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.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

To explore for botanical purposes.

One who botanizes.

A botanist.

The science of botany.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

To mark with, or as with, botches.

In a clumsy manner.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.

Bungling; awkward.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

A dipterous insect of the family (Estrid/, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larv/ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

As well; not only; equally.

A factotum.

One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

One who bothers.

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Same as Bothy.

Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.

Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbor/s.

A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences; as, botryoidal hematite.

A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes. Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

The larv/ of several species of botfly, especially those larv/ which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.

A bundle, esp. of hay.

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.

to feed with a bottle; -- of infants or baby animals.

Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.

A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.

a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles.

a cap that seals a bottle.

Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

the quantity contained in a bottle.

a European foxtail naturalized in North America; it is often a troublesome weed.

A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale-- bottle-nosed dolphin? -->.

One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

to become narrower as one approaches a point; -- said of roads; as, right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks.

One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

A corkscrew.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and sealing the bottles, as with a cork or a bottle cap.

To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

planning or building the smallest parts first; as, bottom-up programming. Opposite of top-down.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

low-lying alluvial land near a river.

Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.

See Bots.

Having the shape of a sausage.

Same as Bush, to line.

Small patties.

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's bedroom; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.

being puffed out; -- used mostly of hair style, and sometimes clothing; as, a bouffant hairdo; a bouffant skirt.

Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.

A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginace/, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

To scoop out with a gouge.

A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.

having no limbs. Opposite of limbed.

Purchased; bribed.

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.

Bending.

Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

A curved handle.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.