A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.

The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.

A fencer's foil.

Dull; stupid.

made dull or blunt.

Somewhat blunt.

In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; lack of sharpness.

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

out of focus; not sharply defined.

Full of blurs; blurred.

To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

rose-colored.

One that blushes.

A modest girl.

Full of blushes.

The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.

In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.

Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.

Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.

In a blustering manner.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.

Blusterous.

an abbreviation for bowel movement; -- used as an informal euphemism, especially in hospitals.

any automobile manufactured by the German firm BMW AG (from the German Bayerische MotorWerke); -- sometimes referred to colloquially as a beemer.

An exclamation used to startle or frighten.

a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.

A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (Boa imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (Boa eques).

The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

That can be boarded, as a ship.

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.

a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.

a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).

the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.

a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at a seaside. The more elaborate boardwalks at shore resorts are lined with many commercial retail establishments, on the side of the walk opposite the ocean.

A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproid/; -- 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.

Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

Boasting.

A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

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

The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

Boastfully; with boasting.

Presumptuous.

Without boasting or ostentation.

To go or row in a boat.

See Cymbiform.

A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

Such as can be transported in a boat.

Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

A house for sheltering boats.

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

The art of managing a boat.

A boatman.

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.

A woman who manages a boat.

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

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

The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

A boasting.

One who, or that which, bobs.

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

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

Work woven with bobbins.

Hearty; in good spirits.

A nickname for a British policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.

same as bobbysoxer.

a sock that reaches just above the ankle.

an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .

small lynx (Lynx rufus) of North America.

a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.

The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

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

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

Bobtailed.

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

The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.

A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.

A sort of fine buckram.

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

A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

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

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

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.

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.

a Buddhist, worthy of nirvana, who postpones it to help others.

See Bodick.

Bid or bidden.

Portentous; ominous.

An omen; a prognostic.

See Budge.

One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world.

A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

Wearing a bodice.

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

Same as bodkin; -- a variant spelling.

Having no body.

Corporeality.

Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.

A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

See Baudekin.

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

The Osage orange.

A raid.

To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.