atyersus , the citadel of the Mandate. He’s ordered to return home due to a matter involving the Thousand Temples .

Point of view

- Drusas Achamian
- Geshrunni

Appearing

- Skin-spy
- Seswatha
- Anasûrimbor Celmomas II
- Sranc
- Chiki

Mentioned

- Sasheoka
- No-God
- Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti

Appearing

- High Ainon
- Carythusal
- Holy Leper
- Worm
- Mouth of the Worm
- River Sayut

Mentioned

- Temple of Exorietta
- Nron
- Kian
- Ce Tydonn
- Conriya
- Ancient North
- Trysë
- Golgotterath
- Kûniüri
- River Tywanrae
- Library of Sauglish
- Atyersus

Book I: Chapter 2

Summary

Late Winter, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Atyersus At Atyersus, Achamian is called before the Mandate Quorum, where he’s informed that the new Shriah of the Thousand Temples , Maithanet , has called for a Holy War . The target of the Holy War is not yet known but they speculate that it is either the Schools or the Fanim . Simas , an old teacher of Achamian councils that a Holy War against the Fanim and their sorcerous priests, the Cishaurim , could not succeed. Therefore the target has to be the Schools. Achamian is ordered to go to Sumna and discover Maithanet’s true intent. He claims that he has no more contacts in Sumna but he remembers Esmenet , a whore he used to visit. And there is also someone else. Simas has informed Nautzera , a senior member of the Quorum, that Achamian does have an asset in Sumna: Inrau , a young priest. Inrau was once Achamian’s student, but he defected from the Mandate. Achamian objects but Nautzera reminds him that Inrau should have been eliminated for compromising the Gnosis . Achamian, who helped Inrau escape, is blackmailed into using him as an informant. He reluctantly agrees and leaves for Sumna. At a private meeting between Simas and Nautzera, we are informed that the Mandate’s agents are being eliminated. Nautzera wanted to tell Achamian of that fact but Simas told him it would only ensure that he would refuse to seek out Inrau. They conclude that, since their spies are taken out so effortlessly, there must be a traitor amongst the Mandate.

Point of view

- Drusas Achamian
- Seidru Nautzera

Appearing

- Polchias Simas

Mentioned

- Maithanet
- Paro Inrau
- No-God
- Seswatha
- Mekeritrig
- Nersei Proyas
- Esmenet
- Parthelsus

Appearing

- Atyersus
- Nron

Mentioned

- Golgotterath
- Sumna
- High Ainon
- Kian
- River Tywanrae
- Akksersia
- Shimeh
- Dagliash
- Ancient North
- Library of Sauglish
- Trysë
- Myclai
- Kelmeöl
- Ce Tydonn

Book I: Chapter 3

Summary

Early Spring, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , En Route to Sumna On a boat sailing across the Meneanor Sea to Sumna, Achamian awakens from a Seswatha Dream . He dreamed of the dragon Skafra . On the deck, Nroni sailors pray to the God of dice, Momas , Aspect of storm and sea. The boat reaches the harbour of Sumna, and from its railing Achamian muses about the Hagerna , which forms the administrative centre of the Thousand Temples ; and the Junriüma , the holy shrine where the Tusk rests. He remembers his former student Inrau and the excessive enthusiasm with which he spoke of the Hagerna. He realizes that Maithanet should be feared because he carries a “plague whose primary symptom is certainty.” The captain of the ship joins him at the railing and warns him that Sorcerers are not welcome in Sumna, the holiest city of Inrithism . The Inrithi view sorcerers as heretics and sinners. Achamian remembers himself as a child and the first time he “experienced” seeing the onta , the very fabric of existence which only the Few could see. He thinks about the Mandate and how its hated by the other Schools for its possession of the Gnosis , the sorcery of the Nonmen of the Ancient North . He walks through the city and thinks about the Tusk. The Tusk is the most ancient human text in Eärwa , and the premier Holy artifact of Inrithism. It had always been installed in Sumna, making it the Holiest city in Inrithi tradition. He stumbles onto a crowd and discovers that Maithanet has called the faithful to reveal the object of the Holy War . He realizes that the Mandate Quorum must have known this and purposefully hid it from him to manipulate him into going to Sumna. In bed with a prostitute named Esmenet , Achamian experiences the Fevers again; a disease that possessed him six years ago and almost killed him. Esmenet bitterly says that her daughter died that same year. He confides in her his plans to turn Inrau and says that she must find him the following day. Esmenet says the two of them, harlot and sorcerer, make a sad couple. Achamian finds Inrau in a tavern the next morning and greets him. Inrau is startled and notices the Shrial Knights nearby. He thinks it’s good to see Achamian and remembers that he regretted leaving the Mandate for some time. Achamian tells Inrau that he’s been sent to spy on Maithanet. Inrau reminds Achamian that he promised to leave him alone and Achamian tearfully says that the world has a habit of breaking the back of his promises. The two argue for a while until they are interrupted by a Shrial Knight called Sarcellus . Pretending to be Inrau’s drunk uncle, Achamian provokes Sarcellus and then falls to the ground when the latter slaps him. The tavern erupts and Sarcellus leaves them. Later, Achamian is standing in the central square of the Hagerna among a great crowd, he’s waiting for Maithanet to declare the target of the Holy War. Maithanet appears and denounces Fanimry as an affront to the God , and the Kianene followers of a False Prophet and an obscene race. Achamian is moved to delirious wonder by the man’s voice and his Fever strikes him again. Maithanet continues on to declare the object of the Holy Way is to free the Holy city of Shimeh , the birth place of the Latter Prophet , from the hands of the Kianene and their Cishaurim priests. Achamian wonders why Maithanet would declare a war that could not be won. He becomes delirious and the crowd lifts him thinking he’s having a religious experience. He’s recognized by another former student of his, Prince Nersei Proyas of Conriya . Before the two can speak Maithanet comes before Achamian and tells him that his kind are not welcome there. Achamian flees realizing that Maithanet is one of the Few. Proyas is outraged at seeing Achamian in the Holy city even though he once loved him. He is led to the Tusk by Incheiri Gotian , the Grandmaster of the Shrial Knights. He prays before Maithanet joins him and asks who it had been that dared to pollute his presence, referring to Achamian.

Point of view

- Drusas Achamian
- Paro Inrau
- Nersei Proyas

Appearing

- Captain
- Esmenet
- Cutias Sarcellus
- Maithanet
- Incheiri Gotian

Mentioned

- Skafra
- Momas
- Gaeterius
- Seidru Nautzera
- Mimara
- Seswatha
- Ikurei Xerius III
- Geshrunni
- Inri Sejenus
- Fane
- Gierra
- Nersei Eukernas II

Book I: Chapter 4

Summary

Mid-Spring, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Sumna Sumna and the rest of the Three Seas are in the grips of the Holy War , and the propaganda by the Shrial apparati. Everywhere men, nobles and caste -menials, are preparing to go to war. “ Maithanet had called, and the entire Three Seas had answered. The back of the heathen would be broken. Holy Shimeh would be cleansed.” Meanwhile, Esmenet has some bitter memories regarding her daughter . She thinks about her love for Achamian (and Achamian’s love for her), and the impossibility of stopping to take custom while he’s with her; she needs to keep her customers interested, because Akka eventually always leaves. They are falling into their old habits, when there’s a knock on the door. It’s Inrau , who has a bit of news for Akka: Maithanet has asked the Scarlet Spires to join the Holy War. Akka is quick to explain that the presence of a School is needed to get the army to Shimeh. A sorcerous counter for the Cishaurim is a necessity. Furthermore, it is to be expected that the Emperor will try to subvert the Holy War to his own needs; by employing the Scarlet Spires they can bypass a dependency on the Imperial Saik , the School indentured to the Emperor of Nansur . Esmenet points out that Maithanet must know something that would make the Scarlet Spires susceptible to the offer. Akka realizes that Maithanet knows about Sasheoka ’s murder by the Cishaurim, which greatly disturbs him. He manages to get Inrau to get closer to Maithanet himself and to spy on him, because he shows himself to be altogether too canny to be what he seems. Inrau thinks to himself about the two different paths of his life: “Through the wash, he could hear the supplicants wail. Arched into shapes of pain and sorrow, their song ran across the wet stone and cupped his thoughts in stretched notes. Hymns of suffering. Two voices: one pitched high and plaintive, asking why must we suffer, always why; the other low, filled with the brooding grandeur of the Thousand Temples and bearing the gravity of truth — that men were at one with suffering and ruin, that tears were the only holy waters.” Inrau feels indebted to Achamian, because he knows that by allowing him to escape the Mandate , Achamian saved his life. Inrau goes to pray at an altar devoted to Onkis , “the Singer-in-the-Dark, the Aspect who stood at the heart of all men, moving them to forever grasp more than they could hold.” Inrau asks whether Onkis will forgive him for returning to the Mandate, and asks for strength when he hears voices behind him, and the flapping of wings. Looking for the source, he eventually steps out on the balcony. Inrau realizes he is being confronted by the Consult ; Lord Sarcellus and Mujonish , another Shrial Knight Inrau knows are also there. Sarcellus reveals that Inrau was spying for Achamian. Inrau is horrified that Consult is not only real, but much more up to speed than Akka knows, or even fears. Inrau plays for time, in hopes of unleashing some sorcery . When he does, Mujonish grabs him by the hair, but “blasphemy tumbled from his lips.” Inrau turns to Mujonish and punches two fingers through his chain-mail and breastbone to seize Mujonish’s heart. Inrau utters more “impossible words” , and the blood that is strewn about bursts into incandescent flame. Inrau striks out towards the Synthese , which ducks with a shriek. “Blinding beads of blood cracked bare stone.” As he turns towards Sarcellus, Mujonish’s corpse distracts him: “The Shrial Knight had stumbled to his knees, wiping his bloody hands on his surcoat. Then, as though spilling from a bladder, his face simply fell apart, dropping outward, unclutching … No mark. Not the faintest whisper of sorcery. But how?” Sarcellus pummels the distracted Inrau, and uses a Chorae to subdue him. The Synthese orders Inrau to relent, but Inrau refuses. He uses further sorcery, but the Synthese is far too powerful. Oh, Akka! It’s worse than you dared imagine. Inrau manages to lunge towards the balcony, not to kill the Synthese perched on the railing, but himself.

Book I: Chapter 5

Summary

Early Summer, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Momemn Emperor Ikurei Xerius III , is preparing for a major audience in the Imperial Audience Hall. He’s discussing the course to take with Skeaös , an old slave and Xerius’ Prime Counsel. Xerius hints that his nephew, Conphas , is on a dangerous and important mission. Skeaös tries to sooth the Emperor’s nerves. Xerius notices something strange about Skeaös, even though he’s not sure what it is. The entourage he is about to receive are the lords from Conriya , headed by Nersei Calmemunis . The Men of the Tusk who had, until then, been showing up outside the walls of Momemn were rabble, but not Calmemunis. The great names will be the “keel and the rudder” of the Holy War , and Xerius intends to be the pilot. Calmemunis, who can’t see Xerius up in the shadows of the dais, immediately sets Xerius nerves on edge by asking about Conphas’ war; it turns out Conphas is on a military campaign against the Scylvendi , but Xerius downplays it as a punitive expedition. Calmemunis isn’t convinced. Xerius goes on to nettle Calmemunis about Proyas , who apparently had him whipped for impiety before a battle, and then manages to offend Calmemunis and his officers further by asking them to sign the Indenture, a charter stipulating that all the conquests the Holy War makes in Kian will be returned to the Nansur Empire . The Conriyan lords refuse, and accuse the emperor of playing games “with what is holy” . Xerius compounds the Conriyans anger by threatening to starve them if they don’t sign the Indenture, and things start to get out of hand when Xerius is suddenly shat upon by a sparrow, and completely loses his temper. He orders his guards to shoot all the sparrows down from the upper galleries. As the arrows skitter down, all is in chaos. Afterwards, Xerius descends the dais and picks up a skewered sparrow, thinking “A mere bird would never dare offend an emperor.” He calmly hands the sparrow to Calmemunis, saying “take this as a token of my esteem.” Xerius’ augur manages to convince him that being shat upon is a good omen; as a balance to great prosperity/good fortune “some token blight must always accompany triumph.” Xerius comes upon his mother, Ikurei Istriya , “who moved with the willowy grace of a fifteen-year-old virgin, despite her sixty whorish years.” Xerius immediately notices something odd in her manner as well. Istriya immediately upbraids him for treating the Conriyans so, as she fears they will sign the Indenture with Xerius’ blood. But Xerius is unmoved. He will feed the Conriyans enough to keep them alive, but not enough to march. Through their wrangling, Istriya realizes that the Indenture is a pretext, something to protect Xerius from Shrial censure when he wants to retake the conquests made by the Men of the Tusk. That’s why Conphas is on a campaign against the Scylvendi: their border must be subdued in order to free the necessary manpower. Istriya loses it, when Xerius derides her fears, and finally has to be dragged away by her eunuch. And Xerius is informed that the Fanim have sent an emissary … A Cishaurim . Xerius meets the Cishaurim with three sorcerers from the Imperial Saik , headed by Cememketri , and a dozen Chorae -bowmen in the galleries. Cememketri informs Xerius that three sorcerers are enough to protect the emperor. The Cishaurim take out their own eyes, and they wear Shigeki salt asps around their necks. These serve as their eyes. Interestingly enough, Cememketri can’t see the Mark of Sorcery on the Cishaurim. The Cishaurim identifies himself as Mallahet , adopted son of Kisma , of the tribe Indara-Kishauri . This horrifies Cememketri, who urges Xerius to flee as they are all in great danger. Apparently, “Mallahet is second only to Seokti in the Cishaurim. And only then because their Prophetic Law bars non-Kianene from the position of Heresiarch. Even the Cishaurim are fearful of his power!” Oddly enough, Mallahet’s arms are scarred like a Scylvendi. Xerius refuses to budge, however. Mallahet conjures an ephemeral face over his own; the face is that of Skauras , the Sapatishah-Governor of Shigek, for over four decades the enemy of the Empires Southern Columns. In this way, Xerius can talk to Skauras directly. Xerius proposes that fanatics are hard to deal with, so he seeks common ground with Skauras, especially when he learns that Maithanet doesn’t need the Imperial Saik as he’s already got the Scarlet Spires . Xerius intends to teach the Men of the Tusk to respect the Fanim, so he can gain control of it again.

Book I: Chapter 6

Summary

Early Summer, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , the Jiünati Steppe Cnaiür , Chieftain of the Utemot , meets with the other Scylvendi chieftains, enraged that he had not been summoned for the war council. He knows that many of them heard the rumors of his father’s death long ago and that is the source of their contempt for him. He tells Xunnurit , their King-of-Tribes, to exercise patience in dealing with Ikurei Conphas , who has invaded the Steppe after a series of provocations against the Scylvendi. Xunnurit, however, thinks Cnaiür’s plan is overly-cautious and that they must attack immediately. Cnaiür relates how through patience, they had defeated the Kianese at Zirkirta . Oknai One-Eye , Chieftain of the Munuäti , asks Cnaiür how long must they wait because the droughts will begin soon, and they need to drive their herds to summer pastures, and many chieftains agree with this. Cnaiür says that Conphas had brought lots of provisions because he also expects a war of patience. Xunnurit again dismisses Cnaiür’s advice and says that tomorrow, the Scylvendi will attack. Riding to battle the next morning, Cnaiür wonders about Conphas’s plan, certain that there is something amiss. Cnaiür comes upon a ridge and studies the Nansur army, which remains close to their encampment rather than on the banks of the River Kiyuth . His uncle, Bannut , also wonders this. Cnaiür explains that Conphas wants a pitched battle and orders Bannut to go to Xunnurit and find out what he wants the Utemot to do. Bannut returns with another Utemot tribesman, Yursalka , who tells Cnaiür that Xunnurit wants them to attack the Nansur’s left flank, which is composed of the Nasueret, rumored to be the finest soldiers in the Nansurium. The Scylvendi cross the Kiyuth and arrange themselves into a crescent without challenge, again making Cnaiür question what Conphas is planning. Before the Scylvendi charge, Bannut tells Cnaiür that he will be measured today and that “measure is unceasing.” Cnaiür is shocked, and tells his uncle that it is not the time to bring up old grudges. Cnaiür leads the first wave of his Utemot into a charge against the Nansur. Cnaiür is unhorsed, and the Nansur ranks are largely unbroken. When he looks for the second wave, he sees that they remain behind. Suspecting treachery, Cnaiür rounds on Bannut, who tells him that he killed him to rid the Utemot of Cnaiür, who had been an accomplice to his father’s death as well lover to his killer. Cnaiür strangles him and rallies the surviving Utemot from the first charge. Their battle with the Nasueret draws the second wave to relieve them, and the Nasueret flee. Cnaiür rushes to a hill and sees that the Nansur’s right flank is about to be overwhelmed while the Nansur’s camp is on fire. Then Cnaiür spots a Nansur column in the center that bears a Nasueret standard, and realizes Conphas had deceived them into believing their best troops were on the flanks, not the center. The Scylvendi’s own center has been driven to the other side of the Kiyuth. Balait , Cnaiür’s brother-in-law, comes to him and says they need to reassemble and strike while the field is confused. Cnaiür tells him of his suspicions and that Conphas sacrificed his flanks so he could have the center. Cnaiür understands Conphas’s plan: he knows that the Chorae bowmen were behind the Scylvendi center. As he tries to warn Balait, the Imperial Saik strike. Rising into the sky, the Schoolmen bathe charging Scylvendi in flames. The battle quickly becomes a rout for the Scylvendi. Cnaiür is protected from their magic by his Chorae, but Balait is burned to cinder. Cnaiür flees toward the Kiyuth and sees Yursalka and other Utemot ride by. He calls out to Yursalka but he ignores him. As Cnaiür swims across the Kiyuth, cutting off his brigandine, something hits him in the head, and Cnaiür loses consciousness. He regains consciousness, hearing three looters. He hides his Chorae in the mud, and pretends to be dead. One inspects him, finding nothing. He loses consciousness once more. He wakes in the morning, and crawls away from the bank of the Kiyuth and rests upon a dead horse. He feels vindicated about his early misgivings. He thinks about Bannut’s words and wonders how many other Utemot think as his uncle had. Then he hears two men talking, and Cnaiür once again plays dead. He realizes that one of the men is Conphas. Cnaiür wants to rise and attack him, but stays, listening how Conphas relates to Martemus how he knew his tactics would work because the Scylvendi are static and that “war is intellect.” Conphas tells Martemus that the battle they fought was the first engagement of the Holy War and they leave. Cnaiür thinks back to twenty-nine years ago. In the dimness of his father’s yaksh, his father and other tribesmen talk about the insolence of the Kuöti . A slave steps forward and proposes a wager to Skiöath , shocking everyone but Cnaiür. Skiöath says that he has already failed his gambit, and the slave replies that he will wager his life against Skiöath and that everyone wonders about his strength. Skiöath laughs and says that he has already been measured. The slave replies that measure is unceasing, and Cnaiür, as instructed before by the slave, asks his father if he is afraid. Skiöath glares at him, and asks the slave, Moënghus , what’s his wager. This leads to a duel where Skiöath is killed. At night, Cnaiür flees, avoiding the Nansur pickets.

Book I: Chapter 7

Summary

Mid-Spring, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Momemn On a triumph, Ikurei Conphas dismounts beneath the Xatantian Arch, Martemus at his side. He thinks that not even Xatantius I had pacified the Scylvendi . His victory over them convinced Conphas that he is more than a man. Priests of Gilgaöl smear Conphas’s limbs with lion blood and wash it off, cleaning his symbolic wounds. To Conphas’s surprise, they are followed by Shrial Priests who anoint him in oil and proclaim him Shield-of-the-Tusk. He thinks that Skeaös had arranged this to tap into the Holy War fever. The Scylvendi are as heathen as the Kianese . The Battle of Kiyuth was a divine revelation to Conphas. After the battle, Conphas took Scylvendi captives and arranged for them to overhear his officers laud the tribes that had assisted the Nansur . He then allowed the captives to escape to ensure that the Scylvendi will not become unified for some time. His elation at the revelation dissipated over time, marked by disputes of his cartographers, mathematicians and Imperial Saik over the placing of the Scylvendi heads to Momemn. When he arrived in Momemn, he had expected cheering crowds, but instead found the rabble of the Holy War blocking his path. He used his Kidruhil to clear a path, and small battle ensued where twenty of his men were killed. Conphas was forced to enter Momemn by boat. So far, only three Great Names were in Momemn: Calmemunis , Tharschilka , and Kumrezzer . Conphas hates the Holy War because it distracts from his victory over the Scylvendi. Conphas and Martemus march, his soldiers on either side of them. Behind them, his bodyguards drag his prisoner, while ahead, Ikurei Xerius III awaits in the Allosian Forum . Conphas thinks about how his grandmother prepared him for his birthright as Emperor of Nansur, raising him among the intrigue of the imperial court. He could almost love her for it. Conphas thinks that if all things were equal, he should have returned to Momemn to conquer it before his uncle could kill him as a rival. But the Battle of Kiyuth and the Holy War made Conphas more useful than dangerous to him. He asks Martemus his opinion on what Xerius is thinking. Martemus thinks that he is frighten, and that Conphas should be afraid. Conphas dismisses this, saying that his uncle considers him an old fear, and that he needs him. Martemus says that Conphas accomplished much and that his army is willing to die for him, should that make him a new fear? Conphas thinks Marmetus is suggesting rebellion and is intrigued by this idea. As they begin to climb the stairs, Conphas thinks about who would support his uncle in a coup. Stabbing him with his ceremonial dagger would be without malice. At the top of the stairs, Xerius proclaims that Conphas had brought glory to House Ikurei . Conphas is humble, but distant. He does not kiss his uncle’s knee. He prepares to kill Xerius, but he moves pass him, asking about Conphas’s naked prisoner. Conphas says he is Xunnurit , the Scylvendi King-of-Tribes. Xerius says he will have him blinded, castrated and bound to his throne. Conphas then notices his grandmother, finding that there is something different about her. She says that Conphas left an heir to an Empire and returned as a god, shocking everyone. Conphas replies humbly, but is thrilled. Conphas asks what Xerius is going to do with the Men of the Tusk, and Xerius says that matter has been concluded. Xerius says that Conphas and Istriya will accompany him upriver to see the transport of his new monument, and that Conphas must be patience; this is not Kiyuth and they are not the Scylvendi. Conphas asks what he means, and Xerius says that he could not ferry enough of Conphas’s men into the city, so he dressed his own men as Conphas’s. Conphas kneels and kisses his uncle’s knee. Xerius, Istriya and Conphas are on a galley sailing the River Phayus . It is the day after Conphas’s triumph. The transport of his monument is the ostentatious reason for their journey, and his true reason is to tell them his plans concerning the Holy War. Xerius grows annoyed at his mother’s constant doting over Conphas and wonders if she is trying to get him killed. The galley suddenly stops after hitting a sandbar. The captain comes to Xerius to offer apologies. Xerius berates him and orders him taken below and whipped. Xerius suggests they retreat from the sun, and they go to the back of galley, where the canopy shades them. Conphas tells him that Men of the Tusk have sacked Jarutha and that the Nansur are at the brink of war. Istriya asks what Xerius is going to do. Xerius tells them that Calmemunis will sign the Indenture tomorrow. Istriya is surprised, though Xerius thinks she is pretending. Conphas says the others will sign as well. They fear the arrival of the others and think themselves invincible with the God on their side. Why should they share the glory? Istriya tells Xerius to delay provisioning them to prevent them from marching. Xerius says they should march, and dismisses the slaves after Conphas’s suggestion. Conphas says that the Padirajah had asked Xerius for a gesture. Xerius is shocked by his nephew’s penetration, and demands to know how he knew. Conphas says that is what he would do, and that Skauras and Kian needs to know that the Nansur are not fanatics. Xerius is not convinced, and threatens to send Conphas to Ziek . Conphas admits Skauras told him and that he had always remained in contact with Kian. Istriya warns that Skauras will try to sow dissension in the Nansurium and tells them that House Ikurei is most important. Xerius says that he will sacrifice a Holy War to recover the Nansur Empire’s lost lands. Istriya thinks he’s mad, but Conphas sees reason in the plan. Sacrificing the rabble of the Holy War will teach the Men of the Tusk to fear the Fanim , which will increase their dependency to the Nansur Empire. Istriya asks what happens then. Xerius says that if Maithanet will have the Men of the Tusk sign the Indenture, he would give them Conphas. The Holy War will perish before it reaches Shimeh .

Book I: Chapter 8

Summary

Autumn, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , the Northern Jiünati Steppe Yursalka is awoken in his yaksh by a sound. He hears it again, realizing that someone is throwing stones at his yaksh. He thinks it’s his son, Ogatha , who was caught in the rains. Curious, but cautious, he rises, grabs his sword and steps outside. It is stormy. He picks up a stone and lightning flashes, revealing that the stone is actually a section of a child’s finger. He looks around wildly and another lightning flash reveals Cnaiür , standing a dozen yards from him. Cnaiür tells him he found his son wandering the Steppe and throws Ogatha’s head at Yursalka. Yursalka attacks him. Cnaiür blocks his attack and disembowels him. Yursalka falls to the muddy ground, and Cnaiür tells him that he is his end, that he will slaughter his children and blot of his name and legacy until he is nothing. Other Utemot come from their tents, and Cnaiür tells them of Yursalka’s betrayal and dares anyone to challenge him. Yursalka’s family gather around him, and Cnaiür begins killing them. The Utemot do not interfere because it is their way of dealing with traitors. Late Autumn, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk, Momemn Maithanet ’s declaration of the Holy War half a year earlier had resulted in thousands arriving in Momemn. Such is the fervor that many men sold their wives and children to become Men of the Tusk. Some Men of the Tusk commit atrocities or are the victim to them. Calmemunis , Tharschilka , and Kumrezzer sign the Indenture , and Xerius III provisions them. However, there is no clear leader, no organization. This host, which comes to be called the Vulgar Holy War , departs Momemn. Maithanet is angry, and the main contingents of the Holy War are ready to begin their journey to Momemn. Gotian , Grandmaster of the Shrial Knights , intercepts the Vulgar Holy War north of Gielgath with a summons to Maitanet, but Calmemunis refuses the answer, finding it troubling that the Shriah is having doubts on the God’s judgement. The Vulgar Holy War continue south at a slow pace, attracting camp followers. By time it reaches Anserca , the host has become more unruly and raids the countryside for food. General Martemus , who has been shadowing the Vulgar Holy War, attempts to restrain them, but is driven back. Calmemunis blames Xerius for the stop of supplies, but Maithanet ordered the edicts to compel the Vulgar Holy War back to Momemn. He also issues other edicts, rescinding the Shrial Remission, and threatening Shrial Censure to all in the Vulgar Holy War should they continue to march. These events cause the host to stop, and for a time, the Great Names think about returning to Momemn. However, they come across a supply train, apparently heading to Asgilioch . Seeing it as a sign of the God, the Vulgar Holy War continue its march, though some return to Momemn. The host eventually comes upon Asgilioch. The commander of the fortress, Prophilas , offers dinner invitations to the Great Names, and they accept after receiving hostages. Within Asgilioch, they are arrested and presented with the Shriah’s Warrant, but Calmemunis warns Prophilas that the God is on his side, and quotes Inri Sejenus about those who interfere with the God’s will. Prophilas releases them, and the Vulgar Holy War crosses the Unaras Mountains into Fanim lands. While Conphas is writing a message, Skeaös comes to him, telling him that the Ainoni have arrived. Conphas is surprised; they were not expected for another day. Since the departure of the Vulgar Holy War, ten thousand Thunyeri and forty thousand Tydonni have arrived, but the respective leaders of the contingents, King Rauschang and Gothyelk , refused to sign the Indenture . Conphas hands his message to his dispatch, an order for Martemus to resume his patrols south of Momemn. Conphas had installed himself at the lowest level of the Andiamine Heights , and he and Skeaös make the climb up to where his uncle is meeting the Ainoni. Conphas notes that Skeaös shows no sign of strain during the long climb. Skeaös briefs him on their way to the Privy Council, and says that Xerius wanted to exclude Conphas until Eleäzaras requested his presence. Conphas makes Skeaös tell him how critical he is to his uncle’s plans and demands to know why he had lied. Skeaös says that he fears for his soul. Conphas wonders if Skeaös is conspiring with his grandmother to sow dissension between Conphas and Xerius to save the Holy War. Conphas tells Skeaös that the restoration the Nansur Empire for his soul is a bargain. In the Privy Chamber, Xerius dismisses everyone but Cememketri , Skeaös and Conphas. He asks Conphas how he means to snare Eleäzaras. Conphas knows his uncle is afraid because no one knows why the Scarlet Spires have joined the Holy War. Conphas says that they know too little to snare him and it is best to bargain in good faith, and Xerius says that is his thought as well. Eleäzaras and Chepheramunni are announced into the room. Xerius asks why have the Scarlet Spires joined the Holy War, and Eleäzaras says it’s because they were purchased. Conphas thinks this is a lie because even the Thousand Temples could not afford such a price. Eleäzaras says that Chepheramunni will sign the Indenture, but several conditions must be met first. Xerius protests, and Eleäzaras interrupts him, saying he heard his arguments. He asks why had they provisioned the Vulgar Holy War. Xerius says to end their depredations, and Eleäzaras says that is unlikely and that they wanted the Vulgar Holy War destroyed to gain control of the Holy War. He says that if the Nansur should betray them, nothing would save them for the Scarlet Spire’s wrath. Xerius turns to Skeaös and Cememketri warns that Eleäzaras is far from High Ainon to make threats. Eleäzaras ignores him, turning to address Conphas. He praises his unprecedented victory over the Scylvendi . Conphas smiles, but tells him that Cememketri is right; by joining the Holy War, the Scarlet Spires will be surrounded by fanatics. They’ll need every friend they can get. Eleäzaras says they need no one. During their negotiation, Conphas becomes convinced that the reason the Scarlet Spires joined the Holy War is because they have been in a secret war with the Cishaurim . Eleäzaras demanded that in exchange for Chepheramunni signing the Indenture, the Nansur must surrender all their intelligence of the Cishaurim to the Scarlet Spires. Conphas thinks that Maithanet had to know of the Scarlet Spires’ war, and wonders what game he is playing. Conphas receives news that the Vulgar Holy War had been annihilated on the Plains of Mengedda . Two couriers came to Momemn, one delivering the heads of Calmemunis, Tharschilka, and Kumrezzer, and another delivering Conphas a secret message from Skauras : We cannot count the carcasses of your idolatrous kin, so many have been felled by the fury of our righteous hand. Praised be the Solitary God. Know that House Ikurei has been heard. Conphas is awed by what he and his uncle had accomplished, and that only Gods could do such an act.

Book I: Chapter I

Summary

Midwinter, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Carythusal Drusas Achamian , a Mandate sorcerer and spy meets with Geshrunni , a captain of the Scarlet Spires ’ warrior-slaves, the Javreh in a tavern in the Ainoni city of Carythusal . Geshrunni reveals that he knows Achamian is a sorcerer. Achamian, thinking that he’s about to be exposed prepares to unleash his sorcery , but Geshrunni produces a Chorae , a small anti-magic sphere. Achamian realizes that Geshrunni is on his own at the tavern and admits to being a spy for the School of Mandate and asks Geshrunni what he wants, to which the Captain replies that he wants “Truth.” In the end, Geshrunni releases Achamian and agrees to spy for him on the Scarlet Spires. Geshrunni reveals to Achamian that ten years previously, the Cishaurim , the Sorcerer-Priests of the Fanim , assassinated the Grandmaster of the Scarlet Spires, Sasheoka . The meeting ends and while Geshrunni is walking home he realizes that he’s being followed and tries to ambush his follower. He throws a Chorae at the man thinking that he’s a Scarlet Spires sorcerer, but the man catches the Chorae and is not affected by it. Geshrunni is struck and falls down hard. He watches the man’s face loosen, then flex. Back at his room, Achamian is having a Seswatha’s Dream , he is witnessing events from 2,000 years prior. Seswatha fought the No-God during the Apocalypse where he witnessed the death of Anasûrimbor Celmomas II , High King of Kûniüri . With his dying wrods, Celmomas prophesied the return an Anasûrimbor “at the end of the world.” Achamian awakens weeping. Geshrunni, having been tortured by the skin-spy and confessed all he knows, now seems to be missing his face and gets thrown him in a river to drown. The next morning, Achamian uses the Cants of Calling to communicate with Atyersus , the citadel of the Mandate. He’s ordered to return home due to a matter involving the Thousand Temples .

Point of view

- Drusas Achamian
- Geshrunni

Appearing

- Skin-spy
- Seswatha
- Anasûrimbor Celmomas II
- Sranc
- Chiki

Mentioned

- Sasheoka
- No-God
- Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti

Appearing

- High Ainon
- Carythusal
- Holy Leper
- Worm
- Mouth of the Worm
- River Sayut

Mentioned

- Temple of Exorietta
- Nron
- Kian
- Ce Tydonn
- Conriya
- Ancient North
- Trysë
- Golgotterath
- Kûniüri
- River Tywanrae
- Library of Sauglish
- Atyersus

Book I: Chapter II

Summary

Late Winter, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Atyersus At Atyersus, Achamian is called before the Mandate Quorum, where he’s informed that the new Shriah of the Thousand Temples , Maithanet , has called for a Holy War . The target of the Holy War is not yet known but they speculate that it is either the Schools or the Fanim . Simas , an old teacher of Achamian councils that a Holy War against the Fanim and their sorcerous priests, the Cishaurim , could not succeed. Therefore the target has to be the Schools. Achamian is ordered to go to Sumna and discover Maithanet’s true intent. He claims that he has no more contacts in Sumna but he remembers Esmenet , a whore he used to visit. And there is also someone else. Simas has informed Nautzera , a senior member of the Quorum, that Achamian does have an asset in Sumna: Inrau , a young priest. Inrau was once Achamian’s student, but he defected from the Mandate. Achamian objects but Nautzera reminds him that Inrau should have been eliminated for compromising the Gnosis . Achamian, who helped Inrau escape, is blackmailed into using him as an informant. He reluctantly agrees and leaves for Sumna. At a private meeting between Simas and Nautzera, we are informed that the Mandate’s agents are being eliminated. Nautzera wanted to tell Achamian of that fact but Simas told him it would only ensure that he would refuse to seek out Inrau. They conclude that, since their spies are taken out so effortlessly, there must be a traitor amongst the Mandate.

Point of view

- Drusas Achamian
- Seidru Nautzera

Appearing

- Polchias Simas

Mentioned

- Maithanet
- Paro Inrau
- No-God
- Seswatha
- Mekeritrig
- Nersei Proyas
- Esmenet
- Parthelsus

Appearing

- Atyersus
- Nron

Mentioned

- Golgotterath
- Sumna
- High Ainon
- Kian
- River Tywanrae
- Akksersia
- Shimeh
- Dagliash
- Ancient North
- Library of Sauglish
- Trysë
- Myclai
- Kelmeöl
- Ce Tydonn

Book I: Chapter III

Summary

Early Spring, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , En Route to Sumna On a boat sailing across the Meneanor Sea to Sumna, Achamian awakens from a Seswatha Dream . He dreamed of the dragon Skafra . On the deck, Nroni sailors pray to the God of dice, Momas , Aspect of storm and sea. The boat reaches the harbour of Sumna, and from its railing Achamian muses about the Hagerna , which forms the administrative centre of the Thousand Temples ; and the Junriüma , the holy shrine where the Tusk rests. He remembers his former student Inrau and the excessive enthusiasm with which he spoke of the Hagerna. He realizes that Maithanet should be feared because he carries a “plague whose primary symptom is certainty.” The captain of the ship joins him at the railing and warns him that Sorcerers are not welcome in Sumna, the holiest city of Inrithism . The Inrithi view sorcerers as heretics and sinners. Achamian remembers himself as a child and the first time he “experienced” seeing the onta , the very fabric of existence which only the Few could see. He thinks about the Mandate and how its hated by the other Schools for its possession of the Gnosis , the sorcery of the Nonmen of the Ancient North . He walks through the city and thinks about the Tusk. The Tusk is the most ancient human text in Eärwa , and the premier Holy artifact of Inrithism. It had always been installed in Sumna, making it the Holiest city in Inrithi tradition. He stumbles onto a crowd and discovers that Maithanet has called the faithful to reveal the object of the Holy War . He realizes that the Mandate Quorum must have known this and purposefully hid it from him to manipulate him into going to Sumna. In bed with a prostitute named Esmenet , Achamian experiences the Fevers again; a disease that possessed him six years ago and almost killed him. Esmenet bitterly says that her daughter died that same year. He confides in her his plans to turn Inrau and says that she must find him the following day. Esmenet says the two of them, harlot and sorcerer, make a sad couple. Achamian finds Inrau in a tavern the next morning and greets him. Inrau is startled and notices the Shrial Knights nearby. He thinks it’s good to see Achamian and remembers that he regretted leaving the Mandate for some time. Achamian tells Inrau that he’s been sent to spy on Maithanet. Inrau reminds Achamian that he promised to leave him alone and Achamian tearfully says that the world has a habit of breaking the back of his promises. The two argue for a while until they are interrupted by a Shrial Knight called Sarcellus . Pretending to be Inrau’s drunk uncle, Achamian provokes Sarcellus and then falls to the ground when the latter slaps him. The tavern erupts and Sarcellus leaves them. Later, Achamian is standing in the central square of the Hagerna among a great crowd, he’s waiting for Maithanet to declare the target of the Holy War. Maithanet appears and denounces Fanimry as an affront to the God , and the Kianene followers of a False Prophet and an obscene race. Achamian is moved to delirious wonder by the man’s voice and his Fever strikes him again. Maithanet continues on to declare the object of the Holy Way is to free the Holy city of Shimeh , the birth place of the Latter Prophet , from the hands of the Kianene and their Cishaurim priests. Achamian wonders why Maithanet would declare a war that could not be won. He becomes delirious and the crowd lifts him thinking he’s having a religious experience. He’s recognized by another former student of his, Prince Nersei Proyas of Conriya . Before the two can speak Maithanet comes before Achamian and tells him that his kind are not welcome there. Achamian flees realizing that Maithanet is one of the Few. Proyas is outraged at seeing Achamian in the Holy city even though he once loved him. He is led to the Tusk by Incheiri Gotian , the Grandmaster of the Shrial Knights. He prays before Maithanet joins him and asks who it had been that dared to pollute his presence, referring to Achamian.

Point of view

- Drusas Achamian
- Paro Inrau
- Nersei Proyas

Appearing

- Captain
- Esmenet
- Cutias Sarcellus
- Maithanet
- Incheiri Gotian

Mentioned

- Skafra
- Momas
- Gaeterius
- Seidru Nautzera
- Mimara
- Seswatha
- Ikurei Xerius III
- Geshrunni
- Inri Sejenus
- Fane
- Gierra
- Nersei Eukernas II

Book I: Chapter IV

Summary

Mid-Spring, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Sumna Sumna and the rest of the Three Seas are in the grips of the Holy War , and the propaganda by the Shrial apparati. Everywhere men, nobles and caste -menials, are preparing to go to war. “ Maithanet had called, and the entire Three Seas had answered. The back of the heathen would be broken. Holy Shimeh would be cleansed.” Meanwhile, Esmenet has some bitter memories regarding her daughter . She thinks about her love for Achamian (and Achamian’s love for her), and the impossibility of stopping to take custom while he’s with her; she needs to keep her customers interested, because Akka eventually always leaves. They are falling into their old habits, when there’s a knock on the door. It’s Inrau , who has a bit of news for Akka: Maithanet has asked the Scarlet Spires to join the Holy War. Akka is quick to explain that the presence of a School is needed to get the army to Shimeh. A sorcerous counter for the Cishaurim is a necessity. Furthermore, it is to be expected that the Emperor will try to subvert the Holy War to his own needs; by employing the Scarlet Spires they can bypass a dependency on the Imperial Saik , the School indentured to the Emperor of Nansur . Esmenet points out that Maithanet must know something that would make the Scarlet Spires susceptible to the offer. Akka realizes that Maithanet knows about Sasheoka ’s murder by the Cishaurim, which greatly disturbs him. He manages to get Inrau to get closer to Maithanet himself and to spy on him, because he shows himself to be altogether too canny to be what he seems. Inrau thinks to himself about the two different paths of his life: “Through the wash, he could hear the supplicants wail. Arched into shapes of pain and sorrow, their song ran across the wet stone and cupped his thoughts in stretched notes. Hymns of suffering. Two voices: one pitched high and plaintive, asking why must we suffer, always why; the other low, filled with the brooding grandeur of the Thousand Temples and bearing the gravity of truth — that men were at one with suffering and ruin, that tears were the only holy waters.” Inrau feels indebted to Achamian, because he knows that by allowing him to escape the Mandate , Achamian saved his life. Inrau goes to pray at an altar devoted to Onkis , “the Singer-in-the-Dark, the Aspect who stood at the heart of all men, moving them to forever grasp more than they could hold.” Inrau asks whether Onkis will forgive him for returning to the Mandate, and asks for strength when he hears voices behind him, and the flapping of wings. Looking for the source, he eventually steps out on the balcony. Inrau realizes he is being confronted by the Consult ; Lord Sarcellus and Mujonish , another Shrial Knight Inrau knows are also there. Sarcellus reveals that Inrau was spying for Achamian. Inrau is horrified that Consult is not only real, but much more up to speed than Akka knows, or even fears. Inrau plays for time, in hopes of unleashing some sorcery . When he does, Mujonish grabs him by the hair, but “blasphemy tumbled from his lips.” Inrau turns to Mujonish and punches two fingers through his chain-mail and breastbone to seize Mujonish’s heart. Inrau utters more “impossible words” , and the blood that is strewn about bursts into incandescent flame. Inrau striks out towards the Synthese , which ducks with a shriek. “Blinding beads of blood cracked bare stone.” As he turns towards Sarcellus, Mujonish’s corpse distracts him: “The Shrial Knight had stumbled to his knees, wiping his bloody hands on his surcoat. Then, as though spilling from a bladder, his face simply fell apart, dropping outward, unclutching … No mark. Not the faintest whisper of sorcery. But how?” Sarcellus pummels the distracted Inrau, and uses a Chorae to subdue him. The Synthese orders Inrau to relent, but Inrau refuses. He uses further sorcery, but the Synthese is far too powerful. Oh, Akka! It’s worse than you dared imagine. Inrau manages to lunge towards the balcony, not to kill the Synthese perched on the railing, but himself.

Book I: Chapter V

Summary

Early Summer, 4110 Year-of-the-Tusk , Momemn Emperor Ikurei Xerius III , is preparing for a major audience in the Imperial Audience Hall. He’s discussing the course to take with Skeaös , an old slave and Xerius’ Prime Counsel. Xerius hints that his nephew, Conphas , is on a dangerous and important mission. Skeaös tries to sooth the Emperor’s nerves. Xerius notices something strange about Skeaös, even though he’s not sure what it is. The entourage he is about to receive are the lords from Conriya , headed by Nersei Calmemunis . The Men of the Tusk who had, until then, been showing up outside the walls of Momemn were rabble, but not Calmemunis. The great names will be the “keel and the rudder” of the Holy War , and Xerius intends to be the pilot. Calmemunis, who can’t see Xerius up in the shadows of the dais, immediately sets Xerius nerves on edge by asking about Conphas’ war; it turns out Conphas is on a military campaign against the Scylvendi , but Xerius downplays it as a punitive expedition. Calmemunis isn’t convinced. Xerius goes on to nettle Calmemunis about Proyas , who apparently had him whipped for impiety before a battle, and then manages to offend Calmemunis and his officers further by asking them to sign the Indenture, a charter stipulating that all the conquests the Holy War makes in Kian will be returned to the Nansur Empire . The Conriyan lords refuse, and accuse the emperor of playing games “with what is holy” . Xerius compounds the Conriyans anger by threatening to starve them if they don’t sign the Indenture, and things start to get out of hand when Xerius is suddenly shat upon by a sparrow, and completely loses his temper. He orders his guards to shoot all the sparrows down from the upper galleries. As the arrows skitter down, all is in chaos. Afterwards, Xerius descends the dais and picks up a skewered sparrow, thinking “A mere bird would never dare offend an emperor.” He calmly hands the sparrow to Calmemunis, saying “take this as a token of my esteem.” Xerius’ augur manages to convince him that being shat upon is a good omen; as a balance to great prosperity/good fortune “some token blight must always accompany triumph.” Xerius comes upon his mother, Ikurei Istriya , “who moved with the willowy grace of a fifteen-year-old virgin, despite her sixty whorish years.” Xerius immediately notices something odd in her manner as well. Istriya immediately upbraids him for treating the Conriyans so, as she fears they will sign the Indenture with Xerius’ blood. But Xerius is unmoved. He will feed the Conriyans enough to keep them alive, but not enough to march. Through their wrangling, Istriya realizes that the Indenture is a pretext, something to protect Xerius from Shrial censure when he wants to retake the conquests made by the Men of the Tusk. That’s why Conphas is on a campaign against the Scylvendi: their border must be subdued in order to free the necessary manpower. Istriya loses it, when Xerius derides her fears, and finally has to be dragged away by her eunuch. And Xerius is informed that the Fanim have sent an emissary … A Cishaurim . Xerius meets the Cishaurim with three sorcerers from the Imperial Saik , headed by Cememketri , and a dozen Chorae -bowmen in the galleries. Cememketri informs Xerius that three sorcerers are enough to protect the emperor. The Cishaurim take out their own eyes, and they wear Shigeki salt asps around their necks. These serve as their eyes. Interestingly enough, Cememketri can’t see the Mark of Sorcery on the Cishaurim. The Cishaurim identifies himself as Mallahet , adopted son of Kisma , of the tribe Indara-Kishauri . This horrifies Cememketri, who urges Xerius to flee as they are all in great danger. Apparently, “Mallahet is second only to Seokti in the Cishaurim. And only then because their Prophetic Law bars non-Kianene from the position of Heresiarch. Even the Cishaurim are fearful of his power!” Oddly enough, Mallahet’s arms are scarred like a Scylvendi. Xerius refuses to budge, however. Mallahet conjures an ephemeral face over his own; the face is that of Skauras , the Sapatishah-Governor of Shigek, for over four decades the enemy of the Empires Southern Columns. In this way, Xerius can talk to Skauras directly. Xerius proposes that fanatics are hard to deal with, so he seeks common ground with Skauras, especially when he learns that Maithanet doesn’t need the Imperial Saik as he’s already got the Scarlet Spires . Xerius intends to teach the Men of the Tusk to respect the Fanim, so he can gain control of it again.

Book I: Prologue

Summary

2147 Year-of-the-Tusk , the Mountains of Demua In Ishuäl , the secret refuge of the Kûniüric High Kings, Anasûrimbor Ganrelka II ’s household is wiped out by a plague save for Ganrelka’s bastard son and a Bardic Priest. The Priest molests the boy muttering “There are no crimes when no one is left alive.” The Priest is then killed by the boy. Later, a group of Dûnyain refugees seems to stumbles upon Ishuäl and scales its walls. One of them finds the boy and asks why he fears them, to which the boy replies, “So long as men live, there are crimes!” and the man says “No, child, only so long as men are deceived.” The Dûnyain and boy find shelter in Ishuäl against the Apocalypse , and the world forgets them for two thousand years. ———«»———«»———«»——— Late Autumn, 4109 Year-of-the-Tusk, the Mountains of Demua 1962 years later, the Dûnyain are sent dreams by someone demanding that they send to him his son. They meet in the Labyrinth called the Thousand Thousand Halls where they decide that this “desecration” cannot be tolerated. Anasûrimbor Kellhus , the son in question, sets out of Ishuäl to find his father, while the “dreamers” descend to the Thousand Thousand Halls where they will die. Kellhus wanders around until he is too weak to continue and succumbs. A trapper named Leweth finds him buried in snow and saves him. Kellhus possesses the man’s thoughts using his much superior intellect and the fact that he can read his thoughts through his face. Leweth tells Kellhus about the No-God , the Consult , Sorcery , the Gods , and the Apocalypse , all of which Kellhus dismisses as superstition. Eventually, Leweth and Kellhus are attacked by a band of Sranc and are forced to leave their cabin. Leweth is wounded and tells Kellhus about the Nonman Ruins to the west. Kellhus leaves him for the Sranc. Kellhus moves on and encounters a deranged Nonman Qûya . The two fight and Kellhus is stunned by the Nonman’s use of sorcery. He flees while the Nonman’s booming voice says “I WILL REMEMBER.”

Point of view

- Anasûrimbor Kellhus
- Leweth

Appearing

- Bardic Priest
- Anasûrimbor boy (Bastard of Ganrelka)
- Cet’ingira
- Sranc

Mentioned

- No-God
- Husyelt
- Inri Sejenus
- Anasûrimbor Moënghus
- Anasûrimbor Celmomas II

Appearing

- Kûniüri
- Demua Mountains
- Ishuäl
- Thousand Thousand Halls
- Sobel

Mentioned

- Fields of Eleneöt
- Golgotterath
- Shimeh
- Three Seas
- Atrithau
- Sakarpus
- Galeoth
- Eämnor
- Trysë

Notes

- This chapter also includes two sections using an omniscient point of view.

Book of Circles and Spirals
The Book of Circles and Spirals is the magnum opus of Sorainas , providing an entertaining blend of philosophical commentary and religious aphorism.

Excerpts

“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.”

Book of Divine Acts
The Book of Divine Acts is the magnum opus of Memgowa , the famed Zeümi sage and philosopher. Though not as commonly read or copied as his Celestial Aphorisms , most scholars consider it a vastly superior work.

Excerpts

“If all human events possess purpose, then all human deeds possess purpose. And yet when men vie with men, the purpose of no man comes to fruition: the result always falls somewhere in between. The purpose of deeds, then, cannot derive from the purposes of men, because all men vie with all men. This means the deeds of men must be willed by something other than men. From this it follows that we are all slaves. Who then is our Master?” “The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods . The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worshp Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, who is infinite.” “In life, your soul is but the extension of your body, which reaches inwards until it finds its centre in spirit. In death, your body is but the extension of your soul, which reaches outward until it finds its circumference in flesh. In both instances, all things appear the same. Thus are the dead and the living confused.”

Borswelka I
King of the Meöri whose reign started in 1021.

Borswelka II
King of the Meöri, grandson to Borswelka I.

Borswelka IV
King of the Meöri, father of Engûs.

Boy
The Boy is an initiate of the Dûnyain and grandson of Anasûrimbor Kellhus .

Appearance

The Boy is slender and tall beyond his years. His head is shaven and three fingers have been cut from his right hand, making a crab's claw of his thumb and forefinger. His age is not known, though he is know to be a babe when the attack on Ishuäl took place. This would would place make him somewhere between 9-16 years of age, as the attack on Ishuäl lasted for over four years and ended years ago, as of 4132.

The Boy

Lived: presumably after 4111 -?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Gender: Male
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Koringhus (father) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (grandfather) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (great-grandfather) Maithanet (great-uncle)
Books: The Great Ordeal

The Boy

Lived: presumably after 4111 -?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Dûnyain ( Norsirai )
Gender: Male
Relatives: Anasûrimbor Koringhus (father) Anasûrimbor Kellhus (grandfather) Anasûrimbor Moënghus (great-grandfather) Maithanet (great-uncle)
Books: The Great Ordeal

Boy"
""The Boy"" Unnamed son of Anasûrimbor Koringhus.

bo
-an exclamation used to startle or frighten.

bo tree
-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.

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

boa constrictor
-a large and powerful serpent of tropical america, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. see illustration in appendix.

boanerges
-any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.

boar
-the uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

board
-a piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness,
-- used for building, etc.
-a table to put food upon.
-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.
-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.
-a square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
-paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
-the stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
-the border or side of anything.
-the side of a ship.
-the stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
-to cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
-to go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
-to enter, as a railway car.
-to furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
-to place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
-to obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
-to approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

boardable
-that can be boarded, as a ship.

boarded
-of board

boarder
-one who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
-one who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.

boarding
-of board
-the act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
-the act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
-the act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.

boarfish
-a mediterranean fish (capros aper), of the family caproidae;
-- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
-an australian percoid fish (histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

boarish
-swinish; brutal; cruel.

boas
-of boa

boast
-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.
-to speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
-to display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self
-commendation; to extol.
-to display vaingloriously.
-to possess or have; as, to boast a name.
-to dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
-to shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
-act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
-the cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation,
-- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

boastance
-boasting.

boasted
-of boast

boaster
-one who boasts; a braggart.
-a stone mason's broad
-faced chisel.

boastful
-given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self
-praising.

boasting
-of boast
-the act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

boastingly
-boastfully; with boasting.

boastive
-presumptuous.

boastless
-without boasting or ostentation.

boat
-a small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
-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.
-a vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
-to transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
-to place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
-to go or row in a boat.

boat bug
-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
-a marine gastropod of the genus crepidula. the species are numerous. it is so named from its form and interior deck.
-a marine univalve shell of the genus cymba.

boat
-shaped
-see cymbiform.

boat
-tail
-a large grackle or blackbird (quiscalus major), found in the southern united states.

boatable
-such as can be transported in a boat.
-navigable for boats, or small river craft.

boatage
-conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

boatbill
-a wading bird (cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of south america. its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
-a perching bird of india, of the genus eurylaimus.

boated
-of boat

boatful
-the quantity or amount that fills a boat.

boatfuls
-of boatful

boathouse
-a house for sheltering boats.

boating
-of boat
-the act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
-in persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

boation
-a crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.

boatman
-a man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
-a boat bug. see boat bug.

boatmanship
-the art of managing a boat.

boatmen
-of boatman

boatsman
-a boatman.

boatswain
-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.
-the jager gull.
-the tropic bird.

boatwoman
-a woman who manages a boat.

boatwomen
-of boatwoman

bob
-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.
-a knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
-a small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
-the ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
-a small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
-a short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
-a working beam.
-a knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
-a peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
-the refrain of a song.
-a blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
-a jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
-a shilling.
-to cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
-to strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
-to cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
-to mock or delude; to cheat.
-to cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
-to have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
-to angle with a bob. see bob, n., 2 & 3.

bob wig
-a short wig with bobs or short curls;
-- called also bobtail wig.

bob
-cherry
-a play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

bobac
-the poland marmot (arctomys bobac).

bobance
-a boasting.

bobbed
-of bob

bobber
-one who, or that which, bobs.

bobbery
-a squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.

bobbin
-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.
-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.
-the little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
-a fine cord or narrow braid.
-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.

bobbinet
-a kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.

bobbing
-of bob

bobbinwork
-work woven with bobbins.

bobbish
-hearty; in good spirits.

bobby
-a nickname for a policeman;
-- from sir robert peel, who remodeled the police force. see peeler.

bobfly
-the fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

bobolink
-an american singing bird (dolichonyx oryzivorus). the male is black and white; the female is brown;
-- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and boblincoln.

bobsled
-alt. of bobsleigh

bobsleigh
-a short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.

bobstay
-a rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater;
-- usually in the pl.

bobtail
-an animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
-bobtailed.

bobtailed
-having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

bobwhite
-the common quail of north america (colinus, or ortyx, virginianus);
-- so called from its note.

bocal
-a cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

bocardo
-a form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
-a prison;
-- originally the name of the old north gate in oxford, which was used as a prison.

bocasine
-a sort of fine buckram.

bocca
-the round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.

boce
-a european fish (box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors;
-- called also box, and bogue.

bock beer
-a strong beer, originally made in bavaria.

bockelet
-a kind of long
-winged hawk;
-- called also bockerel, and bockeret.

bockey
-a bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

bocking
-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
-see bookland.
-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.

boddice
-see bodick.

bode
-to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
-to foreshow something; to augur.
-an omen; a foreshadowing.
-a bid; an offer.
-a messenger; a herald.
-a stop; a halting; delay.
-abode.
-bid or bidden.

boded
-of bode

bodeful
-portentous; ominous.

bodement
-an omen; a prognostic.

bodge
-a botch; a patch.
-to botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
-see budge.

bodged
-of bodge

bodian
-a large food fish (diagramma lineatum), native of the east indies.

bodice
-a kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
-a close
-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

bodiced
-wearing a bodice.

bodied
-having a body;
-- usually in composition; as, able
-bodied.
-of body

bodies
-of body

bodiless
-having no body.
-without material form; incorporeal.

bodiliness
-corporeality.

bodily
-having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
-of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.
-real; actual; put in execution.
-corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
-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."

boding
-of bode
-foreshowing; presaging; ominous.
-a prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

bodkin
-a dagger.
-an implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.
-a sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
-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.
-a kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
-see baudekin.

bodle
-a small scotch coin worth about one sixth of an english penny.

bodleian
-of or pertaining to sir thomas bodley, or to the celebrated library at oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

bodock
-the osage orange.

bodrage
-a raid.

body
-the material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
-the trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
-the real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
-a person; a human being;
-- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
-a number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
-a number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
-any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
-amount; quantity; extent.
-that part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
-the bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
-the shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
-a figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
-consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
-to furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

bodyguard
-a guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
-retinue; attendance; following.

bodying
-of body

boeotian
-of or pertaining to boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.
-a native of boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.

boer
-a colonist or farmer in south africa of dutch descent.

boes
-behoves or behooves.

bog
-a quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
-a little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
-to sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

bogberry
-the small cranberry (vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

bogey
-a goblin; a bugbear. see bogy.

boggard
-a bogey.

bogged
-of bog

bogging
-of bog

boggle
-to stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
-to do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
-to play fast and loose; to dissemble.
-to embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

boggled
-of boggle

boggler
-one who boggles.

boggling
-of boggle

bogglish
-doubtful; skittish.

boggy
-consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

bogie
-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.

bogies
-of bogy

bogle
-a goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

bogsucker
-the american woodcock;
-- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

bogtrotter
-one who lives in a boggy country;
-- applied in derision to the lowest class of irish.

bogtrotting
-living among bogs.

bogue
-to fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward;
-- said only of inferior craft.
-the boce;
-- called also bogue bream. see boce.

bogus
-spurious; fictitious; sham;
-- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
-a liquor made of rum and molasses.

bogwood
-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
-a specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

bohea
-bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. see under tea.

bohemia
-a country of central europe.
-fig.: the region or community of social bohemians. see bohemian, n., 3.

bohemian
-of or pertaining to bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. see bohemian, n., 2.
-of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "bohemian" (see bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.
-a native of bohemia.
-the language of the czechs (the ancient inhabitants of bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the slavic family.
-a restless vagabond;
-- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in france) thought to have come from bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.

bohemianism
-the characteristic conduct or methods of a bohemian.

bohun upas
-see upas.

boiar
-see boyar.

boil
-to be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
-to be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
-to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
-to be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
-to be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
-to heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
-to form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
-to subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
-to steep or soak in warm water.
-act or state of boiling.
-a hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

boilary
-see boilery.

boiled
-of boil
-dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

boiler
-one who boils.
-a vessel in which any thing is boiled.
-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.

boilery
-a place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

boiling
-of boil
-heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
-the act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
-exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

boilingly
-with boiling or ebullition.

bois d'arc
-the osage orange (maclura aurantiaca).

bois durci
-a hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.

boist
-a box.

boisterous
-rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
-exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
-noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
-vehement; excessive.

boisterously
-in a boisterous manner.

boisterousness
-the state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

boistous
-rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.

bojanus organ
-a glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

bokadam
-see cerberus.

boke
-to poke; to thrust.

bolar
-of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.

bolas
-a kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord;
-- used by the gauchos of south america, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

bold
-forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
-exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
-in a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
-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.
-standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
-steep; abrupt; prominent.
-to make bold or daring.
-to be or become bold.

bold eagle
-an australian eagle (aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo.

bold
-faced
-somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold
-faced woman.
-having a conspicuous or heavy face.

bolden
-to make bold; to encourage; to embolden.

boldened
-of bolden

boldly
-in a bold manner.

boldness
-the state or quality of being bold.

boldo
-alt. of boldu

boldu
-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
-the trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
-an aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
-a measure. see boll, n., 2.
-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.
-a bolus; a dose.

bolection
-a projecting molding round a panel. same as bilection.

bolero
-a spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

boletic
-pertaining to, or obtained from, the boletus.

boletus
-a genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. a few are edible, and others very poisonous.

boley
-alt. of bolye

bolide
-a kind of bright meteor; a bolis.

bolis
-a meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

bolivian
-of or pertaining to bolivia.
-a native of bolivia.

boll
-the pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
-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.
-to form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

bollandists
-the jesuit editors of the "acta sanctorum", or lives of the saints;
-- named from john bolland, who began the work.

bollard
-an upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

bolled
-of boll

bollen
-see boln, a.
-swollen; puffed out.

bolling
-a tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

bollworm
-the larva of a moth (heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

boln
-to swell; to puff.
-alt. of bollen

bologna
-a city of italy which has given its name to various objects.
-a bologna sausage.

bolognese
-of or pertaining to bologna.
-a native of bologna.

bolognian
-bolognese.

bolometer
-an instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum;
-- called also actinic balance, thermic balance.

bolster
-a long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed;
-- generally laid under the pillows.
-a pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
-anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
-a cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
-a cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
-anything used to prevent chafing.
-a plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
-a transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
-the crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
-the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
-that part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
-the metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
-the rolls forming the ends or sides of the ionic capital.
-a block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
-to support with a bolster or pillow.
-to support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort;
-- often with up.

bolstered
-of bolster
-supported; upheld.
-swelled out.

bolsterer
-a supporter.

bolstering
-of bolster

bolt
-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.
-lightning; a thunderbolt.
-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.
-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.
-an iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
-a compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
-a bundle, as of oziers.
-to shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
-to utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
-to swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
-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.
-to cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
-to fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
-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.
-to strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
-to spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
-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.
-in the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
-a sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
-a sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
-a refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
-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.
-to separate, as if by sifting or bolting;
-- with out.
-to discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
-a sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

bolted
-of bolt
-of bolt

boltel
-see boultel.

bolter
-one who bolts; esp.: (a) a horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) a man who breaks away from his party.
-one who sifts flour or meal.
-an instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
-a kind of fishing line. see boulter.

bolthead
-a long, straight
-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations;
-- called also a matrass or receiver.
-the head of a bolt.

bolting
-of bolt
-of bolt
-a darting away; a starting off or aside.
-a sifting, as of flour or meal.
-a private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the inns of court.

boltonite
-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
-a rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

boltsprit
-see bowsprit.

bolty
-an edible fish of the nile (genus chromis).

bolus
-a rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

boluses
-of bolus

bolye
-same as booly.

bom
-a large american serpent, so called from the sound it makes.

bomb
-a great noise; a hollow sound.
-a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. see shell.
-a bomb ketch.
-to bombard.
-to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

bombace
-cotton; padding.

bombard
-a piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. it was the earliest kind of cannon.
-a bombardment.
-a large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
-padded breeches.
-see bombardo.
-to attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

bombarded
-of bombard

bombardier
-one who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
-a noncommissioned officer in the british artillery.

bombarding
-of bombard

bombardman
-one who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.

bombardment
-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.

bombardo
-alt. of bombardon

bombardon
-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.

bombasine
-same as bombazine.

bombast
-originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
-cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
-fig.: high
-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
-high
-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
-to swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

bombastic
-alt. of bombastical

bombastical
-characterized by bombast; high
-sounding; inflated.

bombastry
-swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

bombax
-a genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus bombax.

bombazet bombazette
-a sort of thin woolen cloth. it is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

bombazine
-a twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.

bombic
-pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

bombilate
-to hum; to buzz.

bombilation
-a humming sound; a booming.

bombinate
-to hum; to boom.

bombination
-a humming or buzzing.

bombolo
-a thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.

bomboloes
-of bombolo

bombproof
-secure against the explosive force of bombs.
-a structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.

bombshell
-a bomb. see bomb, n.

bombycid
-like or pertaining to the genus bombyx, or the family bombycidae.

bombycinous
-silken; made of silk.
-being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.

bombylious
-buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.

bombyx
-a genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. see silkworm.

bon
-good; valid as security for something.

bon silene
-a very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

bon ton
-the height of the fashion; fashionable society.

bon vivant
-a good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

bon
-accord
-good will; good fellowship; agreement.

bona fide
-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 peritura
-perishable goods.

bona roba
-a showy wanton; a courtesan.

bonair
-gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

bonanza
-in mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.

bonapartean
-of or pertaining to napoleon bonaparte or his family.

bonapartism
-the policy of bonaparte or of the bonapartes.

bonapartist
-one attached to the policy or family of bonaparte, or of the bonapartes.

bonassus
-the aurochs or european bison. see aurochs.

bonasus
-alt. of bonassus

bonbon
-sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

bonce
-a boy's game played with large marbles.

bonchretien
-a name given to several kinds of pears. see bartlett.

boncilate
-a substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.

bond
-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.
-the state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
-a binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
-moral or political duty or obligation.
-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.
-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.
-the state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-to dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
-a vassal or serf; a slave.
-in a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

bond servant
-a slave; one who is bound to service without wages.

bond service
-the condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.

bondage
-the state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
-obligation; tie of duty.
-villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

bondager
-a field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.

bondar
-a small quadruped of bengal (paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet;
-- called also musk cat.

bonded
-of bond
-placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.

bonder
-one who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
-a bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
-a freeholder on a small scale.

bondholder
-a person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.

bonding
-of bond

bondmaid
-a female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

bondman
-a man slave, or one bound to service without wages.
-a villain, or tenant in villenage.

bondmen
-of bondman

bondslave
-a person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.

bondsman
-a slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
-a surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

bondsmen
-of bondsman

bondstone
-a stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

bondswoman
-see bondwoman.

bonduc
-see nicker tree.

bondwoman
-a woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

bondwomen
-of bondwoman

bone
-the hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
-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.
-anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
-two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
-dice.
-whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
-fig.: the framework of anything.
-to withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
-to put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
-to fertilize with bone.
-to steal; to take possession of.
-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.

boneache
-pain in the bones.

boneblack
-see bone black, under bone, n.

boned
-of bone
-having (such) bones;
-- used in composition; as, big
-boned; strong
-boned.
-deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.
-manured with bone; as, boned land.

bonedog
-the spiny dogfish.

bonefish
-see ladyfish.

boneless
-without bones.

boneset
-a medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (eupatorium perfoliatum). its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

bonesetter
-one who sets broken or dislocated bones;
-- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.

boneshaw
-sciatica.

bonetta
-see bonito.

bonfire
-a large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.

bongrace
-a projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide
-brimmed hat.

bonhomie
-alt. of bonhommie

bonhommie
-good nature; pleasant and easy manner.

bonibell
-see bonnibel.

boniface
-an innkeeper.

boniform
-sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.

bonify
-to convert into, or make, good.

boniness
-the condition or quality of being bony.

boning
-of bone
-the clearing of bones from fish or meat.
-the manuring of land with bones.
-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.

bonitary
-beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

bonito
-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.
-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.
-the medregal (seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the united states and the west indies.
-the cobia or crab eater (elacate canada), an edible fish of the middle and southern united states.

bonitoes
-of bonito

bonmot
-a witty repartee; a jest.

bonne
-a female servant charged with the care of a young child.

bonne bouche
-a delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.

bonnes bouches
-of bonne bouche

bonnet
-a headdress for men and boys; a cap.
-a soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in scotland.
-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.
-anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use
-a small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
-a metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
-a frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
-a roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
-in pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
-an additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.
-the second stomach of a ruminating animal.
-an accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.
-to take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.

bonneted
-wearing a bonnet.
-protected by a bonnet. see bonnet, 4 (a).

bonnetless
-without a bonnet.

bonnibel
-a handsome girl.

bonnie
-see bonny, a.

bonnilass
-a "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl.

bonnily
-gayly; handsomely.

bonniness
-the quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.

bonny
-handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
-gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
-a round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

bonnyclabber
-coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk;
-- sometimes called simply clabber.

bons vivants
-of bon vivant

bonsmots
-of bonmot

bonspiel
-a cur/ing match between clubs.

bontebok
-the pied antelope of south africa (alcelaphus pygarga). its face and rump are white. called also nunni.

bonus
-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.
-an extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
-money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

bonuses
-of bonus

bony
-consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
-having large or prominent bones.

bonze
-a buddhist or fohist priest, monk, or nun.

boobies
-of booby

booby
-a dunce; a stupid fellow.
-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.
-a species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
-having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

boobyish
-stupid; dull.

boodh
-same as buddha.

boodhism
-same as buddhism.

boodhist
-same as buddhist.

boodle
-the whole collection or lot; caboodle.
-money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.

boohoe
-to bawl; to cry loudly.

boohoo
-the sailfish;
-- called also woohoo.

boohooed
-of boohoe

boohooing
-of boohoe

book
-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.
-a composition, written or printed; a treatise.
-a part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "paradise lost."
-a volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
-six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
-to enter, write, or register in a book or list.
-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.
-to mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

book muslin
-a kind of muslin used for the covers of books.
-a kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.

book
-learned
-versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.

bookbinder
-one whose occupation is to bind books.

bookbindery
-a bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

bookbinding
-the art, process, or business of binding books.

bookcase
-a case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

bookcraft
-authorship; literary skill.

booked
-of book
-registered.
-on the way; destined.

booker
-one who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

bookful
-as much as will fill a book; a book full.
-filled with book learning.

bookholder
-a prompter at a theater.
-a support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

booking
-of book

booking 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
-an office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
-an office where passage tickets are sold.

bookish
-given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
-characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

bookkeeper
-one who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

bookkeeping
-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.

bookland
-alt. of bockland

bookless
-without books; unlearned.

booklet
-a little book.

bookmaker
-one who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
-a betting man who "makes a book." see to make a book, under book, n.

bookman
-a studious man; a scholar.

bookmark
-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
-a schoolfellow; an associate in study.

bookmen
-of bookman

bookmonger
-a dealer in books.

bookplate
-a label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

bookseller
-one who sells books.

bookselling
-the employment of selling books.

bookshelf
-a shelf to hold books.

bookshelves
-of bookshelf

bookshop
-a bookseller's shop.

bookstall
-a stall or stand where books are sold.

bookstand
-a place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.
-a stand to hold books for reading or reference.

bookstore
-a store where books are kept for sale;
-- called in england a bookseller's shop.

bookwork
-work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.
-study; application to books.

bookworm
-any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. many species are known.
-a student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.

booky
-bookish.

boolies
-of booly

booly
-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.

boom
-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.
-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.
-a pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.
-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.
-a line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.
-to extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
-to cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
-to make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
-to rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
-to have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
-a hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
-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.
-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.

boomdas
-a small african hyracoid mammal (dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

boomed
-of boom

boomer
-one who, or that which, booms.
-a north american rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. see sewellel.
-a large male kangaroo.
-one who works up a "boom".

boomerang
-a very singular missile weapon used by the natives of australia and in some parts of india. it is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. when thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.

booming
-of boom
-rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
-advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.
-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.

boomkin
-same as bumkin.

boomorah
-a small west african chevrotain (hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

boomslange
-a large south african tree snake (bucephalus capensis). although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

boon
-a prayer or petition.
-that which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
-good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
-kind; bountiful; benign.
-gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
-the woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

boor
-a husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
-a dutch, german, or russian peasant; esp. a dutch colonist in south africa, guiana, etc.: a boer.
-a rude ill
-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

boorish
-like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.

boort
-see bort.

boose
-a stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.
-to drink excessively. see booze.

booser
-a toper; a guzzler. see boozer.

boost
-to lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.
-a push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.

boosted
-of boost

boosting
-of boost

boot
-remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
-that which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
-profit; gain; advantage; use.
-to profit; to advantage; to avail;
-- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
-to enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
-a covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
-an instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in scotland.
-a place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
-a place for baggage at either end of an old
-fashioned stagecoach.
-an apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
-the metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
-to put boots on, esp. for riding.
-to punish by kicking with a booted foot.
-to boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
-booty; spoil.

bootblack
-one who blacks boots.

booted
-of boot
-of boot
-wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.
-having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering;
-- said of the tarsus of some birds.

bootee
-a half boot or short boot.

bootes
-a northern constellation, containing the bright star arcturus.

booth
-a house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
-a covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

boothale
-to forage for booty; to plunder.

boothose
-stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
-hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.

boothy
-see bothy.
-a wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.

bootikin
-a little boot, legging, or gaiter.
-a covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.

booting
-of boot
-of boot
-advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
-a kind of torture. see boot, n., 2.
-a kicking, as with a booted foot.

bootjack
-a device for pulling off boots.

bootless
-unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

bootlick
-a toady.

bootmaker
-one who makes boots.

boots
-a servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

boottopping
-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.
-sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

boottree
-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.

booty
-that which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

booze
-to drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
-a carouse; a drinking.

boozed
-of booze

boozer
-one who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

boozing
-of booze

boozy
-a little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

bopeep
-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.

borable
-capable of being bored.

borachte
-a large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. hence: a drunkard.

boracic
-pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

boracite
-a mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

boracous
-relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

borage
-a mucilaginous plant of the genus borago (b. officinalis), which is used, esp. in france, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

boragewort
-plant of the borage family.

boraginaceous
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

boragineous
-relating to the borage tribe; boraginaceous.

boramez
-see barometz.

borate
-a salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

borax
-a white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. it occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in tuscany. it was originally obtained from a lake in thibet, and was sent to europe under the name of tincal. borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, na2b4o7.10h2o.

borborygm
-a rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.

bord
-a board; a table.
-the face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
-see bourd.

bord service
-service due from a bordar; bordage.

bordage
-the base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

bordar
-a villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

bordeaux
-pertaining to bordeaux in the south of france.
-a claret wine from bordeaux.

bordel
-alt. of bordello

bordelais
-of or pertaining to bordeaux, in france, or to the district around bordeaux.

bordeller
-a keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.

bordello
-a brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.

border
-the outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
-a boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
-a strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
-a narrow flower bed.
-to touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent;
-- with on or upon as, connecticut borders on massachusetts.
-to approach; to come near to; to verge.
-to make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
-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.
-to confine within bounds; to limit.

bordered
-of border

borderer
-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.

bordering
-of border

bordland
-either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.

bordlode
-the service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.

bordman
-a bordar; a tenant in bordage.

bordrag
-alt. of bordraging

bordraging
-an incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.

bordure
-a border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. it is usually plain, but may be charged.

bore
-of bear
-to perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
-to form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
-to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
-to weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
-to befool; to trick.
-to make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
-to be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
-to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
-to shoot out the nose or toss it in the air;
-- said of a horse.
-a hole made by boring; a perforation.
-the internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
-the size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
-a tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
-caliber; importance.
-a person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
-a tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the amazon, in south america, the hoogly and indus, in india, and the tsien
-tang, in china.
-less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the bay of fundy and in the british channel.
-imp. of 1st & 2d bear.

boreal
-northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

boreas
-the north wind;
-- usually a personification.

borecole
-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.

bored
-of bore

boredom
-the state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
-the realm of bores; bores, collectively.

boree
-same as bourree.

borel
-see borrel.

borele
-the smaller two
-horned rhinoceros of south africa (atelodus bicornis).

borer
-one that bores; an instrument for boring.
-a marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. see teredo.
-any bivalve mollusk (saxicava, lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
-one of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. see apple borer, under apple.
-the hagfish (myxine).

boric
-of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

boride
-a binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical;
-- formerly called boruret.

boring
-of bore
-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.
-a hole made by boring.
-the chips or fragments made by boring.

born
-of bear
-brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.
-having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.

borne
-of bear
-carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. see bear, v. t.

borneol
-a rare variety of camphor, c10h17.oh, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. it is said to occur in the camphor tree of borneo and sumatra (dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in european or american commerce, being in great request by the chinese. called also borneo camphor, malay camphor, and camphol.

bornite
-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
-a double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical;
-- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.

boroglyceride
-a compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.

boron
-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.

borosilicate
-a double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

borough
-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.
-the collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
-an association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
-the pledge or surety thus given.

borough
-english
-a custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.

boroughhead
-see headborough.

boroughholder
-a headborough; a borsholder.

boroughmaster
-the mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

boroughmonger
-one who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

boroughmongering
-alt. of boroughmongery

boroughmongery
-the practices of a boroughmonger.

borracho
-see borachio.

borrage
-alt. of borraginaceous

borraginaceous
-see borage, n., etc.

borrel
-coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.
-a kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.
-ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

borrow
-to receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind;
-- the opposite of lend.
-to take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower;
-- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
-to copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
-to feign or counterfeit.
-to receive; to take; to derive.
-something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
-the act of borrowing.

borrowed
-of borrow

borrower
-one who borrows.

borrowing
-of borrow

borsholder
-the head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d borough); the headborough; a parish constable.

borsten
-of breste

bort
-imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

boruret
-a boride.

borwe
-pledge; borrow.

bos
-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
-a drink, used in the east. see boza.

boscage
-a growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
-food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

bosh
-figure; outline; show.
-empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.
-one of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
-the lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
-in forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

boshbok
-a kind of antelope. see bush buck.

boshes
-of bosh

boshvark
-the bush hog. see under bush, a thicket.

bosjesman
-see bushman.

bosk
-a thicket; a small wood.

boskage
-same as boscage.

bosket
-alt. of bosquet

boskiness
-boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

bosky
-woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
-caused by boscage.

bosom
-the breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
-the breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.
-embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.
-any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.
-the part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.
-inclination; desire.
-a depression round the eye of a millstone.
-of or pertaining to the bosom.
-intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.
-to inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
-to conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

bosomed
-of bosom
-having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

bosoming
-of bosom

bosomy
-characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

boson
-see boatswain.

bosporian
-of or pertaining to the thracian or the cimmerian bosporus.

bosporus
-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.

bosquet
-a grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.
-see bosket.

boss
-any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.
-a protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. see umbilicus.
-a projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.
-a wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
-the enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.
-a swage or die used for shaping metals.
-a head or reservoir of water.
-to ornament with bosses; to stud.
-a master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

bossage
-a stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.
-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.

bossed
-of boss
-embossed; also, bossy.

bosses
-of boss

bosset
-a rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

bossing
-of boss

bossism
-the rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.

bossy
-ornamented with bosses; studded.
-a cow or calf;
-- familiarly so called.

boston
-a game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty
-two cards each;
-- said to be so called from boston, massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the french army in america during the revolutionary war.

boswellian
-relating to, or characteristic of, boswell, the biographer of dr. johnson.

boswellism
-the style of boswell.

bot
-see bots.

botanic
-alt. of botanical

botanical
-of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.

botanies
-of botany

botanist
-one skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

botanize
-to seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
-to explore for botanical purposes.

botanized
-of botanize

botanizer
-one who botanizes.

botanizing
-of botanize

botanologer
-a botanist.

botanology
-the science of botany.

botanomancy
-an ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

botany
-the science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. see plant.
-a book which treats of the science of botany.

botany bay
-a harbor on the east coast of australia, and an english convict settlement there;
-- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by cook in 1770.

botargo
-a sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

botch
-a swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
-a patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
-work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
-to mark with, or as with, botches.
-to repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment;
-- sometimes with up.
-to put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

botched
-of botch

botchedly
-in a clumsy manner.

botcher
-one who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
-a clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
-a young salmon; a grilse.

botcherly
-bungling; awkward.

botchery
-a botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

botches
-of botch

botching
-of botch

botchy
-marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.

bote
-compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
-payment of any kind.
-a privilege or allowance of necessaries.

boteless
-unavailing; in vain. see bootless.

botfly
-a dipterous insect of the family (estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. a common species is one of the botflies of the horse (gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. in tropical america one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. see gadfly.

both
-the one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
-as well; not only; equally.

both
-hands
-a factotum.

bother
-to annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. see pother.
-to feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
-one who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

botheration
-the act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

bothered
-of bother

botherer
-one who bothers.

bothering
-of bother

bothersome
-vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

bothie
-same as bothy.

bothnian
-alt. of bothnic

bothnic
-of or pertaining to bothnia, a country of northern europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the baltic sea.

bothrenchyma
-dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

bothy
-alt. of boothy

botocudos
-a brazilian tribe of indians, noted for their use of poisons;
-- also called aymbores.

botryogen
-a hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. it often occurs in botryoidal form.

botryoid
-alt. of botryoidal

botryoidal
-having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

botryolite
-a variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

botryose
-having the form of a cluster of grapes.
-of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

bots
-the larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.

bottine
-a small boot; a lady's boot.
-an appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.

bottle
-a hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
-the contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
-fig.: intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
-to put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
-a bundle, esp. of hay.

bottle green
-a dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.

bottle
-nose
-a cetacean of the dolphin family, of several species, as delphinus tursio and lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of europe.
-the puffin.

bottle
-nosed
-having the nose bottle
-shaped, or large at the end.

bottled
-of bottle
-put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.
-having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.

bottlehead
-a cetacean allied to the grampus;
-- called also bottle
-nosed whale.

bottleholder
-one who attends a pugilist in a prize fight;
-- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.
-one who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.

bottler
-one who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

bottlescrew
-a corkscrew.

bottling
-of bottle
-the act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

bottom
-the lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
-the part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
-that upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
-the bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
-the fundament; the buttocks.
-an abyss.
-low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low
-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
-the part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
-power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
-dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
-of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
-to found or build upon; to fix upon as a support;
-- followed by on or upon.
-to furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
-to reach or get to the bottom of.
-to rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded;
-- usually with on or upon.
-to reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
-a ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
-to wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

bottomed
-of bottom
-having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded;
-- mostly, in composition; as, sharp
-bottomed; well
-bottomed.

bottoming
-of bottom

bottomless
-without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.

bottomry
-a contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. if the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. see hypothecation.

bottone
-having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.

bottony
-alt. of bottone

botts
-see bots.

botuliform
-having the shape of a sausage.

bouch
-a mouth.
-an allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

bouche
-same as bush, a lining.
-same as bush, to line.
-alt. of bouch

bouchees
-small patties.

boud
-a weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

boudoir
-a small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.

bouffe
-comic opera. see opera bouffe.

bougainvillaea
-a genus of plants of the order nyctoginaceae, from tropical south america, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

bouge
-to swell out.
-to bilge.
-to stave in; to bilge.
-bouche (see bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.
-to scoop out with a gouge.
-to scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.
-to cheat in a bargain; to chouse.

bouged
-of bouge

bouget
-a charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water;
-- also called water bouget.

bough
-an arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
-a gallows.

bought
-a flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
-the part of a sling that contains the stone.
-imp. & p. p. of buy.
-purchased; bribed.
-of buy

boughten
-purchased; not obtained or produced at home.

boughty
-bending.

bougie
-a long, flexible instrument, that is
-a long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. it is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

bouilli
-boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

bouillon
-a nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
-an excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

bouk
-the body.
-bulk; volume.

boul
-a curved handle.

boulangerite
-a mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. it is a sulphide of antimony and lead.

boulder
-same as bowlder.
-a large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
-a mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. see drift.

bouldery
-characterized by bowlders.

boule
-alt. of boulework

boulevard
-originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
-a public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. hence: a broad avenue in or around a city.

bouleversement
-complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

boulework
-same as buhl, buhlwork.

boultel
-alt. of boultin

boulter
-a long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

boultin
-a molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the tuscan and roman doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
-one of the shafts of a clustered column.

boun
-ready; prepared; destined; tending.
-to make or get ready.

bounce
-to strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
-to leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
-to boast; to talk big; to bluster.
-to drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
-to cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
-to eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
-to bully; to scold.
-a sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
-a heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
-an explosion, or the noise of one.
-bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
-a dogfish of europe (scyllium catulus).
-with a sudden leap; suddenly.

bounced
-of bounce

bouncer
-one who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
-a boaster; a bully.
-a bold lie; also, a liar.
-something big; a good stout example of the kind.

bouncing
-of bounce
-stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
-excessive; big.

bouncingly
-with a bounce.

bound
-of bind
-of bind
-the external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
-to limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of;
-- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
-to name the boundaries of; as, to bound france.
-to move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
-to rebound, as an elastic ball.
-to make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
-to cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
-a leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
-rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
-spring from one foot to the other.
-imp. & p. p. of bind.
-restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
-inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
-under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
-constrained or compelled; destined; certain;
-- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
-resolved; as, i am bound to do it.
-constipated; costive.
-ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going;
-- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to cadiz, or for cadiz.

boundaries
-of boundary

boundary
-that which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

bounded
-of bound

bounden
-of bind
-bound; fastened by bonds.
-under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.
-made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.

bounder
-one who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

bounding
-of bound
-moving with a bound or bounds.

boundless
-without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.

bounteous
-liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.

bounties
-of bounty

bountiful
-free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
-plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.

bountihead
-alt. of bountyhood

bounty
-goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
-liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
-that which is given generously or liberally.
-a premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.

bountyhood
-goodness; generosity.

bouquet
-a nosegay; a bunch of flowers.
-a perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

bouquetin
-the ibex.

bour
-a chamber or a cottage.

bourbon
-a member of a family which has occupied several european thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of france.
-a politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

bourbon whisky
-see under whisky.

bourbonism
-the principles of those adhering to the house of bourbon; obstinate conservatism.

bourbonist
-one who adheres to the house of bourbon; a legitimist.

bourd
-a jest.
-to jest.

bourder
-a jester.

bourdon
-a pilgrim's staff.
-a drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy
-gurdy. see burden (of a song.)
-a kind of organ stop.

bourgeois
-a size of type between long primer and brevier. see type.
-a man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
-characteristic of the middle class, as in france.

bourgeoisie
-the french middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

bourgeon
-to sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

bouri
-a mullet (mugil capito) found in the rivers of southern europe and in africa.

bourn
-alt. of bourne
-alt. of bourne

bourne
-a stream or rivulet; a burn.
-a bound; a boundary; a limit. hence: point aimed at; goal.

bournless
-without a bourn or limit.

bournonite
-a mineral of a steel
-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. it is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

bournous
-see burnoose.

bourree
-an old french dance tune in common time.

bourse
-an exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the stock exchange of paris.

bouse
-to drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. see booze.
-drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

bouser
-a toper; a boozer.

boustorphic
-boustrophedonic.

boustrophedon
-an ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early greek and hittite.

boustrophedonic
-relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.

bousy
-drunken; sotted; boozy.

bout
-as much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
-a conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set
-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

boutade
-an outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

boutefeu
-an incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.

boutonniere
-a bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

bouts
-rimes
-words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

bovate
-an oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

bovey coal
-a kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor;
-- found at bovey tracey, devonshire, england. it is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.

bovid
-relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus bos is the type.

boviform
-resembling an ox in form; ox
-shaped.

bovine
-of or pertaining to the genus bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
-having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.

bow
-to cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
-to exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
-to bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
-to cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
-to express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
-to bend; to curve.
-to stop.
-to bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission;
-- often with down.
-to incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
-an inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
-anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
-a weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
-an ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
-the u
-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
-an appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
-an arcograph.
-any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
-a rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
-two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
-to play (music) with a bow.
-to manage the bow.
-the bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
-one who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.

bow hand
-the hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.
-the hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand.

bow net
-a trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel
-shaped entrance at one end.
-a net for catching birds.

bow oar
-the oar used by the bowman.
-one who rows at the bow of a boat.

bow
-bells
-the bells of bow church in london; cockneydom.

bow
-compass
-an arcograph.
-a small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. its legs are often connected by a bow
-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.
-a pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.

bow
-compasses
-of bow
-compass

bow
-pen
-bow
-compasses carrying a drawing pen. see bow
-compass.

bow
-pencil
-bow
-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.

bow
-saw
-a saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

bowable
-capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

bowbell
-one born within hearing distance of bow
-bells; a cockney.

bowbent
-bent, like a bow.

bowed
-of bow
-of bow

bowel
-one of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut;
-- generally used in the plural.
-hence, figuratively: the interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
-the seat of pity or kindness. hence: tenderness; compassion.
-offspring.
-to take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

boweled
-of bowel
-having bowels; hollow.

boweling
-of bowel

bowelled
-of bowel

bowelless
-without pity.

bowelling
-of bowel

bowenite
-a hard, compact variety of serpentine found in rhode island. it is of a light green color and resembles jade.

bower
-one who bows or bends.
-an anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
-a muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
-one of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
-anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
-a rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
-a shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
-to embower; to inclose.
-to lodge.
-a young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

bower bird
-an australian bird (ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright
-colored objects; the satin bird.

boweries
-of bowery

bowery
-shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
-a farm or plantation with its buildings.
-characteristic of the street called the bowery, in new york city; swaggering; flashy.

bowess
-same as bower.

bowfin
-a voracious ganoid fish (amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the united states; the mudfish;
-- called also johnny grindle, and dogfish.

bowge
-to swell out. see bouge.
-to cause to leak.

bowgrace
-a frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

bowhead
-the great arctic or greenland whale. (balaena mysticetus). see baleen, and whale.

bowie knife
-a knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double
-edged near the point;
-- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the united states. it was named from its inventor, colonel james bowie. also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

bowing
-of bow
-of bow
-the act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
-in hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

bowingly
-in a bending manner.

bowknot
-a knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

bowl
-a concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
-specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
-the contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
-the hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
-a ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
-an ancient game, popular in great britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
-the game of tenpins or bowling.
-to roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
-to roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
-to pelt or strike with anything rolled.
-to play with bowls.
-to roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
-to move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

bowl
-legged
-having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.

bowlder
-alt. of boulder

bowldery
-characterized by bowlders.

bowled
-of bowl

bowleg
-a crooked leg.

bowler
-one who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

bowless
-destitute of a bow.

bowline
-a rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

bowling
-of bowl
-the act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

bowls
-see bowl, a ball, a game.

bowman
-a man who uses a bow; an archer.
-the man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

bowmen
-of bowman

bowne
-to make ready; to prepare; to dress.

bowse
-to carouse; to bouse; to booze.
-to pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.
-a carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

bowshot
-the distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

bowsprit
-a large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

bowssen
-to drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

bowstring
-the string of a bow.
-a string used by the turks for strangling offenders.
-to strangle with a bowstring.

bowstringed
-of bowstring
-furnished with bowstring.
-put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

bowstringing
-of bowstring

bowstrung
-of bowstring

bowtel
-see boultel.

bowwow
-an onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.
-onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.

bowyer
-an archer; one who uses bow.
-one who makes or sells bows.

box
-a tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. the common box (buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (b. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. the wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.
-a receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.
-the quantity that a box contain.
-a space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.
-a chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.
-a small country house.
-a boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.
-an axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.
-a chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
-the driver's seat on a carriage or coach.
-a present in a box; a present; esp. a christmas box or gift.
-the square in which the pitcher stands.
-a mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
-to inclose in a box.
-to furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
-to inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
-a blow on the head or ear with the hand.
-to fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.
-to strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.
-to boxhaul.

box
-iron
-a hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

boxberry
-the wintergreen. (gaultheria procumbens).

boxed
-of box

boxen
-made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (buxus).

boxer
-one who packs boxes.
-one who boxes; a pugilist.

boxes
-of box

boxfish
-the trunkfish.

boxhaul
-to put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel;
-- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).

boxhauled
-of boxhaul

boxhauling
-a method of going from one tack to another. see boxhaul.

boxing
-of box
-the act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
-material used in making boxes or casings.
-any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
-the external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
-the act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.

boxkeeper
-an attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

boxthorn
-a plant of the genus lycium, esp. lycium barbarum.

boxwood
-the wood of the box (buxus).

boy
-a male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
-to act as a boy;
-- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

boyar
-alt. of boyard

boyard
-a member of a russian aristocratic order abolished by peter the great. also, one of a privileged class in roumania.

boyau
-a winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

boyaus
-of boyau

boyaux
-of boyau

boycott
-to combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
-the process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

boycotted
-of boycott

boycotter
-a participant in boycotting.

boycotting
-of boycott

boycottism
-methods of boycotters.

boydekin
-a dagger; a bodkin.

boyer
-a flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

boyhood
-the state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.

boyish
-resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

boyishly
-in a boyish manner; like a boy.

boyishness
-the manners or behavior of a boy.

boyism
-boyhood.
-the nature of a boy; childishness.

boyle's law
-see under law.

boza
-an acidulated fermented drink of the arabs and egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.

bolete
-any fungus of the family boletaceae.