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.

A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

Of or pertaining to Bolivia. A native of Bolivia.

To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

The Jesuit editors of the /Acta Sanctorum/, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

See Boln, a.

Swollen; puffed out.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

one of the two male reproductive glands; a testis; -- usually spelled ballock, and usually used in the plural.

to make a mess of.

The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

To swell; to puff.

A kind of large knife resembling a machete.

A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.

Of or pertaining to Bologna. A native of Bologna.

Bolognese.

a record or recording made by a bolometer.

of or pertaining to a bolograph.

An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance.

of or pertaining to a bolometer.

An exchange for the transaction of business.

of or pertaining to Bolsheviks or bolshevism.

to render communistic; -- of governments.

obstreperous.

a communist or Bolshevik, n..

To support with a bolster or pillow.

Supported; upheld.

A supporter.

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

See Boultel.

A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

See Bowsprit.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

Same as Booly.

A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.

To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere.

a natural family of tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds.

Cotton; padding.

To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.

Same as Bombazine.

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.

a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.

a short men's jacket made of leather, having a zipper in front, knitted cuffs, and ribbed trim.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

To hum; to buzz.

A humming sound; a booming.

To hum; to boom.

A humming or buzzing.

A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.

Secure against the explosive force of bombs. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.

A bomb. See Bomb, n.

a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs.

bumblebees.

Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycid/.

waxwings.

Silken; made of silk.

a natural family of dipterous insects comprising the bee flies.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.

A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

Good; valid as security for something.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

Good will; good fellowship; agreement.

A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper. Also, any one of several other similar fishes.

Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.