One who budges.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

of or pertaining to a budget; as, budgetary considerations.

small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.

Consisting of fur.

A little bud springing from a parent bud.

a genus of mammals comprising the gnu goats.

The capital city of Argentina. Population (2000) = 3,000,000.

Firm; sturdy.

The comic actress in an opera. Comic, farcical.

A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (Bubalus bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

any of several large carplike North American fish.

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.

to add a buffer{5} to (a solution), so as to reduce unwanted fluctuation of acidity.

containing a buffer{5}; -- of solutions, usually aqueous solutions.

The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

a brand of aspirin tablets coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (a /buffer/); -- sometimes applied generically to any buffered aspirin preparation.

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; as, buffeted by criticism.

One who buffets; a boxer.

A striking with the hand.

A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.

To puzzle; to be at a loss.

Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.

One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.

The comic actor in an opera.

To act the part of a buffoon.

To treat with buffoonery.

The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.

Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.

The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

Low; vulgar.

Resembling, or characterized by, buff.

A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

a natural family comprising the true toads.

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the o/lite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

to annoy; to bother or pester.

A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculace/ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

To alarm with idle phantoms.

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc.

The menhaden.

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

The state of being infested with bugs.

A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.

A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.

Ornamented with bugles.

One who plays on a bugle.

A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. Lycopus Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.

A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the Anchusa officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.

Bugbane.

See Bulbul.

Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man.

the act of building up an accumulation.

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.

strong and heavily built; -- of people.

The capital city of Burundi. Population (2000) = 300,000.

See Backsheesh.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Bulbous.

Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

Having a bulb; round-headed.

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

Producing bulbs.

A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost exclusively: An a/rial bulb or deciduous bud, produced in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; -- called also bulblet and brood bud.

A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some a/rial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

A corm.

Bulbous.

Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliid/. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.

A small bulb; a bulblet.

A little bull.

To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.

A driver or a brassy with a convex face.

curving or bulging outward. Opposite of concave.

parched crushed wheat.

Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.

of or pertaining to bulimia.

A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

A projecting part of a building.

A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

Greatness in bulk; size.

Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.

A seal. See Bulla.

any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes of the genus Pituophis. They include the gopher snake and pine snake.

Having a short, thick and muscular neck like that of a bull.

A contrivance consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.

A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

An external angle when obtuse or rounded.

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum. The bully tree.

Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.

A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.

Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.

A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typh/us vulgaris of Europe.

Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.

To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.

One who bulldozes.

Swollen.

The lyre bird.

A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

A small ball.

a head shaped like a bullet.

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet; resistant to penetration by a bullet; armored; as, a bulletproof vest; a bulletproof window.

Having a large face.

See Bullfight.

A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

the activity at a bullfight.

a sport of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain, Portugal and Latin American. In the Spanish version a matador kills the bull with a sword after the bull has been weakened by wounds from small barbed rods, and after he has displayed courage and artistic skill in causing the bull to charge many times while he stands still or nearly still. In some versions the bull is not killed. Occasionally the matador is wounded or killed by the bull.

A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the Pyrrhula vulgaris or Pyrrhula rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.