A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculace/ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
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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.
Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
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.
Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.
A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.
A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. Uranidea gobio of Europe, and Uranidea Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb. In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout. A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.
Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.
resolute adherence to one's own ideas or desires.
a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier.
frightened into submission or compliance.
Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.
To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.
A writer or drawer up of papal bulls.
The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.
To bully.
See Bull's-eye, 3.
A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).
an open area in a baseball stadium, off the playing field, where pitchers may warm up by throwing a number of trial pitches before playing.
See Bullhead, 1 (b).
to talk through one's hat.
vodka and beef bouillon or consomme.
Knapweed.
See Bishop's-weed.
To act as a bully{1}.
Well done! Excellent!
Pickled or canned beef.
An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the United States, which was described thus by President Theodore Rossevelt.
Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.
Same as Bullirag.
A bully.
A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.
A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.
A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran.
Same as Bolty.
Biltong.
A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
A humming noise.
To borrow without intention of returning; to cadge; as, to bum a cigarette; to bum a cup of coffee; -- usually with inexpensive items as the object.
See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.
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