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Bry¶oÏny (?), n. [L. bryonia, Gr. ?, fr. ? to swell, esp. of plants.] (Bot.) The commonname of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.ØBryÏoph¶yÏta (?), n. pl. See Cryptogamia.ØBry·oÏzo¶a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? moss + ? animal.] (Zo”l.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; Ð called also Polyzoa.µ They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, and Pterobranchia. See Cyclostoma, Chilostoma, and Phylactolema.Bry·oÏzo¶an (?), a. (Zo”l.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa. Ð n. One of the Bryozoa.ØBry·oÏzo¶um (?), n. [NL. See Bryozoa.] (Zo”l.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zoÒcia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the otherzooids (Avicularia, OÒcia, etc.).ØBu·anÏsu¶ah (?), n. [Native name.] (Zo”l.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon prim‘vus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domsetic dog.ØBu¶at (?), n. [Scot., of uncertain origin.] A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.]Sir W.Scott.Bub (?), n. Strong malt liquor. [Cant]Prior.Bub, n. [Cf. 2d Bubby.] A young brother; a little boy; Ð a familiar term of address of a small boy.Bub, v.t. [Abbrev. from Bubble.] To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.]Sackville.Bu¶baÏle (?), n. [Cf. F. bubale. See Buffalo, n.] (Zo”l.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.Bu¶baÏline (?), a. (Zo”l.) Resembling a buffalo.Bubaline antelope (Zo”l.), the bubale.Bub¶ble (?), n. [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. Blob, n.] 1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow,Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream.Shak.2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles risingÿin champagne or a‰rated waters.3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.6. Anything that wants firmnessÿor solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.Then a soldier …Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth.Shak.7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] ½Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.¸Prior.Bub¶ble, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bubbled (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bubbling (?).] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble.ÿSee Bubble, n.] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.The milk that bubbled in the pail.Tennyson.2. To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.Pope.3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.At mine earBubbled the nightingale and heeded not.Tennyson.Bub¶bler, v.t. To cheat; to deceive.She has bubbled him out of his youth.Addison.The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.Sterne.Bub¶bler (?), n. 1. One who cheats.All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc.Pope.2. (Zo”l.) A fish of the Ohio river; Ð so called from the noise it makes.Bub¶ble shell· (?). (Zo”l.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.Bub¶bling Jock· (?) (Zo”l.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; Ð so called in allusion to its notes.Bub¶bly (?), a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.Nash.Bub¶by (?), n. [Cf. Prov. G. bbbi, or It. poppa, Pr. popa, OF. poupe, a woman's breast.] A woman's breast. [Low]Bub¶by, n. [A corruption of brother.] Bub; Ð a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.Bu¶bo (?), n.; pl. Buboes (?). [LL. buboÿthe groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. ?.] (Med.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.BuÏbon¶ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.BuÏbon¶oÏcele (?), n. [Gr. ? groin + ? tumor: cf. F. bubonocŠle.] (Med.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.Bu¶buÏkle (?), n. A red pimple. [R.]Shak.Buc¶cal (?), a. [L. bucca cheek: cf. F. buccal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.Buc·caÏneer¶ (?), n. [F. boucanier, fr. boucanerÿto smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking placeÿfor meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.] A robber upon the sea; a pirate; Ð a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]µ Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.Buc·caÏneer¶, v.i. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.Buc·caÏneer¶ish, a. Like a buccaneer; piratical.Buc¶ciÏnal (?), a. [L. bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.] Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.ØBuc·ciÏna¶tor (?), n. [L., a trumpeter, fr. bucinare to sound the trumpet.] (Anat.) A muscle of the cheek; Ð so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.Buc¶ciÏnoid (?), a. [Buccinum + Ïoid.] (Zo”l.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinid‘, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.ØBuc¶ciÏnum (?), n. [L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.] (Zo”l.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).BuÏcen¶taur (?), n. [Gr. ?; ox + ? centaur.] 1. A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.2. [It. bucentoro.] The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.ØBu¶ceÏros (?), n. [Gr. ? horned like an ox; ? ox + ? horn.] (Zo”l.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.Buch¶olÏzite (?), n. [So called from Bucholz, a German chemist.] (Min.) Same as Fibrolite.Bu¶chu (?), n. (Bot.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil dlands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.Buck (?), n. [Akin to LG. bke, Dan. byg, Sw. byk, G. bauche: cf. It. bucato, Prov. Sp. bugada, F. bu‚e.] 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. [Obs.]Shak.Buck, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bucked (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bucking.] [OE. bouken; akin to LG. bken, Dan. byge, Sw. byka, G. bauchen, beuchen; cf. OF. buer. Cf. the preceding noun.] 1. To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; Ð a process in bleaching.2. TO wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.3. (Mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.Buck, n. [OE. buk, bucke, AS. bucca, bua, heÐgoat; akin to D. bok, OHG. pocch, G. bock, Ir. boc, W. bwch, Corn. byk; cf. Zend b?za, Skr. bukka. û256. Cf. Butcher, n.] 1. The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.µ A male fallow deer is called a fawn in his first year; a pricket in his second; a sorel in his third; a sore in his fourth; a buck of the first head in his fifth; and a great buck in his sixth. The female of the fallow deer is termed a doe. The male of the red deer is termed a stag or hart and not a buck, and the female is called a hind.Brande & C.2. A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.The leading bucks of the day.Thackeray.3. A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]µ The word buck is much used in composition for the names of antelopes; as, bush buck, spring buck.Blue buck. See under Blue. Ð Water buck, a South African variety of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus). See Illust. of Antelope.Buck (?), v.i. 1. To copulate, as bucks and does.2. To springÿwith quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; Ð said of a vicious horse or mule.Buck, v.t. 1. (Mil.) To subjectÿto a mode of punishment which consists in tyingÿthe wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.2. To throw by bucking. See Buck, v.i., 2.The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.W.E.Norris.Buck, n. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.Buck, n. [See Beech, n.] The beech tree. [Scot.]Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree.Johnson.Buck¶Ðbas·ket (?), n. [See 1st Buck.] A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.Shak.Buck¶ bean· (?). (Bot.) A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; Ð called also bog bean.Buck¶board· (?), n. A fourÐwheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; Ð called also buck wagon.Buck¶er (?), n. (Mining) 1. One who bucks ore.2. A broadÐheaded hammer used in bucking ore.Buck¶er, n. A horse or mule that bucks.Buck¶et (?), n. [OE. boket; cf. AS. buc pitcher, or Corn. buket tub.] 1. A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.The old oaken bucket, the ironÐbound bucket,The mossÐcovered bucket, which hung in the well.Wordsworth.2. A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.3. (Mach.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.4. The valved piston of a lifting pump.Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. Ð To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]Buck¶et shop· (?). An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]Buck¶etÏy (?), n. [A corruption of buckwheat.] Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.Buchanan.Buck¶eye· (?), n. 1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (’sculus) as the horse chestnut.The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is ’sculus glabra. Ð Red buckeye is ’. Pavia. Ð Small buckeye is ’. paviflora. Ð Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is ’. flava.2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.]Buckeye State, Ohio; Ð so called because buckeye trees abound there.Buck¶Ðeyed· (?), a. Having bad or speckled eyes. ½A buckÐeyed horse.¸James White.Buck¶hound· (?), n. A hound for hunting deer.Master of the buckhounds, an officer in the royal house hold. [Eng.]Buck¶ie (?), n. (Zo”l.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.]Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]Buck¶ing, n. 1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.Tomlinson.2. A washing.3. The processÿof breaking up or pulverizing ores.Bucking iron (Mining), a broadÐfaced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores. Ð Bucking kier (Manuf.), a large circular boiler, or kier, used in bleaching. Ð Bucking stool, a washing block.Buck¶ish, a. Dandified; foppish.Buc¶kle (?), n. [OE. bocleÿbuckle, boss of a shield, OF. bocle, F. boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a little cheek or mouth, dim. of bucca cheek; this boss or knob resembling a cheek.] 1. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.2. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.Knight.3. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face.W.Irving.Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year.Addison.4. A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.]'Gainst nature armed by gravity,His features too in buckle see.Churchill.Buc¶kle (?), v.t. [imp. & p.p. Buckled (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Buckling.] [OE. boclen, F. boucler. See Buckle, n.] 1. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.2. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.3. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; Ð generally used reflexively<— buckle down —>.Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.Fuller.4. To join in marriage. [Scot.]Sir W.Scott.
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Buc¶kle (?), v.i. 1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.Pepys.2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. [Obs.]The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.Pepys.4. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.Latimer.In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.Shak.To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal.To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto.Barrow.Before buckling to my winter's work.J.D.Forbes.Buc¶kler (?), n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See Buckle, n.] 1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.µ In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows.2. (Zo”l.) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.3. (Naut.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a halfÐport, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.Blind bucklerÿ(Naut.), a solid buckler. Ð Buckler mustardÿ(Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. Ð Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. Ð Riding bucklerÿ(Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.Buc¶kler, v.t. To shield; to defend. [Obs.]Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?Shak.Buc¶klerÐhead·ed (?), a. Having a head like a buckler.Buc¶kling (?), a. Wavy; curling, as hair.Latham.Buck¶ra (?), n. [In the languageÿof the Calabar coast, buckra means ½demon, a powerful and superior being.¸ J.L.Wilson.] A white man; Ð a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.Buck¶ra, a. White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.Buck¶ram (?), n. [OE. bokeram, bougeren, OF. boqueran, F. bougran, MHG. buckeram, LL. buchiranus, boquerannus, fr. MHG. boc, G. bock, goat (as being made of goat's hair), or fr. F. bouracan, by transposing the letter r. See Buck, Barracan.] 1. A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.µ Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearingÿapparel, etc.Beck (Draper's Dict.).2. (Bot.) A plant. See Ramson.Dr. Prior.Buck¶ram, a. 1. Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.2. Stiff; precise. ½Buckram dames.¸Brooke.Buck¶ram, v.t. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.Cowper.Buck's¶Ðhorn· (?), n. (Bot.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.Buck¶shot· (?), n. A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.Buck¶skin· (?), n. 1. The skin of a buck.2. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.3. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought,An' did the buckskins claw, man.Burns.4. pl. Breeches made of buckskin.I have alluded to his buckskin.Thackeray.Buck¶stall· (?), n. A toil or net to take deer.Buck¶thorn· (?), n. (Bot.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippopha‰.Buck¶tooth· (?), n. Any tooth that juts out.When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded.Thackeray.Buck¶wheat· (?), n. [Buck a beech tree + wheat; akin to D. boekweit, G. buchweizen.] 1. (Bot.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.BuÏcol¶ic (?), a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd, herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kalÿto drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.BuÏcol¶ic, n. [L. Bucolic“n po‰ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.Dryden.BuÏcol¶icÏal (?), a. Bucolic.ØBuÏcra¶niÏum (?), n.; pl. L. Bucrania (?). [L., fr. Gr. ? ox head.] A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.Bud (?), n. [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dogÐrose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See Button.] 1. (Bot.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branchÿor flower.2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.Bud moth (Zo”l.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellanaÿand Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.Bud, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Budded; p.pr. & vb.n. Budding.] 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness,ÿor growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.Shak.Syn. - To sprout; germinate; blossom.Bud, v.t. To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other.Farm. Dict.Bud¶dha (?), n. [Skr. buddha wise, sage, fr. budhÿto know.] The title of an incarnation of selfÐabnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.Bud¶dhism (?), n. The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, ½the awakened or enlightened,¸ in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvƒna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.Bud¶dhist (?), n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.Bud¶dhist, a. Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.BudÏdhis¶tic (?), a. Same as Buddhist, a.Bud¶ding (?), n. 1. The act or process of producing buds.2. (Biol.) A processÿof asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.3. The act or processÿof ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.Bud¶dle (?), n. [Prov. E., to cleanse ore, also a vessel for this purpose; cf. G. buttelnÿto shake.] (Mining) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of rynning water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.Bud¶dle, v.i. (Mining) To wash ore in a buddle.Bude¶ burn·er (?). [See Bude light.] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burnes (the inner rising aboveÿthe outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.Bude¶ light· (?). [From Bude, in Cornwall, the residence of Sir G.Gurney, the inventor.] A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.Budge (?), v.i. [imp. & p.p. Budged (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Budging.] [F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v.i.] To move off; to stir; to walk away.I'll not budge an inch, boy.Shak.The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budgeFrom rascals worse than they.Shak.Budge, a. [See Budge, v.] Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.]South.Budge, n. [OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. Budge, n.] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; Ð used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.Budge, a. 1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. ½Budge gowns.¸Milton.2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics.Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.Milton.Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. Ð Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copperÐhooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn togetherÿwith strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.Budge¶ness (?), n. Sternness; severity. [Obs.]A Sara for goodness, a great Bellona for budgeness.Stanyhurst.Budg¶er (?), n. One who budges.Shak.Øbudg¶eÏrow (?), n. [Hindi bajr¾.] A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.Budg¶et (?), n. [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See Budge, n., and cf. Bouget.] 1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.Budg¶y, a. [From Budge, n.] Consisting of fur. [Obs.]Bud¶let (?), n. [Bud + Ïlet.] A little bud springing from a parent bud.We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another,ÿor the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.E.Darwin.Buff (?), n. [OE. buff, buffe, buff, buffalo, F. buffleÿbuffalo. See Buffalo.] 1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. ½A suit of buff.¸Shak.2. The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.A visage rough,Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.Dryden.3. A military coat, made of buff leather.Shak.4. (Med.)ÿThe grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.5. (Mech.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.6. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.]To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.Wright.Buff, a. 1. Made of buff leather.Goldsmith.2. Of the color of buff.Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. Ð Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. Ð Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.Buff, v.t. To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.Buff, v.t. [OF. bufer to cuff, buffet. See Buffet a blow.] To strike. [Obs.]B.Jonson.Buff, n. [See Buffet.] A buffet; a blow; Ð obsolete except in the phrase ½Blindman's buff.¸Nathless so sore a buff to him it lentThat made him reel.Spenser.Buff, a. [Of uncertain etymol.] Firm; sturdy.And for the good old cause stood buff,'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff.Hudibras.ØBuf¶fa (?), n.fem. (Mus.) [It. See Buffoon.] The comic actress in an opera. Ð a. Comic, farcical.Aria buffa, a droll or comic air. Ð Opera buffa, a comic opera. See Opera bouffe.Buf¶faÏlo (?), n.; pl. Buffaloes (?). [Sp. bufalo (cf. It. bufalo, F. buffle), fr. L. bubalus, bufalus, a kind of African stag or gazelle; also, the buffalo or wild ox, fr. Gr. ? buffalo, prob. fr. ? ox. See Cow the animal, and cf. Buff the color, and Bubale.] 1. (Zo”l.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originallyÿfrom India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.2. (Zo”l.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; Ð called also Cape buffalo.3. (Zo”l.) Any speciesÿof wild ox.4. (Zo”l.) The bison of North America.5. A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.6. (Zo”l.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.Buffalo berryÿ(Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri (Sherherdia argentea) with acid edible red berries. Ð Buffalo bird (Zo”l.), an African bird of the genus Buphaga, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites. Ð Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. Ð Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] Ð Buffalo cloverÿ(Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. Ð Buffalo cod (Zo”l.), a large, edible, marine fish (Ophiodon elongatus) of the northern Pacific coast; Ð called also blue cod, and cultus cod. Ð Buffalo fish (Zo”l.), one of several large freshÐwater fishes of the family Catostomid‘, of the Mississippi valley. The redÐmouthed or brown (Ictiobus bubalus), the bigÐmouthed or black (Bubalichthys urus), and the smallÐmouthed (B. altus), are among the more important species used as food. Ð Buffalo fly, or Buffalo gnat (Zo”l.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Simulium, allied to the black fly of the North. It is often extremely abundant in the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. Ð Buffalo grassÿ(Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchlo‰ dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed. [U.S.] Ð Buffalo nut (Bot.), the oily and drupelike fruit of an American shrub (Pyrularia oleifera); also, the shrub itself; oilnut. Ð Buffalo robe, the skin of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; Ð much used as a lap robe in sleighs.
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Buf¶fel duck (?). [See Buffalo.] (Zo”l.) A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.Buff¶er (?), n. [Prop a striker. See Buffet a blow.] 1. (Mech.) (a) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. (b) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which recieves the blow; Ð sometimes called buffing apparatus.2. One who polishes with a buff.3. A wheel for buffing; a buff.4. A goodÐhumored, slowÐwitted fellow; Ð usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.]Dickens.Buff¶erÏhead· (?), n. The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.BufÏfet¶ (?), n. [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaningÿto puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.] 1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.Not when a gilt buffet's reflected prideTurns you from sound philosophy aside.Pope.2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.Buf¶fet (?), n. [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v.i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon] 1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.When on his cheek a buffet fell.Sir W.Scott.2. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay.Burke.Fortune's buffets and rewards.Shak.3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.Go fetch us a light buffet.Townely Myst.Buf¶fet, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Buffeted; p.pr. & vb.n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.] 1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.They spit in his face and buffeted him.Matt.xxvi.67.2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.Broome.You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.W.Black.3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.Buf¶fet, v.i. 1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.Shak.2. To make one's way by blows or struggling.Strove to buffet to land in vain.Tennyson.Buf¶fetÏer (?), n. One who buffets; a boxer.Jonson.Buf¶fetÏing, n. 1. A striking with the hand.2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but … fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm.Wirt.Buf¶fin (?), n. [So called from resembling buff ?eather.] A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns. [Obs.]Buff¶ing ap·paÏra¶tus (?). See Buffer, 1.Buf¶fle (?), n. [OE., from F. buffle. See Buffalo.] The buffalo. [Obs.]Sir T.Herbert.Buf¶fle, v.i. To puzzle; to be at a loss. [Obs.]Swift.Buf¶fleÏhead· (?), n. [Buffle + head.] 1. One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.]What makes you stare so, bufflehead?Plautus (trans. 1694).2. (Zo”l.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.Buf¶fleÐhead·ed, a. Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.]So fell this buffleÐheaded giant.Gayton.ØBuf¶fo (?), n.masc. [It. See Buffoon.] (Mus.) The comic actor in an opera.BufÏfoon¶ (?), n. [F. bouffon (cf. It. buffone, buffo, buffa, puff of wind, vanity, nonsense, trick), fr. bouffer to puff out, because the buffoons puffed out their cheeks for the amusement of the spectators. See Buffet a blow.] A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merryÐandrew.BufÏfoon¶ (?), a. Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon. ½Buffoon stories.¸Macaulay.To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances.Melmoth.BufÏfoon¶, v.i. To act the part of a buffoon. [R.]BufÏfoon¶, v.t. To treat with buffoonery.Glanwill.BufÏfoon¶erÏy (?), n.; pl. Buffooneries (?). [F. bouffonnerie.] The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a ½What makes you blush?¸Spectator.BufÏfoon¶ish, a. Like a buffoon; consisting in low?jests or gestures.Blair.BufÏfoon¶ism (?), n. The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.BufÏfoon¶ly, a. Low; vulgar. [R.]Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse.Goodman.Buff¶y (?), a. (Med.)ÿResembling, or characterized by, buff.Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearky colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual.Huxley.ØBu¶fo (?), n. [L. bufo a toad.] (Zo”l.) A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.Bu¶fonÏite (?), n. [L. bufo toad: cf. F. bufonite.] (Paleon.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the o”lite and chalk formations; toadstone; Ð so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.Bug (?), n. [OE. bugge, fr. W. bwg, bwgan, hobgoblin, scarecrow, bugbear. Cf. Bogey, Boggle.] 1. A bugbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.]Sir, spare your threats:The bug which you would fright me with I seek.Shak.2. (Zo”l.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.3. (Zo”l.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.4. (Zo”l.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.5. (Zo”l.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.µ According to present popular usage in England, and among housekeepers in America, bug, when not joined with some qualifying word, is used specifically for bedbug. As a general term it is used very loosely in America, and was formerly used still more loosely in England. ½God's rare workmanshipÿin the ant, the poorest bug that creeps.¸ Rogers (Naaman). ½This bug with gilded wings.¸ Pope.Bait bug. See under Bait. Ð Bug word, swaggering or threatening language. [Obs.]Beau. & Fl.Bug·aÏboo¶ (?), Bug¶bear· (?), n. [See Bug.] Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. ½Bugaboos to fright ye.¸Lloyd.But, to the world no bugbear is so greatAs want of figure and a small estate.Pope.The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray.S.B.Griffin.The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl.J.Burroughs.Syn. - Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow.Bug¶bane· (?), n. (Bot.) A perennial whiteÐflowered herb of the order Ranunculace‘ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.Bug¶bear· (?), n. Same as Bugaboo. Ð a. Causing needless fright.Locke.Bug¶bear·, v.t. To alarm with idle phantoms.Bug¶fish· (?), n. (Zo”l.) The menhaden. [U.S.]Bug¶ger (?), n. [F. bougre, fr. LL. Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of buggery were called heretics, because in the eyes of their adversaries there was nothing more heinous than heresy, and it was therefore thought that the origin of such a vice could only be owing to heretics.] 1. One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.2. A wretch; Ð sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]Bug¶gerÏy (?), n. [OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See Bugger.] Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.Bug¶giÏness (?), n. [From Buggy, a.] The state of being infested with bugs.Bug¶gy (?), a. [From Bug.] Infested or abounding with bugs.Bug¶gy, n.; pl. Buggies. 1. A light one horse twoÐwheeled vehicle. [Eng.]Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy.Beaconsfield.2. A light, fourÐwheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. [U.S.]Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver. Ð Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; Ð called also sulky plow.Bu¶gle (?), n. [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.] A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.E.Phillips.Bu¶gle, n. [See Bugle a wild ox.] 1. A horn used by hunters.2. (Mus.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; Ð called also the Kent bugle.Bu¶gle, n. [LL. bugulus a woman's ornament: cf. G. bgel a bent piece of metal or wood, fr. the same root as G. biegenÿto bend, E. bow to bend.] An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.Bu¶gle, a. [From Bugle a bead.] Jet black. ½Bugle eyeballs.¸Shak.Bu¶gle, n. [F. bugle; cf. It. bugola, L. bugillo.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.Yellow bugle, the Ajuga cham‘pitys.Bu¶gled (?), a. Ornamented with bugles.Bu¶gle horn· (?). 1. A bugle.One blast upon his bugle hornWere worth a thousand men.Sir W.Scott.2. A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.]And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine.Chaucer.Bu¶gler (?), n. One who plays on a bugle.Bu¶gleÏweed· (?), n. (Bot.) A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.Bu¶gloss (?), n.; pl. Buglosses (?). [F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. ? oxtongue ? ox + ? tongue.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbensÿand the Lycopsis arvensis. Ð Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.Bug¶wort· (?), n. (Bot.) Bugbane.Buhl (?), Buhl¶work (?), n. [From A.Ch.Boule, a French carver in wood.] Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]Buhl¶buhl (?), n. (Zo”l.) See Bulbul.Buhr¶stone· (?), n. [OE. bur a whetstone for scythes.] (Min.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]Build (?), v.t. [imp. & p.p. Built (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Building. The regular imp. & p.p. Builded is antiquated.] [OE. bulden, bilden, AS. byldanÿto build, fr. bold house; cf. Icel. bÓl farm, abode, Dan. bol small farm, OSw. bol, b”le, house, dwelling, fr. root of Icel. b?a to dwell; akin to E. be, bower, boor. û97.] 1. To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.Nor aught availed him nowTo have built in heaven high towers.Milton.2. To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.Shak.3. To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; Ð frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up.Acts xx.32.Syn. - To erect; construct; raise; found; frame.Build (?), v.i. 1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.Build, n. Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.Build¶er (?), n. One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it.Eng. Cyc.Build¶ing, n. 1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster.Bp. Hall.2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.The execution of works of architecture necessarily includes building; but building is frequently employed when the result is not architectural.Hosking.3. That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attireHave cost a mass of public treasury.Shak.Built (?), n. Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.]Dryden.Built, a. Formed; shaped; constructed; made; Ð often used in composition and preceded by the word denotingÿthe form; as, frigateÐbuilt, clipperÐbuilt, etc.Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built.Landor.Buke¶ mus¶lin (?). See Book muslin.ØBuk¶shish (?), n. See Backsheesh.ØBu¶lau (?), n. [Native name.] (Zo”l.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
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Bulb (?), n. [L. bulbus, Gr. ?: cf. F. bulbe.] 1. (Bot.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.2. (Anat.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. Ð Bulb of a hair, the ½root,¸ or part whence the hair originates. Ð Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. Ð Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth.3. An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.Tomlinson.Bulb, v.i. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.BulÏba¶ceous (?), a. [L. bulbaceus. See Bulb, n.] Bulbous.Jonson.Bulb¶ar (?), a. Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.Bulbed (?), a. Having a bulb; roundÐheaded.Bulb¶el (?), n. [Dim., fr. bulb, n.] (Bot.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.BulÏbif¶erÏous (?), a. [Bulb, n. + Ïferous: cf. F. bulbifŠre.] (Bot.) Producing bulbs.Bulb¶let (?), n. [Bulb, n. + Ïlet.] (Bot.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some a‰rial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.BulÏbose¶ (?), a. Bulbous.Bul¶boÐtu·ber (?), n. [Bulb, n. + tuber.] (Bot.) A corm.Bulb¶ous (?), a. [L. bulbosus: cf. F. bulbeux. See Bulb, n.] Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.ØBul¶bul (?), n. [Per.] (Zo”l.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliid‘. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]Bul¶bule (?), n. [L. bulbulus, dim. of bulbus. See Bulb, n.] A small bulb; a bulblet.Bul¶chin (?), n. [Dim. of bull.] A little bull.Bulge (?), n. [OE. bulge a swelling; cf. AS. belganÿto swell, OSw. bulgja, Icel. bÓlginn swollen, OHG. belganÿto swell, G. bulge leathern sack, Skr. b?hÿto be large, strong;ÿthe root meaning to swell. Cf. Bilge, Belly, Billow, Bouge, n.] 1. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.2. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.3. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.Bulge ways. (Naut.) See Bilge ways.Bulge, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bulged (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bulging.] 1. Toÿswell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.Broome.Bul¶gy (?), a. Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward. [Colloq.]ØBuÏlim¶iÏa (?), Bu¶liÏmy (?), } n. [NL. bulimia, fr. Gr. ?, lit., oxÐhunger; ? ox + ? hunger: cf. F. boulimie.] (Med.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.ØBuÏli¶mus (?), n. [L. bulimusÿhunger. See Bulimy.] (Zo”l.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.Bulk (?), n. [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b?lkast to be bulky. Cf. Boll, n., Bile a boil, Bulge, n.] 1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable.Bacon.2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, ½to obtain what by labor can be obtained.¸J.Morley.3. (Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.4. The body. [Obs.]Shak.My liver leaped within my bulk.Turbervile.Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. Ð To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. Ð In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. Ð Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. Ð Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.Syn. - Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness; massiveness.Bulk (?), v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bulked (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bulking.] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.Leslie Stephen.Bulk, n. [Icel. b¾lkr a beam, partition. Cf. Balk, n. & v.] A projecting part of a building. [Obs.]Here, stand behind this bulk.Shak.Bulk¶er (?), n. (Naut.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.Bulk¶head· (?), n. [See Bulk part of a building.] 1. (Naut.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.2. A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; Ð usually, the harbor line.Bulk¶iÏness (?), n. Greatness in bulk; size.Bulk¶y (?), a. Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.A bulky digest of the revenue laws.Hawthorne.Bull (?), n. [OE. bule, bul, bole; akin to D. bul, G. bulle, Icel. boli, Lith. bullus, Lett. bollis, Russ. vol'; prob. fr. the root of AS. bellan, E. bellow.] 1. (Zo”l.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovid‘); hence,ÿthe male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.µ The wild bullÿof the Old Testament is thought to be the oryx, a large speciesÿof antelope.2. One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.Ps.xxii.12.3. (Astron.) (a) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. (b) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun,And the bright Bull receives him.Thomson.4. (Stock Exchange) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.Bull baiting, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. Ð John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. ½GoodÐlooking young John Bull.¸ W.D.Howells. Ð To take the bullÿby the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.Bull, a. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.Bull batÿ(Zo”l.), the night hawk; Ð so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. Ð Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. Ð Bull mackerel (Zo”l.), the chub mackerel. Ð Bull pump (Mining), a direct singleÐacting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placedÿaboveÿthe pump. Ð Bull snakeÿ(Zo”l.), the pine snake of the United States. Ð Bull stag, a castrated bull. See Stag. Ð Bull wheel, a wheel, or drum, on which a rope is woundÿfor lifting heavy articles, as logs, the tools in well boring, etc.Bull, v.i. To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. [Colloq.]Bull, v.t. (Stock Exchange) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.Bull, n. [OE. bulle, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud, knob, LL., a seal or stamp: cf. F. bulle. Cf. Bull a writing, Bowl a ball, Boil, v.i.] 1. A seal. See Bulla.2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated ½a die Incarnationis,¸ i.e., ½from the day of the Incarnation.¸ See Apostolical brief, under Brief.A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses.Atterbury.3. A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic.Milton.The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; Ð so called from its golden seal.Syn. - See Blunder.ØBul¶la (?), n.; pl. Bull‘ (?). [L. bulla bubble. See Bull an edict.] 1. (Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.2. (Anat.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.3. A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.4. (Zo”l.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.Bul¶lace (?), n. [OE. bolas, bolace, OF. beloce; of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bolos, polos, Gael. bulaistear.] (Bot.) (a) A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum. (b) The bully tree.BulÏlan¶tic (?), a. [See Bull an edict.] Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.Fry.Bullantic letters, Gothic letters used in papal bulls.Bul¶laÏry (?), n. [LL. bullarium: cf. F. bullairie. See Bull an edict.] A collection of papal bulls.Bul¶laÏry, n.; pl. Bullaries (?). [Cf. Boilary.] A place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery.Crabb.And certain salt fats or bullaries.Bills in Chancery.Bul¶late (?), a. [L. bullatus, fr. bulla bubble.] (Biol.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.Bullate leafÿ(Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.Bull¶beg·gar (?), n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.And being an illÐlooked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish.Mountfort (1691).Bull¶ bri·er (?). (Bot.) A speciesÿof Smilax (S. PseudoÐChina) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; Ð called also bamboo brier and China brier.Bull¶combÏer (?), n. (Zo”l.) A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typh‘us vulgarisÿof Europe.Bull¶dog· (?), n. 1. (Zo”l.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; Ð so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.2. (Metal.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.Bull¶dog·, a. Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.Bulldog batÿ(Zo”l.), a bat of the genus Nyctinomus; Ð so called from the shape of its face.Bull¶doze· (?), v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bulldozed (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bulldozing.] To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; Ð used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]Bull¶do·zer (?), n. One who bulldozes. [Slang]Bulled (?), a. [Cf. Boln.] Swollen. [Obs.]ØBul¶lenÐbul¶len (?), n. [Native Australian name, from its cry.] (Zo”l.) The lyre bird.Bul¶lenÐnail· (?), n. [Bull large, having a large head + nail.] A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.Bul¶let (?), n. [F. boulet, dim. of boule ball. See Bull an edict, and cf. Boulet.] 1. A small ball.2. A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.3. A cannon ball. [Obs.]A ship before Greenwich … shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.Stow.4. The fetlock of a horse. [See Illust. under Horse.]Bul¶letÐproof· (?), a. Capable of resisting the force of a bullet.Bullet tree. See Bully tree. Ð Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.Bul¶leÏtin (?), n. [F. bulletin, fr. It. bullettino, dim. of bulletta, dim. of bulla, bolla, an edict of the pope, from L. bulla bubble. See Bull an edict.] 1. A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.2. Any public notice or announcement, especiallyÿof news recently received.3. A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.Bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.Bull¶faced· (?), a. Having a large face.Bull¶feast· (?), n. See Bullfight. [Obs.]Bull¶fight· (?), Bull¶fight·ing, n. A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, Ð still popular in Spain. Ð Bull¶fight·er (?), n.Bull¶finch· (?), n. (Zo”l.) A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.µ As a cage bird it is highly valued for its remarkable power of learning to whistle correctly various musical airs.CrimsonÐfronted bullfinch. (Zo”l.) See Burion. Ð Pine bullfinch, the pine finch.Bull¶fist (?), Bull¶fice (?), n. [Cf. G. bofist, AS. wulfes fist puffball, E. fizz, foist.] (Bot.) A kind of fungus. See Puffball.Bull¶ fly·or Bull¶fly· (?), n. (Zo”l.) Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.Bull¶frog· (?), n. (Zo”l.) A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; Ð so named from its loud bellowing in spring.Bull¶head· (?), n. 1. (Zo”l.) (a) A freshÐwater fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobioÿof Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; Ð called also miller's thumb. (b) In America, several species of Amiurus; Ð called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout. (c) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.2. (Zo”l.) (a) The blackÐbellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); Ð called also beetlehead. (b) The golden plover.3. A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.]Jonson.4. (Zo”l.) A small black water insect.E.Phillips.Bullhead whiting (Zo”l.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).
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Bull¶head·ed (?), a. Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.Bul¶lion (?), n. [Cf. OE. bullyon a hook used for fastening the dress, a button, stud, an embossed ornament of various kinds, e.g., on the cover of a book, on bridles or poitrels, for purses, for breeches and doublets, LL. bullio the swelling of boiling water, a mass of gold or silver, fr. L. bulla boss, stud, bubble (see Bull an edict), or perh. corrupted fr. ?. billon base coin, LL. billioÿbullion. Cf. Billon, Billet a stick.] 1. Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.µ Properly, the precious metals are called bullion, when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots or in any form uncoined, as in plate. The word is often often used to denote gold and silver, both coined and uncoined, when reckoned by weight and in mass, including especially foreign, or uncurrent, coin.2. Base or uncurrent coin. [Obs.]And those which eld's strict doom did disallow,And damm for bullion, go for current now.Sylvester.3. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.]The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound.Skelton.4. Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.Bul¶lionÏist, n. An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.Bul¶liÏrag (?), v.t. [Cf. bully, n. & v., and rag to scold, rail. Cf. Ballarag.] To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [Low]Bull¶ish (?), a. Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish.Milton.Bull¶ist, n. [F. bulliste. See Bull an edict.] A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.]Harmar.BulÏli¶tion (?), n. [L. bullire, bullitum, to boil. See Boil, v.i.] The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.Bacon.Bull¶Ðnecked· (?), a. Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull.Sir W.Scott.Bul¶lock (?), n. [AS. bulluc a young bull. See Bull.] 1. A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old.Judges vi.25.2. An ox, steer, or stag.Bul¶lock, v.t. To bully. [Obs.]She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me.Foote.Bul¶lock'sÐeye· (?), n. See Bull'sÐeye, 3.ØBul¶lon (?), n. (Zo”l.) A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).Bull¶pout· (?), n. (Zo”l.) See Bullhead, 1 (b).Bull's¶Ðeye· (?), n. 1. (Naut.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.2. A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.3. A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.4. A circular or oval opening for air or light.5. A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.Dickens.6. (Astron.) Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.7. (Archery & Gun.) The center of a target.8. A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.9. A small and thick oldÐfashioned watch. [Colloq.]Bull's¶Ðnose· (?), n. (Arch.) An external angle when obtuse or rounded.Bull¶ ter¶riÏer (?). (Zo”l.) A b?eed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.Bull¶ trout· (?). (Zo”l.) (a) In England, a large salmon trout of ??? species, as Salmo ??? and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; Ð called also sea trout. (b) Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; Ð called also Dolly Varden troutÿand redÐspotted trout. (c) The huso or salmon of the Danube.Bull¶weed· (?), n. [Bole a stem + weed.] (Bot.) Knapweed.Prior.Bull¶wort· (?), n. (Bot.) See Bishop'sÐweed.Bul¶ly (?), n.; pl. Bullies (?). [Cf. LG. bullerjaan, bullerb„k, bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. buhle.] 1. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in.Palmerston.2. A brisk, dashing fellow. [Slang Obs.]Shak.Bul¶ly (?), a. 1. Jovial and blustering; dashing. [Slang] ½Bless thee, bully doctor.¸Shak.2. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse. [Slang, U.S.]Bul¶ly, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bullied (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bullying.] To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of voluntrees gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just singing.Tatler.Syn. - To bluster; swagger; hector; domineer.Bul¶ly, v.i. To act as a bully.Bul¶lyÏrag (?), v.t. Same as Bullirag.Bul¶lyÏrock· (?), n. A bully. [Slang Obs.]Shak.Bul¶ly tree· (?). (Bot.) The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotace‘, as Dipholis nigraÿand species of Sapotaÿand Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling guttaÐpercha.Bul¶rush· (?), n. [OE. bulrysche, bolroysche; of uncertain origin, perh. fr. bole stem + rush.] (Bot.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.µ The name bulrush is applied in England especially to the catÐtail (Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia) and to the lake clubÐrush (Scirpus lacustris); in America, to the Juncus effusus, and also to species of Scirpus or clubÐrush.ØBulse (?), n. A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc. [India]Macaulay.Bul¶tel (?), n. [LL. bultellus. See Bolt to sift.] A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. [Obs.]Bul¶ti (?), n. (Zo”l.) Same as Bolty.Bul¶tow· (?), n. A trawl; a boulter; the mod? of fishing with a boulter or spiller.Bul¶wark (?), n. [Akin to D. bolwerk, G. bollwerk, Sw. bolwerk, Dan. bolv„rk, bulv„rk, rampart; akin to G. bohle plank, and werk work, defense. See Bole stem, and Work, n., and cf. Boulevard.] 1. (Fort.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.2. That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, … the floating bulwark of our island.Blackstone.3. pl. (Naut.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.Syn. - See Rampart.Bul¶wark, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bulwarked (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bulwarking.] To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.Of some proud city, bulwarked round and armedWith rising towers.Glover.Bum (?), n. [Contr. fr. bottom in this sense.] The buttock. [Low]Shak.Bum, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bummed (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bumming (?).] [See Boom, v.i., to roar.] To make murmuring or humming sound.Jamieson.Bum, n. A humming noise.Halliwell.Bum¶bail¶iff (?), n. [A corruption of bound bailiff.] [Low, Eng.] See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.Bum¶bard (?). See Bombard.ÿ[Obs.]Bum¶barge· (?), n. See Bumboat.Carlyle.Bum¶bast (?). See Bombast. [Obs.]Bum¶beÏlo (?), n.; pl. Bumbeloes (?). [It. bombola.] A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]Bum¶ble (?), n. [See Bumpÿto boom.] (Zo”l.) The bittern. [Local, Eng.]Bum¶ble, v.i. To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.As a bittern bumbleth in the mire.Chaucer.Bum¶bleÏbee· (?), n. [OE. bumblen to make a humming noise (dim. of bum, v.i.) + bee. Cf. Humblebee.] (Zo”l.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; Ð so named from its sound.µ There are many species. All gather honey, and store it in the empty cocoons after the young have come out.Bum¶boat· (?), n. [From bum the buttocks, on account of its clumsy form; or fr. D. bun a box for holding fish in a boat.] (Naut.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.Bum¶kin (?), n. [Boom a beam + Ïkin. See Bumpkin.] (Naut.) 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) Onr from each quarter, for the mainÐbrace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]ØBum¶maÏlo (?), n. [Native name.] (Zo”l.) A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; Ð called also Bombay duck.Bum¶mer (?), n. An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]Bum¶meÏry (?), n. See Bottomery. [Obs.]There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond.R.North.Bump (?), v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bumped (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bumping.] [Cf. W. pwmp round mass, pwmpiaw to thump, bang, and E. bum, v.i., boom to roar.] To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.Bump, v.i. To come in violent contact with something; to thump. ½Bumping and jumping.¸Southey.Bump (?), n. [From Bump to strike, to thump.] 1. A thump; a heavy blow.2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.It had upon its browA bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.Shak.3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of ½veneration;¸ the bump of ½acquisitiveness.¸ [Colloq.]4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]Bump, v.i. [See Boom to roar.] To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.As a bittern bumps within a reed.Dryden.Bump, n. The noise made by the bittern.Bum¶per (?), n. [A corruption of bumbard, bombard, a large drinking vessel.] 1. A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.He frothed his bumpers to the brim.Tennyson.2. A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]Bump¶er (?), n. 1. That which bumps or causes a bump.2. Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.Bump¶kin (?), n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: ½Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffeÐblock, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the foreÐsayle and spritÐsayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.¸ Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.] An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. ½Bashful country bumpkins.¸W.Irving.Bump¶tious (?), a. SelfÐconceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.]Halliwell.Bump¶tiousÏness, n. Conceitedness. [Colloq.]Bun, Bunn (?), n. [Scot. bun, bunn, OE. bunne, bonne; fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. bunna, Gael. bonnach, or OF. bugne tumor, Prov. F. bugne a kind of pancake; akin to OHG. bungo bulb, MHG. bunge, Prov. E. bung heap, cluster, bunny a small swelling.] A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.Bunch (?), n. [Akin to OSw. & Dan. bunke heap, Icel. bunki heap, pile, bunga tumor, protuberance; cf. W. pwng cluster. Cf. Bunk.] 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.They will carry … their treasures upon the bunches of camels.Isa.xxx.6.2. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.3. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.Page.Bunch, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bunched (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bunching.] To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.Woodward.Bunch, v.t. To form into a bunch or bunches.Bunch¶Ðbacked· (?), a. Having a bunch on the back; crooked. ½BunchÐbacked toad.¸Shak.Bunch¶ber·ry (?), n. (Bot.) The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.Bunch¶ grass· (?). (Bot.) A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.Bunch¶iÏness (?), n. The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.Bunch¶y (?), a. 1. Swelling out in bunches.An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled.Phaer.2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.3. (Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.Page.Bun¶combe, Bun¶kum (?), n. [Buncombe a country of North Carolina.] SpeechÐmaking for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.]All that flourish about right of search was bunkum Ð all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum … slavery speeches are all bunkum.Haliburton.To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.µ ½The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous 'Missouri Question,' in the 16th Congress. It was then used by Felix Walker Ð a na‹ve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent country of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the 'Question,' and several members gathered round him, begging him to desist. He preserved, however, for a while, declaring that the people of his district expected it, and that he was bound to 'make a speech for Buncombe.'¸W.Darlington.ØBund (?), n. [G.] League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.ØBund (?), n. [Hindi band.] An embankment against inundation. [India]S. Wells Williams.ØBun¶der (?), n. [Pers. bandar a landing place, pier.] A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
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ØBun¶desÏrath· (?), n. [G., from bund (akin to E. bond) confederacy + rath council, prob. akin to E. read.] The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.µ The Bundesrath of the German empire is presided over by a chancellor, and is composed of sixtyÐtwo members, who represent the different states of the empire, being appointed for each session by their respective governments.By this united congress, the highest tribunal of Switzerland, Ð the Bundesrath Ð is chosen, and the head of this is a president.J.P.Peters (Trans.Mller's Pol. Hist.).Bun¶dle (?), n. [OE. bundel, AS. byndel; akin to D. bondel, bundel, G. bndel, dim. of bund bundle, fr. the root of E. bind. See Bind.] A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.Goldsmith.Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it.Weale.Bun¶dle, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bundled (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bundling (?).] 1. To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.2. To send off abruptly or without ceremony.They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.T.Hook.To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. Ð To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.Bun¶dle, v.i. 1. To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.2. To sleep on the same bed without undressing; Ð applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.Bartlett.Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages of eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.W.Irving.Bung (?), n. [Cf. W. bwng orfice, bunghole, Ir. buinne tap, spout, OGeal. buine.] 1. The large spotter of the orfice in the bilge of a cask.2. The orfice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.3. A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low]You gilthy bung, away.Shak.Bung, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Bunged (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bunging (?).] To stop, as the orfice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; Ð with up.To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low]He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).Bun¶gaÏlow (?), n. [Bengalee b¾ngl¾] A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]ØBun¶gaÏrum (?), n. [Bungar, the native name.] (Zo”l.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.Bung¶hole· (?), n. See Bung, n., 2.Shak.Bun¶gle (?), v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bungled (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bungling (?).] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf. Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga.ÿSee Bang.] The act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.Bun¶gle, v.t. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; Ð sometimes with up.I always had an idea that it would be bungled.Byron.Bun¶gle (?), n. A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.Those errors and bungles which are committed.Cudworth.Bun¶gler (?), n. A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such!Barrow.Bun¶gling (?), a. Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.Swift.They make but bungling work.Dryden.Bun¶glingÏly, adv. Clumsily; awkwardly.Bun¶go (?), n. (Naut.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.Bartlett.Bun¶ion (?), n. (Med.) Same as Bunyon.Bunk (?), n. [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch.] 1. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.]2. One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.3. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]Bunk, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Bunked (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Bunking.] To go to bed in a bunk; Ð sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.]Bartlett.Bun¶ker (?), n. [Scot. bunker, bunkart, a bench, or low chest, serving for a seat. Cf. Bunk, Bank, Bench.] 1. A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [Scot.]Jamieson.2. A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.Bun¶ko (?), n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. Bank (in the commercial sense).] A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also bunco.]Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]Bun¶kum (?), n. See Buncombe.Bunn (?), n. See Bun.Bun¶nian (?), n. See Bunyon.Bun¶ny (?), n. (Mining) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.Bun¶ny, n. A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.ØBu·noÏdon¶ta (?), Bu¶noÏdonts (?), } n. pl. [NL. bunodonta, fr. Gr. ? hill, heap + ?, ?, a tooth.] (Zo”l.) A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; Ð so called because the teeth are tuberculated.Bun¶sen's bat¶terÏy (?), Bun¶sen's burn·er (?). See under Battery, and Burner.Bunt (?), n. (Bot.) A fungus (Ustilago fÒtida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; Ð also called pepperbrand.Bunt, n. [Cf. Sw. bunt bundle, Dan. bundt, G. bund, E. bundle.] (Naut.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.Totten.Bunt, v.i. (Naut.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.Bunt, v.t. & i. To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.Bun¶ter (?), n. A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant]Her … daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns.Goldsmith.Bun¶ting (?), n. [Scot. buntlin, cornÐbuntlin, OE. bunting, buntyle; of unknown origin.] (Zo”l.) A birdÿof the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillid‘).µ Among European species are the common or corn bunting (Emberiza miliaria); the ortolan (E. hortulana); the cirl (E. cirlus); and the blackÐheaded (Granitivora melanocephala). American species are the bayÐwinged or grass (Po”c‘tes or PoÒcetes gramineus); the blackÐthroated (Spiza Americana); the towhee bunting or chewink (Pipilo); the snow bunting (Plectrophanax nivalis); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others. See Ortolan, Chewick, Snow bunting, Lark bunting.Bun¶ting, Bun¶tine (?), n. [Prov. E. bunting sifting flour, OE. bontenÿto sift, hence prob. the material used for that purpose.] A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.Bunt¶line (?), n. [2d bunt + line.] (Naut.) 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.Totten.Bun¶yon, Bun¶ion (?), n. [Cf. Prov. E. bunny a small swelling, fr. OF. bugne, It. bugna, bugnone. See Bun.] (Med.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the burs‘ muscos‘), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.Buoy (?), n. [D. boei buoy, fetter, fr. OF. boie, buie, chain, fetter, F. bou‚e a buoy, from L. boia. ½Boiae genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae.¸ Festus. So called because chained to its place.] (Naut.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.Anchor buoy, aÿbuoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. Ð Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. Ð Breeches buoy. See under Breeches. Ð Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. Ð Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pearÐshaped. Ð Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. Ð Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. Ð To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor. Ð Whistling buoy, aÿbuoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.Buoy, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Buoyed (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Buoying.] 1. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; Ð with up.2. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.Burke.3. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.Darwin.Buoy, v.i. To float; to rise like a buoy. ½Rising merit will buoy up at last.¸Pope.Buoy¶age (?), n. Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.Buoy¶ance (?), n. Buoyancy. [R.]Buoy¶anÏcy (?), n.; pl. Buoyancies (?). 1. The property of floating on the surfaceÿof 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.2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships.Eng. Cyc.3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; Ð the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.Buoy¶ant (?), a. [From Buoy, v.t. & i.] 1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. ½Buoyant on the flood.¸Pope.2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.The water under me was buoyant.Dryden.3. LightÐhearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. Ð Buoy¶antÏly, adv.BuÏpres¶tiÏdan (?), n. [L. buprestis, Gr. ?, a poisonous beetle, which, being eaten by cattle in the grass, caused them to swell up and and die; ? ox, cow + ? to blow up, swell out.] (Zo”l.) One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larv‘ are usually bores in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.Bur, Burr (?), n. [OE. burre burdock; cf. Dan. borre, OSw. borra, burdock, thistle; perh. akin to E. bristle (burrÏ for burzÏ), or perh. to F. bourre hair, wool, stuff; also, according to Cotgrave, ½the downe, or hairie coat, wherewith divers herbes, fruits, and flowers, are covered,¸ fr. L. burrae trifles, LL. reburrus rough.] 1. (Bot.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.Amongst rude burs and thistles.Milton.Bur and brake and brier.Tennyson.2. The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.3. A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.4. The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.5. The sweetbread.6. A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.7. (Mech.) (a) A small circular saw. (b) A triangular chisel. (c) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; Ð used by dentists.8. [Cf. Gael. borr, borra, a knob, bunch.] (Zo”l.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. [Commonly written burr.]Bur oakÿ(Bot.), a useful and ornamental species of oak (Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, closeÐgrained, and durable. Ð Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.Bur¶bolt· (?), n. A birdbolt. [Obs.]Ford.Bur¶bot (?), n. [F. barbote, fr. barbe beard. See 1st Barb.] (Zo”l.) A freshÐwater fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. [Written also burbolt.]µ The fish is also called an eelpout or ling, and is allied to the codfish. The Lota vulgaris is a common European species. An American species (L. maculosa) is found in New England, the Great Lakes, and farther north.Bur·deÏlais¶ (?), n. [F. bourdelais, prob. fr. bordelais. See Bordelais.] A sort of grape.Jonson.Bur¶den (?), n. [Written also burthen.] [OE. burden, burthen, birthen, birden, AS. byr$en; akin to Icel. byr?i, Dan. byrde, Sw. b”rda, G. brde, OHG. burdi, Goth. ba£r?ei, fr. the root of E. bear, AS. beran, Goth. bairan. û92. See 1st Bear.] 1. That which is borne or carried; a load.Plants with goodly burden bowing.Shak.2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone,To all my friends a burden grown.Swift.3. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a shipÿof a hundred tons burden.4. (Mining) The tops or heads of streamÐwork which lie over the stream of tin.5. (Metal.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.Raymond.6. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.7. A birth. [Obs. & R.]Shak.Beast of burden, an animal employed in carrying burdens. Ð Burden of proof [L. onus probandi] (Law), the duty of proving a particular position in a court of law, a failure in the performance of which duty calls for judgment against the party on whom the duty is imposed.Syn. - Burden, Load. A burden is, in the literal sense, a weight to be borne; a load is something laid upon us to be carried. Hence, when used figuratively, there is usually a difference between the two words. Our burdens may be of such a nature that we feel bound to bear them cheerfully or without complaint. They may arise from the nature of our situation; they may be allotments of Providence; they may be the consequences of our errors. What is upon us, as a load, we commonly carry with greater reluctance or sense of oppression. Men often find the charge of their own families to be a burden; but if to this be added a load of care for others, the pressure is usually serve and irksome.Bur¶den, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Burdened (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Burdening (?).] 1. To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened.2 Cor.viii.13.2. To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.My burdened heart would break.Shak.3. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). [R.]It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell.Coleridge.Syn. - To load; encumber; overload; oppress.