Hearty; in good spirits.
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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.
The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
With boiling or ebullition.
A box.
Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
In a boisterous manner.
The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.
See Cerberus.
To poke; to thrust.
Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
To be or become bold.
Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman.
To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
to print in boldface.
In a bold manner.
The state or quality of being bold.
A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.
A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.
any fungus of the family Boletaceae.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.
A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.
A kind of meteor; a bolis.
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