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.

an establishment where the frame or outer body of a vehicle may be repaired or painted; -- contrasted with a mechanic, who repairs the motor and other working components.

someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature.

exercise that builds muscles through tension.

A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

the exterior body of a motor vehicle.

the mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers.

a genus comprising the false nettle.

a district of ancient Greece northwest of Athens.

Of or pertaining to B/otia. A native of B/otia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Behoves or behooves.

meat from an adult domestic bovine.

a scientist or technician, especially one engaged in military research.

highly successful; superbly well done.

a hearty laugh.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

Humphrey DeForest Bogart, famous movie actor; most commonly called Humphrey Bogart; b. 1899, d. 1957.

of or pertaining to Humphrey Bogart.

a perennial plant of Europe and America (Menyanthes trifoliata) having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at the water margin and spreading across the surface; -- called also bog myrtle, water shamrock and marsh trefoil.

The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

A goblin; a bugbear.

A goblin; a bugbear; a bogey{1}. This is the form used by parents to frighten children; as, if you don't eat your vegetables, the bogeyman will get you.

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc.

A bogey.

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

One who boggles.

Doubtful; skittish.

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

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.

A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

The capital city of Colombia. Population (2000) = 45,448.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

Living among bogs.

The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.

A liquor made of rum and molasses.

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.

A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

A country of central Europe.

A native of Bohemia.

The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.

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.

See Boilery.

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

expressing the essence; condensed; summarized.

A sunken reef; esp., a coral reef on which the sea breaks heavily.

a loose protective smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

With boiling or ebullition.

A box.

Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.

In a boisterous manner.

The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.

Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.

See Cerberus.

To poke; to thrust.

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

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.

To be or become bold.

Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman.

To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.

to print in boldface.

In a bold manner.

The state or quality of being bold.

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.

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 projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.

A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

any fungus of the family Boletaceae.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the 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.

A kind of meteor; a bolis.

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

Of or pertaining to Bolivia. A native of Bolivia.

To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

The Jesuit editors of the /Acta Sanctorum/, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

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

See Boln, a.

Swollen; puffed out.

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

one of the two male reproductive glands; a testis; -- usually spelled ballock, and usually used in the plural.

to make a mess of.

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.

To swell; to puff.

A kind of large knife resembling a machete.

A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.

Of or pertaining to Bologna. A native of Bologna.

Bolognese.

a record or recording made by a bolometer.

of or pertaining to a bolograph.

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

of or pertaining to a bolometer.

An exchange for the transaction of business.

of or pertaining to Bolsheviks or bolshevism.

a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin.

to render communistic; -- of governments.

obstreperous.

a communist or Bolshevik, n..

To support with a bolster or pillow.

Supported; upheld.