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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.

Bowel

To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Bowenite

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

Bower

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

Bowery

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

Bowfin

A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

Bowgrace

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.

Bowhead

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Bal/na mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

Bowiea

a small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.

Bowing

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

Bowknot

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.

Bowl

To play with bowls.

Bowl-legged

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.

bowlful

the quantity contained in a bowl.

Bowline

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.

Bowling

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

Bowls

See Bowl, a ball, a game.

Bowman

The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

Bowne

To make ready; to prepare; to dress.

Bowse

A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

Bowshot

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

Bowsprit

A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

Bowssen

To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

Bowwow

An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark. Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.

Box-iron

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

box-number

the mailing address to which answers to a newspaper ad can be sent.

Boxberry

The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

boxed

enclosed in or set off by a border or box; as, boxed sections of the report; boxed announcements in the newspaper.

Boxen

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).

Boxhaul

To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).

Boxhauling

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

Boxing

The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.

Boxkeeper

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

Boxthorn

A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

Boxwood

The wood of the box (Buxus).

Boy

To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

Boyard Boyar

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

Boyau

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

Boycott

The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

Boyer

A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

Boyhood

The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.

Boyish

Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

Boyne

a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690, where William III of England defeated the deposed James II and so ended Stuart Catholicism in England.

boys-and-girls

a Eurafrican annual (Mercurialis annua) naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic.

boysenberry

a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor.

Boza

An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.

bra

same as brassiere.

Brabantine

Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.

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