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.

A supporter.

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

See Boultel.

A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

See Bowsprit.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

Same as Booly.

A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.

To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere.

a natural family of tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds.

Cotton; padding.

To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.

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.

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.

Same as Bombazine.

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

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

a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.

a short men's jacket made of leather, having a zipper in front, knitted cuffs, and ribbed trim.

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

To hum; to buzz.

A humming sound; a booming.

To hum; to boom.

A humming or buzzing.

A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.

Secure against the explosive force of bombs. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.

a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs.

bumblebees.

Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycid/.

waxwings.

Silken; made of silk.

a natural family of dipterous insects comprising the bee flies.

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

A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

Good; valid as security for something.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

Good will; good fellowship; agreement.

A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper. Also, any one of several other similar fishes.

Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

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

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.

One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.

The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.

Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

A small fancy box or dish for bonbons.

A boy's game played with large marbles.

A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

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

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond.

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.

A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

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

A freeholder on a small scale.

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

the process of fastening firmly together.

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

A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.

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

A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

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

See Bondwoman.

See Nicker tree.

A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

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.

without a trace of moisture.

disinclined to work or exertion.

Pain in the bones.

See Bone black, under Bone, n.

Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.

The spiny dogfish.

See Ladyfish.

a person of low intelligence; a dunce; a blockhead; -- used deprecatingly to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence or capabilities.

very stupid; -- used of people or actions.

Without bones.

a small bone; especially one in the middle ear.

resembling bone.

ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content.

an embarrassing mistake.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

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

Sciatica.

See Bonito.

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

one of a pair of attached small drums, each tuned to a different pitch, played by striking with the hands.