Having the form of a cluster of grapes. Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
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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.
The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents.
Same as Bowlder.
abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.
Characterized by bowlders.
A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.
Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
Corrupted form Bolt.
A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo. One of the shafts of a clustered column.
To make or get ready.
With a sudden leap; suddenly.
One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
With a bounce.
readily regaining its original shape or position after stretching, compression, or other deformation; as, clean bouncy hair.
Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
having the limits or boundaries established.
the quality of being finite.
One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
Moving with a bound or bounds.
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.
the quality of being infinite.
the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; as, the fotball was caught out of bounds.
Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.
rewarded or rewardable by a bounty; as, a bountied animal pelt.
Goodness; generosity.
The ibex.
A chamber or a cottage.
The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.
To jest.
A jester.
A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.) A kind of organ stop.
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
Without a bourn or limit.
A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
See Burnoose.
An old French dance tune in common time.
An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
common black-fruited shrub or small tree (Sambucus nigra) of Europe and Asia; -- the fruit is used for wines and jellies.
Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.
A toper; a boozer.
Boustrophedonic.
An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
Drunken; sotted; boozy.
An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
The location where in 1214 the French under King Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages.
An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
a term essentially coextensive with the genus Bos, including cattle, buffalo, and sometimes kudu; -- it is not used technically.
a term essentially coextensive with the genus Bos; -- it is not used technically.
an extract of beef (given to people who are ill).
To play (music) with a bow. To manage the bow.
The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.
An arcograph.
Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.
Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.
A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.
Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.
One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
Bent, like a bow.
the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
same as bowdlerize.
the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
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