The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.
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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.
See Bumboat.
A glass used in subliming camphor.
to bungle (a task).
A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
The old game of nineholes.
not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; as, a bumbling mechanic.
A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.
An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a loafer; a dissipated sponger; one who bums.
See Bottomery.
The noise made by the bittern.
To kill (a person); to murder; -- used commonly of planned assassination by criminals; as, the mob bumped off all the witnesses.
That which bumps or causes a bump.
moving slowly with little space between; -- used of road traffic.
An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
unsophisticated in a manner resembling a lifelong resident of rural areas; as, bumpkinly country boys.
Self-conceited; forward; pushing.
Conceitedness.
same as blood urea nitrogen; the concentration of nitrogen in blood present in the form of urea; -- used as a measure of kidney function.
a synthetic rubber made by copolymerizing butadiene with another substance such as acrylonitrile or styrene.
a sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.
To form into a bunch or bunches.
Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
Swelling out in bunches.
see bunko.
An embankment against inundation.
A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
See Legislature, Switzerland.
Lit., a federal council, esp. of the German Empire. In the German Empire the legislative functions are vested in the Bundesrath and the Reichstag. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
sold together as a single item; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together.
dressed warmly; as, bundled-up sailors and soldiers.
a former custom, especially in New England, in which unmarried couples occupied the same bed without undressing, especially during courtship. See bundle{2}, v. i.
System; discipline.
To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
of or pertaining to a bungalow; similar to a bungalow.
A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.
A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
a spring or other elastic device, especially one attached to a control to facilitate its manipulation.
a strong elastic cord, usually with a hook at each end, used as a shock-absorbing device or to bind packages together, as on a dolly or handcart.
an act of derring-do in which a person jumps from a high platform, such as a bridge, attached (usually by the legs) to a bungee cord, which is set to a length that will halt the drop before the person reaches the surface of the earth or the water.
See Bung, n., 2.
A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
performed poorly or inadequately; as, a bungled job; the Watergate scandal started with a bungled burglary.
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
awkward to move or use especially because of shape; as, a load of bunglesome paraphernalia.
Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.
Clumsily; awkwardly.
A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.
Same as Bunyon.
An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the burs/ muscos/), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
an Australian timber tree (Flindersia schottiana) whose bark yields a poison.
To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
A type of multiple bed in which the individual beds are arranged one above the other. It is used to save space in crowded quarters.
To drive (the ball) into a bunker.
someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as oneself.
To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc.
See Buncombe.
Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
See Bun.
any of a variety of slightly sweetened or plain raised cakes or bisquits, often having a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust; as, a hot cross bun.
See Bunyon.
A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.
the buttocks.
same as bunsen burner; a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air.
To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
a fine white Philippine fiber from the stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats.
A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillid/).
One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
To float; to rise like a buoy.
Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
Buoyancy.
The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larv/ are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
a light gabardine raincoat of the type made by Burberry's of London.
to to make a burbling sound; -- used of water, especially brooks.
uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; as, a novel told in burbly panting tones.
A birdbolt.
A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
A sort of grape.
A club.
bearing a heavy load; as, a hiker burdened with a heavy backpack.
One who loads; an oppressor.
Burdensome.
Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
A pilgrim's staff.
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