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).

A breed of dog.

The trunkfish.

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).

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

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

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

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

The wood of the box (Buxus).

resembling a box in rectangularity.

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

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

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.

A participant in boycotting.

Methods of boycotters.

A dagger; a bodkin.

A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

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

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

In a boyish manner; like a boy.

The manners or behavior of a boy.

Boyhood.

same as boyish.

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.

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

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

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.

same as brassiere.

Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.

A brabble.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.

held up by braces or buttresses.

An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.

A bitch of the hound kind.

A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet.

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

same as bratchet.

See Brachium.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

One of the Brachioganoidei.

An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.

A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

See Brahman.

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Having short antenn/, as certain insects.

The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.

A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

A writer in short hand; a stenographer.

Stenography.

Conciseness of expression; brevity.

A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

Having short wings.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

abnormal shortness of fingers and toes.

Of a short form.

A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

One of the Brachyura.

Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the Brachyura.

The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.