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Bottle green

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

Bottle-nosed

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

bottlebrush

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

Bottled

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

bottlegrass

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

Bottlehead

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

Bottleholder

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

bottleneck

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

Bottler

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

Bottling

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.

Bottom

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

bottom-up

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

Bottomed

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

Bottomless

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

Bottomry

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.

Bottone Bottony

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

Boucherize

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

Boud

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

Boudoir

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.

bouffant

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

Bouffe

Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.

Bougainvillaea

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

Bouge

To scoop out with a gouge.

Bouget

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

boughless

having no limbs. Opposite of limbed.

Boughten

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.

Bouilli

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.

Bouillon

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

Boul

A curved handle.

Boulangerite

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

Boulangism

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.

bouldered

abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.

Boule

A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.

Boulevardier

A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris.

Boult

Corrupted form Bolt.

Boulter

A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

Boultin Boultel

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.

Boun

To make or get ready.

Bounce

With a sudden leap; suddenly.

Bouncer

One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

Bouncing

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.

bouncy

readily regaining its original shape or position after stretching, compression, or other deformation; as, clean bouncy hair.

Bound

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.

Boundary

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.

bounded

having the limits or boundaries established.

Bounder

One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

Boundless

Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.

bounds

the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; as, the fotball was caught out of bounds.

Bounteous

Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.

bountied

rewarded or rewardable by a bounty; as, a bountied animal pelt.

Bour

A chamber or a cottage.

Bourbonism

The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.

Bourbonist

One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.

Bourdon

A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.) A kind of organ stop.

Bourgeois

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

Bourgeoisie

The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

Bourgeon

To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

Bouri

A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

Bourne Bourn

A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

Bournonite

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.

Bourree

An old French dance tune in common time.

Bourse

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

bourtree

common black-fruited shrub or small tree (Sambucus nigra) of Europe and Asia; -- the fruit is used for wines and jellies.

Bouse

Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

Boustrophedon

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.

Bousy

Drunken; sotted; boozy.

Boutade

An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

Boutefeu

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.

Bouts-rimes

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

Bouvines

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.

Bovate

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.

Bovid

Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

Boviform

Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.

Bovinae

a term essentially coextensive with the genus Bos, including cattle, buffalo, and sometimes kudu; -- it is not used technically.

Bovini

a term essentially coextensive with the genus Bos; -- it is not used technically.

Bovril

an extract of beef (given to people who are ill).

Bow

To play (music) with a bow. To manage the bow.

Bow-bells

The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.

Bow-pen

Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.

Bow-pencil

Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.

Bow-saw

A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

Bowable

Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

Bowbell

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.

Bowdlerize

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.

bowed

bent over; -- used of back or head.

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