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.
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A curling match between clubs.
The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.
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.
A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.
The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used deprecatingly.
to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work.
Daniel Boone, a noted American frontiersman, 1734-1820.
A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
See Bort.
To drink excessively. See Booze.
A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.
A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to /boost/, or raise, the pressure in the circuit.
Booty; spoil.
One who blacks boots.
Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.
A half boot or short boot.
A northern constellation of stars near Ursa Major, containing the bright star Arcturus.
A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
To forage for booty; to plunder.
Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
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.
A little boot, legging, or gaiter.
A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.
A device for pulling off boots.
a long lace for fastening boots.
to sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
A toady; a bootlicker.
someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect.
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
One who makes boots.
A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
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.
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.
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
large tree (Heritiera trifoliolata or Terrietia trifoliolata) of Australasia.
A carouse; a drinking.
an occasion for heavy drinking.
drunk; intoxicated.
One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.
A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
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.
Capable of being bored.
A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
Plant of the Borage family.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginace/) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
See Barometz.
a genus of palm trees including the palmyra (Borassus flabellifer, formerly Borassus flabelliformis).
A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
mixed or impregnated with borax.
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