A curved handle.
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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.
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.
bent over; -- used of back or head.
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Having bowels; hollow.
Without pity.
A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
Same as Bower.
A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
To cause to leak.
A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Bal/na mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
a small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
In a bending manner.
A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
To play with bowls.
Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.
Characterized by bowlders.
A crooked leg.
A derby hat.
Destitute of a bow.
the quantity contained in a bowl.
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
See Bowl, a ball, a game.
The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.
To make ready; to prepare; to dress.
A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).
To strangle with a bowstring.
Furnished with bowstring.
See Boultel.
An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark. Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.
To boxhaul.
A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
the mailing address to which answers to a newspaper ad can be sent.
The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).
enclosed in or set off by a border or box; as, boxed sections of the report; boxed announcements in the newspaper.
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).
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