Without boasting or ostentation.
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To go or row in a boat.
See Cymbiform.
A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
Such as can be transported in a boat.
Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
A house for sheltering boats.
The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
The art of managing a boat.
A boatman.
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
A woman who manages a boat.
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
A boasting.
One who, or that which, bobs.
A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
Work woven with bobbins.
Hearty; in good spirits.
A nickname for a British policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
same as bobbysoxer.
a sock that reaches just above the ankle.
an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .
small lynx (Lynx rufus) of North America.
a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.
The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
Bobtailed.
Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
A sort of fine buckram.
The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret.
A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
See Bookland.
Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
a Buddhist, worthy of nirvana, who postpones it to help others.
See Bodick.
Bid or bidden.
Portentous; ominous.
An omen; a prognostic.
See Budge.
One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world.
A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.
A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
Wearing a bodice.
Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.
Same as bodkin; -- a variant spelling.
Having no body.
Corporeality.
Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
See Baudekin.
A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.
Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
The Osage orange.
A raid.
To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
an establishment where the frame or outer body of a vehicle may be repaired or painted; -- contrasted with a mechanic, who repairs the motor and other working components.
someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature.
exercise that builds muscles through tension.
A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
the exterior body of a motor vehicle.
the mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers.
a genus comprising the false nettle.
a district of ancient Greece northwest of Athens.
Of or pertaining to B/otia. A native of B/otia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.
A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
Behoves or behooves.
meat from an adult domestic bovine.
a scientist or technician, especially one engaged in military research.
highly successful; superbly well done.
a hearty laugh.
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, famous movie actor; most commonly called Humphrey Bogart; b. 1899, d. 1957.
of or pertaining to Humphrey Bogart.
a perennial plant of Europe and America (Menyanthes trifoliata) having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at the water margin and spreading across the surface; -- called also bog myrtle, water shamrock and marsh trefoil.
The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
A goblin; a bugbear.
A goblin; a bugbear; a bogey{1}. This is the form used by parents to frighten children; as, if you don't eat your vegetables, the bogeyman will get you.
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.
A bogey.
To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
One who boggles.
Doubtful; skittish.
Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
The capital city of Colombia. Population (2000) = 45,448.
The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
Living among bogs.
The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
A liquor made of rum and molasses.
The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
A country of central Europe.
A native of Bohemia.
The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.
See Boyar.
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
See Boilery.
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
expressing the essence; condensed; summarized.
A sunken reef; esp., a coral reef on which the sea breaks heavily.
a loose protective smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work.
A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
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