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.

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.

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

See Bourd.

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

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

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

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

A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.

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

A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.

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

imp. of 1st 2d Bear.

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

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

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

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.

tired of the world; bored with life.

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

Same as Bourr/e.

See Borrel.

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

One that bores; an instrument for boring.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

of or pertaining to boron.

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

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.

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.

A headborough; a borsholder.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

The practices of a boroughmonger.

See Borachio.

See Borage, n., etc.

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

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

One who borrows.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

a British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.

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

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.

A boride.

Pledge; borrow.

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

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.

A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

A greenish-yellow variety of pear.

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

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.

A genus of Indian antelopes; the nilgais.

Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

See Bushman.

A thicket; a small wood.

Same as Boscage.

Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.

A country in the Balkan penninsula of southeastern Europe, formerly a part of Yugoslavia.

of or pertaining to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

See Boatswain.

Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus.

A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.

See Bosket.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.

Embossed; also, bossy.

A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.

A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.

A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.

a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen; a contraction of boatswain.

a genus of incense-yielding trees of North Africa and India.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, whose hero worship made his narrative a faithful but often uncritical record of details.

The style of Boswell.

See Bots.

Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.

to collect and study plants.