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Booted

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

Bootee

A half boot or short boot.

Bootes

A northern constellation of stars near Ursa Major, containing the bright star Arcturus.

Booth

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

Boothale

To forage for booty; to plunder.

Boothose

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

Boothy 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.

Bootikin

A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

Booting

A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

bootlace

a long lace for fastening boots.

bootleg

to sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.

Bootless

Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

bootlicker

someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect.

bootlicking

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

Boots

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

Boottopping

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.

Boottree

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.

Booty

That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

booyong

large tree (Heritiera trifoliolata or Terrietia trifoliolata) of Australasia.

Booze

A carouse; a drinking.

Boozer

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

boozing

the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.

Boozy

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

bop

an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).

Bopeep

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.

Borachte

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.

Boracic

Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

Boracite

A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

Boracous

Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

Borage

A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Boraginaceous

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginace/) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

Boragineous

Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.

Borassus

a genus of palm trees including the palmyra (Borassus flabellifer, formerly Borassus flabelliformis).

Borate

A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

borated

mixed or impregnated with borax.

Borax

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

Borborygm

A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.

Bordage

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Bordar

A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

Bordeaux

Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France. A claret wine from Bordeaux.

Bordelais

Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.

Bordeller

A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.

Bordello

a building where prostitutes are available for hire; a brothel.

Border

To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

Bordereau

A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.

bordered

having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term; as, black-bordered handkerchief. Antonym of unbordered.

Borderer

One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.

Bordland

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.

Bordlode

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.

Bordman

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

Bordure

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

Bore

imp. of 1st 2d Bear.

bore-hole

a hole or passage made by a drill, especially one made for exploratory purposes.

Boreal

Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.

Boreas

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

Borecole

A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

bored

tired of the world; bored with life.

Boredom

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

Borele

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

Borer

One that bores; an instrument for boring.

Boric

Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

Boride

A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.

Boring

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

Born

Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.

Borne

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

Borneol

A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

Bornite

A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

Borofluoride

A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.

Boroglyceride

A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.

Boron

A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic number 5. Atomic weight 10.81. Symbol B.

Borosilicate

A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

Borough

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. The pledge or surety thus given.

Borough-English

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.

Boroughmonger

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

Borrel

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

Borrow

Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

borscht

a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

borsh

a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

borshch

a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Borsholder

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.

borsht

a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

Borstal

a British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.

Bort

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

bortsch

a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian shchi.

borzoi

tall, slender fast-moving dog breed; called also Russian wolfhound.

Bos

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

bosa

A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

bosc

A greenish-yellow variety of pear.

boscage

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

Bose-Einstein statistics

A law of statistical mechanics which is obeyed by a system of particles when interchange of two particles does not change the wave function. Contrasted to Fermi-Dirac statistics. See also boson.

Boselaphus

A genus of Indian antelopes; the nilgais.

Bosh

Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

Boshbok

A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

Boshvark

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

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