Chapter 9

binding,n.ligature, ligsation, astriction, constrictionbandage;obligation, reestraint,restriction; galloon swaddling.binding,a.astringent, astrictive;obligatory,valid.Antonyms:optional, elective.bird,n.(young) fledgeling, nestling; (one year old) annotine;squab;rara avris(rare bird).bird-catcher,n.fowler.bird-catching,n.fowling, birding.birds,n. pl.Aves; Avifauma.Associated words: ornithology, ornithologist, ornithological, ornithotomy, ornithography, ornithoid, ornitholite, ornithon, ornithophilous,game, ornithic, aviary, avicular, aviculture, covey, neossology paleornithollogy, taxidermy, taxidermist, preen, rookery, cote, hutch,coop,cage, avian, poult, auspice, ariel,mute, Mallophaga.birr,n.whirring.birth n.nativity;origin,beginning, nascency, genesis; extraction, lineage; (new birth) regeneration, renaissance, regenesis, palingenesis.Associated words: natal,native, pre-natal, post-natal, ante-natal,abortion, congenital, connate, connascent, connascence, horoscope,genial, genethliac, genethlialogy, genethliacs, sooterkin, uniparous, biparous, pluriparous, viable, viability, primiparous, natality.birthday poem.genethliac.birthmark,n.nævus.birthright,n.inheritance.bisexual,a.hermaphrodite.bishop,n.diocesan, prelate; suffragan, coadjutor, metropolitan.Associated words: episcopal, episcopacy, bishopdom, episcopicide, crosier, chimere, episcopate, rochet, gremial.bishopric,n.diocese,see.bit,n.morsel,fragment,scrap, crumb;mite, ace,scintilla,particle,whit,iota, tittle,grain,atom,jot,molecule,speck,mote.bit by bit.piecemeal.bitch,n.slut;whore.bite,v.champ, nibble,chew;sting,smart, tingle; take hold of, adhere;nip,blight,blast.bite,n.mouthful; wheal.biting,a.stinging,sharp,cutting,sarcastic,caustic, scathing,bitter,satirical,pungent,piquant;nipping,blasting; erosive,corrosive,acrid, mordant.bitter,a.acrid, acerb;poignant,intense;calamitous,distressing,virulent,acrimonious;implacable.bitterness,n.acridity, acerbity;gall, wormwood; poignancy, intensity,severity;rancor,malice, malignity, implacableness.bizarre,a.fantastic,whimsical,grotesque.blab,n.babbler, blabber,telltale.--v.tell,tattle.black,a.sable, ebon,inky, Stygian, Cimmerian,lowering,murky; Ethiopian, Papuan,negro.black,n.stain,smooch; Ethiopian, Papuan,negro.black and blue.livid, ecchymosed.black and blue spot.ecchymosis, suggillation.black art.necromancy,conjuration,magic,sorcery.blacken,v.darken, denigrate; begrime, besmirch,tarnish, discolor;defame, malign.blackguard,n.scoundrel,rascal,villain,ruffian.blackguard,a.vicious,scurrilous, opprobrious,foul.blackguardism,n.ruffianism,scoundrelism,rascality; scurrility,billingsgate.blackhearted,a.villainous,abandoned,reprobate, diabolical,base, depraved.black lead.graphite, plumbago.blackleg,n.(Colloq.)gambler, gamester (disreputable).blackness,n.black, nigritude;atrocity, heinousness, depravity.Black Sea.Euxine.blacksmith,n.ironsmith, farrier,horseshoer.Associated words: Hephestian, anvil.blacksmith's shop.smithy, smithery, farriery, stithy,forge.black vomit.melenemesis.bladder,n.Associated words: cystitis, cystic, cystocele, cystose, cystolith, cystotomy, lithotomy, lithotomist, endoscope, endoscopy, prostate, catheter, litholysis, utricular, lithotrity, lithotome, utriculate.blade,n.leaf (of a plant), spire (of grass);buck,gallant,dandy.blamable,a.culpable,censurable, reprehensible,blameworthy.blame,v.censure,reproach.blame,n.censure,reproach, reprehension,condemnation,stricture, animadversion,reproof; culpability, reprehensibility,demerit, wrongdoing,fault.blameless,a.guiltless, irreprehensible, inculpable, unimpeachable,faultless, irreproachable.blameworthy,a.censurable,blamable.bland,a.suave, mollifying,affable, complaisant;soothing, emollient, demulsive, assuasive.blandish,v.flatter,cajole, caress.blandishment,n.cajolery,wheedling, caresses, blandiloquence.blank,a.void,empty,unfilled; expressionless,vacant:confounded, nonplused, astounded; unmitigated,absolute,downright.blarney,n.(Colloq.) blandiloquence,palaver,blandishment,cajolery,flattery.blamey,v.flatter,cajole,palaver,wheedle,blandish.blasé,a.surfeited (with pleasure), sated,palled.blasphemy,n.sacrilege, calumny, profanity.blast,n.squall, gust;peal, blare, clang;explosion,discharge.blast,v.blight,destroy;frustrate,ruin;explode,rend,open.blasting,n.blighting, carbunculation;frustration,ruination.blat,v.bleat.blatant,a.brawling,clamorous,obstreperous, bawling braying.blaze,n.flame.blazing,a.flaming, ablaze, aflame.Antonym: smoldering.blazon,v.emblazon;publish,display,exhibit.bleach,v.etiolate,whiten, blanch.bleaching,n.blanching,whitening, etiolation.bleak,a.windswept,cheerless,raw,penetrating,desolate,dreary.bleared,a.rheumy.blearedness,n.lippitude, glama, epiphora.bleed,v.exude.bleeding,n.hemorrhage; phlebotomy,bloodletting, venesection.Associated words: tourniquet, garrot, styptic.blemish,v.deface,mar,disfigure, sully.blemish,n.defect,fault,imperfection,eyesore,disfigurement,blot.blench,v.flinch,recoil, shrink from.blend,v.intermingle,fuse,merge,combine,mix, assimilate.blend,n.mixture, merging,fusion, assimilation, synthesis.blessing,n.benediction, benison, beatitude;boon, God-send.blight,v.blast;ruin,frustrate, fowart.blind,a.unseeing, sightless, purblind;oblivious, undiscriminating,inconsiderate,unmindful; unintelligible, illegible;obscure,intricate, involved.blind,n.shade,curtain,screen; blinder, blinker;subterfuge, pretext,ruse,stratagem,pretense, feintsophistry.blind alley.cul-de-sac,impasse.blind gut.cæcum.blinding,a.obscuring.blindness,n.sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness; amaurosis.blink,v.wink; connive at,disregard,overlook.bliss,n.felicity, transport,rapture, beatitude,happiness, ecstasy.blissful,a.felicitous, ecstatic,rapturous, beatific.blister,n.vesicle, pustule, pustulation, bleb; vesicatory, vesicant, epispastic, pustulant.--v.vesicate, pustulate.blistering,a.vesicatory, epispastic, pustulant.--n.vesication, pustulation.bloat,v.inflate, distend.bloated,a.distended, turgid, intumescent, tumefied.bloating,n.dilatation, intumescence, turgidity.block,v.obstruct, blockade.--n.obstruction,obstacle,barrier.blockhead,n.dolt,dunce,simpleton, ninny,numskull.blood,n.lifeblood;gore.Associated words: hematology, hemorrhage, hemal, hematic,plethora, anæmia, sanguification, sanguify,clot, corpuscle, styptic, hematosis, sanguiferous, hematin, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinivorous, hematophobia, hyperæmia.blood,n.blade,spark.bloodhound,n.sleuthhound.bloodless,a.exsanguineous, exsanguious, anæmic.bloodletting,n.venesection,bleeding, phlebotomy.blood of the gods.ichor.blood poisoning.toxæmia, septicæmia.bloodshed,n.carnage,massacre,slaughter, bloodshedding.bloodsucker,n.leech, sanguisuge; (Slang)extortioner;vampire.bloodthirsty,a.sanguinary, truculent,ferocious,cruel.blood vessel.artery;vein; capillary.Associated words: angiology, angiography, angiotomy, intrafusion, embolism, embolus, thrombosis, thrombolism, rete, hillus, endothelium, epithelium.bloody,a.gory,sanguinary, exsanguined, blood-stained.bloom,n.blossom,blow; prime,vigor, heyday,flush;fuzz,down.blossom,n.flower, florescence, inflorescence, efflorescence,bloom,blow, anthesis.--v.bloom,blow.blot,n.stain,blemish, smutch,smooch,reproach;erasure,obliteration.blot,v.stain,spot,blur,blemish, sully,disgrace,tarnish,dishonor;efface,erase, delete,obliterate, expunge;obscure,eclipse.blotch,n.eruption, blain, bulla, pustule, bleb;splotch, smutch,blot.blow,n.blossom,bloom; whack,knock, thwack,rap, thump,assault, stroke; buffet,calamity,disaster,reverse,misfortune.blow,v.blossom,bloom;pant, puff,gasp;spout;inflate, puff up, distend;explode,shatter; (Colloq.)boast,brag,bluster,vaunt, gasconade;rant,scold,censure.blower,n.(Slang)braggart,boaster, vaunter.blowhole,n.spiracle.blow out.extinguish.blow-out,n.(Colloq.) jollification,celebration,feast, merry-making.blowpipe analysis.Associated word: pyritology.blue,a.azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored;livid, ecchymosed;rigorous,severe; (Colloq.)melancholy,downhearted,depressed,despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen,gloomy, (Colloq.)gloomy, inauspicious,dismal, depressing; (Colloq.) pedantic, literary.blue,n.azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean; cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyanin.blue jaundice.cyanopathy, cyanosis.blues,n. pl.(Colloq.)despondency,melancholy, dismals, vapors,depression, blue devils, hypochondria,dumps, megrims.bluff,a.abrupt,unceremonious, brusque;gruff,surly; precipitous,steep,abrupt.bluff,v.(Colloq.)frighten,deter, intimidate.blunder,n.bull,error,mistake,impropriety,slip,solecism,faux pas.blundering,a.bungling,awkward,stupid, floundering.blunt,a.dull, obtuse;abrupt, brusque,unceremonious,uncivil, ungracious,discourteous;stupid,stolid.blunt,v.dull,deaden,stupefy; assuage,alleviate,mitigate.blur,v.dim,bedim,obscure; sully,blemish; mackle, macule.blur,n.blot, indistinctness; mackle, macule.blurred,a.indistinct,obscure,dim, bedimmed, sullied.blurt,v.ejaculate.blushing,n.blush, erubescence.bluster,v.swagger,storm,rage, gasconade, roister.bluster,n.swaggering, gasconade,boasting;wind,storm.blusterer,n.swaggerer,braggart, rodomont, roisterer, vaunter.blustering,a.stormy,windy,tempestuous;swaggering,bullying,boastful, roistering.boar,n.malehog; barrow (castrated); hogget (young boar).boast,v.brag,vaunt,vapor, gasconade.Antonyms:belittle,decry,disparage.boaster,n.braggart, vaunter,braggadocio, gascon, rodomont,blusterer, fanfaron, drawcansir.boastful,a.bragging, vaunting,vainglorious, thrasonical,cockahoop,braggart, jactitatious.boasting,n.bragging, gasconade, vaporing, fanfaronade, rodomontade, blague,bravado,blustering, jactitation, vaunting.Antonyms:disparagement, depreciation.boat,n.watercraft,launch, rowboat,canoe, gondola, punt, yacht, yawl, scull,cock,dugout,smack, pirogue, trawler, sloop, praam, coracle, pontoon, bateau, wherry, pinnace, scow, banca, transport, dory, galley, cruiser,ship, barge,bark, brig, bucentaur, skiff, caique, drogher, schooner, cockleshell,vessel,tug, towboat, tow,cog, wangan, ferry-boat, dinghey, argosy, oomiac, junk, longboat, catboat, felucca, cutter, frigate, xebec, tartan, unaboat, moses,raft, catamaran, sampan, lifeboat, caravel, trekschuit, masoola, argo, coggle.Associated words: davits,oar,helm,stern,pilot,rudder, flotilla, navy, navigation,fleet.beatable,a.navigable.boat races.regatta.boat-shaped,a.navicular, scaphoid, cymbiform, naviform.bob,n.pendant,float.bobtailed,a.curtailed.bode,v.forebode,foreshadow,augur,presage,betoken,portend.bodiless,a.incorporeal, disembodied.bodilessness,n.incorporeality, disembodiment.bodily,a.physical,corporal, corporeal.boding,a.ominous,portentous.boding,n.omen,sign, prognostic,foreboding,augury, auspice, portent.bodkin,n.stiletto, eyeleteer;tape needle.body,n.the physical person; torso,trunk; physique;bulk,mass; axis, centrum; individual, person,creature;system, code; consistency, substance; hulk; cuerpo.Associated words: physiology,anatomy, bicorporal, embody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment,manikin, corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic.body servant.valet, squire.body snatcher.resurrectionist,ghoul.bodyguard,n.lifeguard,garde du corps,retinue.bog,n.quagmire,marsh,swamp, fen,morass,slough.boggle,v.hesitate,stickle,falter; bungle.bogus,a.(Colloq.)spurious,counterfeit, fictitious,sham,fraudulent, forged,mock,false, supposititious.bogy,n.bugaboo,bugbear, bogle,specter.boil,n.furuncle.Associated word: furuncular.boil,v.seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n.boiling.boil away.evaporate.boiling,a.seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering.boiling,n.ebullition, coction,effervescence,seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience.boisterous,a.noisy,tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish,unrestrained,rude.bold,a.daring, intrepid,brave;forward,immodest,rude, hoidenish, brazen,saucy,insolent, unabashed,audacious,pert,shameless, malapert;conspicuous,prominent,salient;steep,abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous,jagged.Antonyms:modest,bashful,diffident,coy,shy,timid,retiring.bold-faced,a.impudent,brazen-faced,insolent.boldness,n.temerity,impudence, presumption, effrontery, impertinence,nerve.

binding,n.ligature, ligsation, astriction, constrictionbandage;obligation, reestraint,restriction; galloon swaddling.

binding,a.astringent, astrictive;obligatory,valid.Antonyms:optional, elective.

bird,n.(young) fledgeling, nestling; (one year old) annotine;squab;rara avris(rare bird).

bird-catcher,n.fowler.

bird-catching,n.fowling, birding.

birds,n. pl.Aves; Avifauma.Associated words: ornithology, ornithologist, ornithological, ornithotomy, ornithography, ornithoid, ornitholite, ornithon, ornithophilous,game, ornithic, aviary, avicular, aviculture, covey, neossology paleornithollogy, taxidermy, taxidermist, preen, rookery, cote, hutch,coop,cage, avian, poult, auspice, ariel,mute, Mallophaga.

birr,n.whirring.

birth n.nativity;origin,beginning, nascency, genesis; extraction, lineage; (new birth) regeneration, renaissance, regenesis, palingenesis.Associated words: natal,native, pre-natal, post-natal, ante-natal,abortion, congenital, connate, connascent, connascence, horoscope,genial, genethliac, genethlialogy, genethliacs, sooterkin, uniparous, biparous, pluriparous, viable, viability, primiparous, natality.

birthday poem.genethliac.

birthmark,n.nævus.

birthright,n.inheritance.

bisexual,a.hermaphrodite.

bishop,n.diocesan, prelate; suffragan, coadjutor, metropolitan.Associated words: episcopal, episcopacy, bishopdom, episcopicide, crosier, chimere, episcopate, rochet, gremial.

bishopric,n.diocese,see.

bit,n.morsel,fragment,scrap, crumb;mite, ace,scintilla,particle,whit,iota, tittle,grain,atom,jot,molecule,speck,mote.

bit by bit.piecemeal.

bitch,n.slut;whore.

bite,v.champ, nibble,chew;sting,smart, tingle; take hold of, adhere;nip,blight,blast.

bite,n.mouthful; wheal.

biting,a.stinging,sharp,cutting,sarcastic,caustic, scathing,bitter,satirical,pungent,piquant;nipping,blasting; erosive,corrosive,acrid, mordant.

bitter,a.acrid, acerb;poignant,intense;calamitous,distressing,virulent,acrimonious;implacable.

bitterness,n.acridity, acerbity;gall, wormwood; poignancy, intensity,severity;rancor,malice, malignity, implacableness.

bizarre,a.fantastic,whimsical,grotesque.

blab,n.babbler, blabber,telltale.--v.tell,tattle.

black,a.sable, ebon,inky, Stygian, Cimmerian,lowering,murky; Ethiopian, Papuan,negro.

black,n.stain,smooch; Ethiopian, Papuan,negro.

black and blue.livid, ecchymosed.

black and blue spot.ecchymosis, suggillation.

black art.necromancy,conjuration,magic,sorcery.

blacken,v.darken, denigrate; begrime, besmirch,tarnish, discolor;defame, malign.

blackguard,n.scoundrel,rascal,villain,ruffian.

blackguard,a.vicious,scurrilous, opprobrious,foul.

blackguardism,n.ruffianism,scoundrelism,rascality; scurrility,billingsgate.

blackhearted,a.villainous,abandoned,reprobate, diabolical,base, depraved.

black lead.graphite, plumbago.

blackleg,n.(Colloq.)gambler, gamester (disreputable).

blackness,n.black, nigritude;atrocity, heinousness, depravity.

Black Sea.Euxine.

blacksmith,n.ironsmith, farrier,horseshoer.Associated words: Hephestian, anvil.

blacksmith's shop.smithy, smithery, farriery, stithy,forge.

black vomit.melenemesis.

bladder,n.Associated words: cystitis, cystic, cystocele, cystose, cystolith, cystotomy, lithotomy, lithotomist, endoscope, endoscopy, prostate, catheter, litholysis, utricular, lithotrity, lithotome, utriculate.

blade,n.leaf (of a plant), spire (of grass);buck,gallant,dandy.

blamable,a.culpable,censurable, reprehensible,blameworthy.

blame,v.censure,reproach.

blame,n.censure,reproach, reprehension,condemnation,stricture, animadversion,reproof; culpability, reprehensibility,demerit, wrongdoing,fault.

blameless,a.guiltless, irreprehensible, inculpable, unimpeachable,faultless, irreproachable.

blameworthy,a.censurable,blamable.

bland,a.suave, mollifying,affable, complaisant;soothing, emollient, demulsive, assuasive.

blandish,v.flatter,cajole, caress.

blandishment,n.cajolery,wheedling, caresses, blandiloquence.

blank,a.void,empty,unfilled; expressionless,vacant:confounded, nonplused, astounded; unmitigated,absolute,downright.

blarney,n.(Colloq.) blandiloquence,palaver,blandishment,cajolery,flattery.

blamey,v.flatter,cajole,palaver,wheedle,blandish.

blasé,a.surfeited (with pleasure), sated,palled.

blasphemy,n.sacrilege, calumny, profanity.

blast,n.squall, gust;peal, blare, clang;explosion,discharge.

blast,v.blight,destroy;frustrate,ruin;explode,rend,open.

blasting,n.blighting, carbunculation;frustration,ruination.

blat,v.bleat.

blatant,a.brawling,clamorous,obstreperous, bawling braying.

blaze,n.flame.

blazing,a.flaming, ablaze, aflame.Antonym: smoldering.

blazon,v.emblazon;publish,display,exhibit.

bleach,v.etiolate,whiten, blanch.

bleaching,n.blanching,whitening, etiolation.

bleak,a.windswept,cheerless,raw,penetrating,desolate,dreary.

bleared,a.rheumy.

blearedness,n.lippitude, glama, epiphora.

bleed,v.exude.

bleeding,n.hemorrhage; phlebotomy,bloodletting, venesection.Associated words: tourniquet, garrot, styptic.

blemish,v.deface,mar,disfigure, sully.

blemish,n.defect,fault,imperfection,eyesore,disfigurement,blot.

blench,v.flinch,recoil, shrink from.

blend,v.intermingle,fuse,merge,combine,mix, assimilate.

blend,n.mixture, merging,fusion, assimilation, synthesis.

blessing,n.benediction, benison, beatitude;boon, God-send.

blight,v.blast;ruin,frustrate, fowart.

blind,a.unseeing, sightless, purblind;oblivious, undiscriminating,inconsiderate,unmindful; unintelligible, illegible;obscure,intricate, involved.

blind,n.shade,curtain,screen; blinder, blinker;subterfuge, pretext,ruse,stratagem,pretense, feintsophistry.

blind alley.cul-de-sac,impasse.

blind gut.cæcum.

blinding,a.obscuring.

blindness,n.sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness; amaurosis.

blink,v.wink; connive at,disregard,overlook.

bliss,n.felicity, transport,rapture, beatitude,happiness, ecstasy.

blissful,a.felicitous, ecstatic,rapturous, beatific.

blister,n.vesicle, pustule, pustulation, bleb; vesicatory, vesicant, epispastic, pustulant.--v.vesicate, pustulate.

blistering,a.vesicatory, epispastic, pustulant.--n.vesication, pustulation.

bloat,v.inflate, distend.

bloated,a.distended, turgid, intumescent, tumefied.

bloating,n.dilatation, intumescence, turgidity.

block,v.obstruct, blockade.--n.obstruction,obstacle,barrier.

blockhead,n.dolt,dunce,simpleton, ninny,numskull.

blood,n.lifeblood;gore.Associated words: hematology, hemorrhage, hemal, hematic,plethora, anæmia, sanguification, sanguify,clot, corpuscle, styptic, hematosis, sanguiferous, hematin, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinivorous, hematophobia, hyperæmia.

blood,n.blade,spark.

bloodhound,n.sleuthhound.

bloodless,a.exsanguineous, exsanguious, anæmic.

bloodletting,n.venesection,bleeding, phlebotomy.

blood of the gods.ichor.

blood poisoning.toxæmia, septicæmia.

bloodshed,n.carnage,massacre,slaughter, bloodshedding.

bloodsucker,n.leech, sanguisuge; (Slang)extortioner;vampire.

bloodthirsty,a.sanguinary, truculent,ferocious,cruel.

blood vessel.artery;vein; capillary.Associated words: angiology, angiography, angiotomy, intrafusion, embolism, embolus, thrombosis, thrombolism, rete, hillus, endothelium, epithelium.

bloody,a.gory,sanguinary, exsanguined, blood-stained.

bloom,n.blossom,blow; prime,vigor, heyday,flush;fuzz,down.

blossom,n.flower, florescence, inflorescence, efflorescence,bloom,blow, anthesis.--v.bloom,blow.

blot,n.stain,blemish, smutch,smooch,reproach;erasure,obliteration.

blot,v.stain,spot,blur,blemish, sully,disgrace,tarnish,dishonor;efface,erase, delete,obliterate, expunge;obscure,eclipse.

blotch,n.eruption, blain, bulla, pustule, bleb;splotch, smutch,blot.

blow,n.blossom,bloom; whack,knock, thwack,rap, thump,assault, stroke; buffet,calamity,disaster,reverse,misfortune.

blow,v.blossom,bloom;pant, puff,gasp;spout;inflate, puff up, distend;explode,shatter; (Colloq.)boast,brag,bluster,vaunt, gasconade;rant,scold,censure.

blower,n.(Slang)braggart,boaster, vaunter.

blowhole,n.spiracle.

blow out.extinguish.

blow-out,n.(Colloq.) jollification,celebration,feast, merry-making.

blowpipe analysis.Associated word: pyritology.

blue,a.azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored;livid, ecchymosed;rigorous,severe; (Colloq.)melancholy,downhearted,depressed,despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen,gloomy, (Colloq.)gloomy, inauspicious,dismal, depressing; (Colloq.) pedantic, literary.

blue,n.azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean; cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyanin.

blue jaundice.cyanopathy, cyanosis.

blues,n. pl.(Colloq.)despondency,melancholy, dismals, vapors,depression, blue devils, hypochondria,dumps, megrims.

bluff,a.abrupt,unceremonious, brusque;gruff,surly; precipitous,steep,abrupt.

bluff,v.(Colloq.)frighten,deter, intimidate.

blunder,n.bull,error,mistake,impropriety,slip,solecism,faux pas.

blundering,a.bungling,awkward,stupid, floundering.

blunt,a.dull, obtuse;abrupt, brusque,unceremonious,uncivil, ungracious,discourteous;stupid,stolid.

blunt,v.dull,deaden,stupefy; assuage,alleviate,mitigate.

blur,v.dim,bedim,obscure; sully,blemish; mackle, macule.

blur,n.blot, indistinctness; mackle, macule.

blurred,a.indistinct,obscure,dim, bedimmed, sullied.

blurt,v.ejaculate.

blushing,n.blush, erubescence.

bluster,v.swagger,storm,rage, gasconade, roister.

bluster,n.swaggering, gasconade,boasting;wind,storm.

blusterer,n.swaggerer,braggart, rodomont, roisterer, vaunter.

blustering,a.stormy,windy,tempestuous;swaggering,bullying,boastful, roistering.

boar,n.malehog; barrow (castrated); hogget (young boar).

boast,v.brag,vaunt,vapor, gasconade.Antonyms:belittle,decry,disparage.

boaster,n.braggart, vaunter,braggadocio, gascon, rodomont,blusterer, fanfaron, drawcansir.

boastful,a.bragging, vaunting,vainglorious, thrasonical,cockahoop,braggart, jactitatious.

boasting,n.bragging, gasconade, vaporing, fanfaronade, rodomontade, blague,bravado,blustering, jactitation, vaunting.Antonyms:disparagement, depreciation.

boat,n.watercraft,launch, rowboat,canoe, gondola, punt, yacht, yawl, scull,cock,dugout,smack, pirogue, trawler, sloop, praam, coracle, pontoon, bateau, wherry, pinnace, scow, banca, transport, dory, galley, cruiser,ship, barge,bark, brig, bucentaur, skiff, caique, drogher, schooner, cockleshell,vessel,tug, towboat, tow,cog, wangan, ferry-boat, dinghey, argosy, oomiac, junk, longboat, catboat, felucca, cutter, frigate, xebec, tartan, unaboat, moses,raft, catamaran, sampan, lifeboat, caravel, trekschuit, masoola, argo, coggle.Associated words: davits,oar,helm,stern,pilot,rudder, flotilla, navy, navigation,fleet.

beatable,a.navigable.

boat races.regatta.

boat-shaped,a.navicular, scaphoid, cymbiform, naviform.

bob,n.pendant,float.

bobtailed,a.curtailed.

bode,v.forebode,foreshadow,augur,presage,betoken,portend.

bodiless,a.incorporeal, disembodied.

bodilessness,n.incorporeality, disembodiment.

bodily,a.physical,corporal, corporeal.

boding,a.ominous,portentous.

boding,n.omen,sign, prognostic,foreboding,augury, auspice, portent.

bodkin,n.stiletto, eyeleteer;tape needle.

body,n.the physical person; torso,trunk; physique;bulk,mass; axis, centrum; individual, person,creature;system, code; consistency, substance; hulk; cuerpo.Associated words: physiology,anatomy, bicorporal, embody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment,manikin, corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic.

body servant.valet, squire.

body snatcher.resurrectionist,ghoul.

bodyguard,n.lifeguard,garde du corps,retinue.

bog,n.quagmire,marsh,swamp, fen,morass,slough.

boggle,v.hesitate,stickle,falter; bungle.

bogus,a.(Colloq.)spurious,counterfeit, fictitious,sham,fraudulent, forged,mock,false, supposititious.

bogy,n.bugaboo,bugbear, bogle,specter.

boil,n.furuncle.Associated word: furuncular.

boil,v.seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n.boiling.

boil away.evaporate.

boiling,a.seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering.

boiling,n.ebullition, coction,effervescence,seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience.

boisterous,a.noisy,tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish,unrestrained,rude.

bold,a.daring, intrepid,brave;forward,immodest,rude, hoidenish, brazen,saucy,insolent, unabashed,audacious,pert,shameless, malapert;conspicuous,prominent,salient;steep,abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous,jagged.Antonyms:modest,bashful,diffident,coy,shy,timid,retiring.

bold-faced,a.impudent,brazen-faced,insolent.

boldness,n.temerity,impudence, presumption, effrontery, impertinence,nerve.


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