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.

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

Good nature; pleasant and easy manner.

See Bonnibel.

An innkeeper.

Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.

To convert into, or make, good.

The condition or quality of being bony.

The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

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

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.

A witty repartee; a jest.

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

A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.

Wearing a bonnet.

small harmless hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries.

Without a bonnet.

A handsome girl.

See Bonny, a.

A /bonny lass/; a beautiful girl.

Gayly; handsomely.

The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.

A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.

An anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus), resembling but smaller than the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes); -- called also pygmy chimpanzee. It is found in the forests of Zaire. Its genome is the closest known to humans, differing by less than 2% in nucleotide sequence.

A curling match between clubs.

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.

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.

remarkable or wonderful.

to show displeasure (after a performance or speech) by making a prolonged sound of /boo/.

an embarrassing mistake.

an ignorant or foolish person.

Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

Stupid; dull.

Same as Buddha.

Same as Buddhism.

Same as Buddhist.

The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

To do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music.

An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).

The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.

subject to being reserved or booked.

One whose occupation is to bind books.

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

The art, process, or business of binding books.

A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

Authorship; literary skill.

Registered.

A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table).

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

As much as will fill a book; a book full. Filled with book learning.

A prompter at a theater.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

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

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.

Without books; unlearned.

A little book.

a minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

A studious man; a scholar.

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.

A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

A dealer in books.

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

One who sells books.

The employment of selling books.

A shelf to hold books.

A bookseller's shop.

A stall or stand where books are sold.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

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

Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

Bookish.

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.

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.

a large portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver. It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes.

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

One who, or that which, booms.

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.

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.

Same as Bumkin.

A small West African chevrotain (Hy/moschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.