BOGGARDBog"gard, n.
Defn: A bogey. [Local, Eng.]
BOGGLEBog"gle, v. i. [imp & p. p. Boggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Boggling.] Etym:[ See Bogle, n.]
1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.
2. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell.
Syn.— To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.
BOGGLEBog"gle, v. t.
Defn: To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.[Local, U. S.]
BOGGLERBog"gler, n.
Defn: One who boggles.
BOGGLISHBog"glish, a.
Defn: Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]
BOGGYBog"gy, a.
Defn: Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
BOGIEBo"gie, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.]
Defn: A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
BOGIE ENGINEBo"gie en"gine. (Railroads)
Defn: A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which are on a bogie, or truck.
BOGLE Bo"gle, n. Etym: [Scot. and North Eng. bogle, bogill, bugill, specter; as a verb, to terrify, fr. W. bwgwl threatening, fear, bwg, bwgan, specter, hobgoblin. Cf. Bug.]
Defn: A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.[Written also boggle.]
BOGSUCKERBog"suck`er, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The American woodcock; — so called from its feeding among the bogs.
BOGTROTTERBog"trot`ter, n.
Defn: One who lives in a boggy country; — applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.
BOGTROTTINGBog"trot`ting, a.
Defn: Living among bogs.
BOGUEBogue, v. i. (Naut.)
Defn: To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; — said only of inferior craft.
BOGUEBogue, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The boce; — called also bogue bream. See Boce.
BOGUSBo"gus, a. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Defn: Spurious; fictitious; sham; — a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]
BOGUSBo"gus, n.
Defn: A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
BOGWOODBog"wood`, n.
Defn: The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
BOGYBo"gy, n.; pl. Bogies. Etym: [See Bogle.]
Defn: A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies."J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.]There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in thehistory of savages. C. Kingsley.
BOHEA Bo*hea", n. Etym: [From Wu-i, pronounced by the Chinese bu-i, the name of the hills where this kind of tea is grown.]
Defn: Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
Note: The name was formerly applied to superior kinds of black tea, or to black tea in general.
BOHEMIABo*he"mi*a, n.
1. A country of central Europe.
2. Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian,n., 3.She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. ComptonReade.
BOHEMIANBo*he"mi*an, a.
1. Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
2. Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy. [Modern] Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zoöl.), a small bird of Europe and America (Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing. — Bohemian glass, a variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.
BOHEMIANBo*he"mi*an, n.
1. A native of Bohemia.
2. The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.
3. A restless vagabond; — originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]
Note: In this sense from the French bohémien, a gypsy; also, a personof irregular habits.She was of a wild, roving nature, inherited from father and mother,who were both Bohemians by taste and circumstances. Thackeray.
BOHEMIANISMBo*he"mi*an*ism, n.
Defn: The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]
BOHUN UPASBo"hun u"pas.
Defn: See Upas.
BOIARBo*iar", n.
Defn: See Boyar.
BOILBoil, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Boiling.] Etym:[OE. boilen, OF. boilir, builir, F. bouillir, fr. L. bullire to be ina bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls.Cf. Bull an edict, Budge, v., and Ebullition.]
1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
2. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.
3. To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
4. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. Surrey.
5. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. — To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.
BOILBoil, v. t.
1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
3. To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes. The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all. Gower.
4. To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.
BOILBoil, n.
Defn: Act or state of boiling. [Colloq.]
BOILBoil, n. Etym: [Influenced by boil, v. See Beal, Bile.]
Defn: A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. — Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.
BOILARYBoil"a*ry, n.
Defn: See Boilery.
BOILEDBoiled, a.
Defn: Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
BOILERBoil"er, n.
1. One who boils.
2. A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
Note: The word boiler is a generic term covering a great variety of kettles, saucepans, clothes boilers, evaporators, coppers, retorts, etc.
3. (Mech.)
Defn: A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
Note: The earliest steam boilers were usually spheres or sections of spheres, heated wholly from the outside. Watt used the wagon boiler (shaped like the top of a covered wagon) which is still used with low pressures. Most of the boilers in present use may be classified as plain cylinder boilers, flue boilers, sectional and tubular boilers. Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part containing the flues. — Boiler plate, Boiler iron, plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc. — Cylinder boiler, one which consists of a single iron cylinder. — Flue boilers are usually single shells containing a small number of large flues, through which the heat either passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water. — Locomotive boiler, a boiler which contains an inclosed fire box and a large number of small flues leading to the chimney. — Multiflue boiler. Same as Tubular boiler, below. — Sectional boiler, a boiler composed of a number of sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built up. — Tubular boiler, a boiler containing tubes which form flues, and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler. See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam. — Tubulous boiler. See under Tubulous. See Tube, n., 6, and 1st Flue.
BOILERYBoil"er*y, n. Etym: [Cf. F. bouillerie.]
Defn: A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
BOILINGBoil"ing, a.
Defn: Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 º Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96º; for ether, 94.8º; for mercury, about 675º. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. — Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. — To be at the boiling point, to be very angry. — To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [Colloq.]
BOILINGBoil"ing, n.
1. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
2. Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
BOILINGLYBoil"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With boiling or ebullition.And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.
BOIS D'ARC Bois" d'arc". Etym: [F., bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians.] (Bot.)
Defn: The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880).
BOIS DURCIBois" dur`ci". Etym: [F., hardened wood.]
Defn: A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
BOISTBoist, n. Etym: [OF. boiste, F. boîte, from the same root as E. box.]
Defn: A box. [Obs.]
BOISTEROUS Bois"ter*ous, a. Etym: [OE. boistous; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity, bwystus ferocious.]
1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.
2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.
3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior. I like not that loud, boisterous man. Addison.
4. Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.
Syn. — Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
BOISTEROUSLYBois"ter*ous*ly, adv.
Defn: In a boisterous manner.
BOISTEROUSNESSBois"ter*ous*ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
BOISTOUSBois"tous, a.
Defn: Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.[Obs.] Chaucer.— Bois"tous*ly, adv.— Bois"tous*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BOJANUS ORGANBo*ja"nus or"gan. Etym: [From Bojanus, the discoverer.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.
BOKADAMBo"ka*dam`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Cerberus.
BOKEBoke, v. t. & i.
Defn: To poke; to thrust. [Obs. or Dial.]
BOLARBo"lar, a. Etym: [See Bole clay.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
BOLASBo"las, n. sing. & pl. Etym: [Sp.]
Defn: A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; — used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
BOLDBold, a. Etym: [OE. bald, bold, AS. bald, beald; akin to Icel. ballr,OHG. bald, MHG. balt, D. boud, Goth. bal boldness, It. baldo. In Ger.there remains only bald, adv. soon. Cf. Bawd, n.]
1. Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton.
2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. "The bold design leased highly." Milton.
3. In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. Shak.
4. Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in o composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold. "Bold tales." Waller. The cathedral church is a very bold work. Addison.
5. Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden.
6. Steep; abrupt; prominent. Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. Trumbull.
BOLDBold, v. t.
Defn: To make bold or daring. [Obs.] Shak.
BOLDBold, v. i.
Defn: To be or become bold. [Obs.]
BOLD EAGLEBold eagle, (Zoöl.)
Defn: an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs andeven the kangaroo.— To make bold, to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.
Syn. — Courageous; daring; brave; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; valiant; manful; audacious; stouthearted; high-spirited; adventurous; confident; strenuous; forward; impudent.
BOLDENBold"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boldened. ]
Defn: To make bold; to encourage; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.
BOLD-FACEDBold"-faced` (, a.
1. Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman. I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age. Bramhall.
2. (Print.)
Defn: Having a conspicuous or heavy face.
Note: This line is bold-faced nonpareil.
BOLDLYBold"ly, adv. Etym: [AS. bealdlice.]
Defn: In a bold manner.
BOLDNESSBold"ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being bold.
Syn. — Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.
BOLDO; BOLDUBol"do, Bol"du, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.
BOLE Bole, n. Etym: [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. bål, Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. Bulge.]
Defn: The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
BOLEBole, n. Etym: [Etym. doubtful.]
Defn: An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, forgiving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.]Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right LordGeraldin. Sir W. Scott.
BOLEBole, n.
Defn: A measure. See Boll, n., 2. Mortimer.
BOLE Bole, n. Etym: [Gr. a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol, and also L. bolus morsel. Cf. Bolus.]
1. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
2. A bolus; a dose. Coleridge. Armenian bole. See under Armenian.— Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BOLECTIONBo*lec"tion, n. (Arch.)
Defn: A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection. Gwilt.
BOLEROBo*le"ro, n. Etym: [Sp.] (Mus.)
Defn: A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.
BOLETE bolete n.
Defn: any fungus of the family Boletaceae.[WordNet 1.5]
BOLETICBo*let"ic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus. Boletic acid, an acid obtained from the Boletus fomentarius, variety pseudo-igniarius. Same as Fumaric acid.
BOLETUSBo*le"tus, n. Etym: [L. boletus, Gr. .] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.
BOLEY; BOLYEBo"ley, Bo"lye, n.
Defn: Same as Booly.
BOLIDEBo"lide, n. Etym: [F. See Bolis.]
Defn: A kind of meteor; a bolis.
BOLISBo"lis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. missile, arrow, fr. to throw.]
Defn: A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.
BOLIVIANBo*liv"i*an, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Bolivia.— n.
Defn: A native of Bolivia.
BOLLBoll, n. Etym: [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel.]
1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]
BOLLBoll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bolled.]
Defn: To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. Ex. ix. 31.
BOLLANDISTSBol"land*ists, n. pl.
Defn: The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of theSaints; — named from John Bolland, who began the work.
BOLLARDBol"lard, n. Etym: [Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard.]
Defn: An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.
BOLLENBoll"en, a.
Defn: See Boln, a.
BOLLINGBoll"ing, n. Etym: [Cf. Bole stem of a tree, and Poll, v. t.]
Defn: A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
BOLLWORMBoll"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.
BOLNBoln, v. i. Etym: [OE. bolnen, bollen; cf. Dan. bulne. Cf. Bulge.]
Defn: To swell; to puff. Holland.
BOLN; BOLLENBoln, Boll"en, a.
Defn: Swollen; puffed out.Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.
BOLOBo"lo, n. [Sp.]
Defn: A kind of large knife resembling a machete. [Phil. Islands]
BOLOGNABo*lo"gna, n.
1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
2. A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage Etym: [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. — Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. — Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
BOLOGNESEBo*lo`gnese", a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Bologna.— n.
Defn: A native of Bologna. Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.
BOLOGNIANBo*lo"gnian, a. & n.
Defn: Bolognese. Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.
BOLOMETERBo*lom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. a stroke, ray + -meter.] (Physics)
Defn: An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; — called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.
BOLSABol"sa, n. [Sp., lit., purse. See Bourse.]
Defn: An exchange for the transaction of business. [Sp. Amer. & Phil.Islands]
BOLSTERBol"ster, n. Etym: [AS. bolster; akin to Icel. b, Sw. & Dan. bolster,OHG. bolstar, polstar, G. polster; from the same root as E. bolestem, bowl hollow vessel. Cf. Bulge, Poltroon.]
1. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; — generally laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.
2. A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. Gay.
3. Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
4. (Saddlery)
Defn: A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
5. (Naut.) (a) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing. (b) Anything used to prevent chafing.
6. A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
7. A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
8. The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
9. (Mech.)
Defn: the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
10. (Cutlery) (a) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle. (b) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle. G. Francis.
11. (Arch.)
Defn: The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. G.Francis.
12. (Mil.)
Defn: A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
Note: [See Illust. of Gun carriage.] Bolster work (Arch.), members which are bellied or curved outward like cushions, as in friezes of certain classical styles.
BOLSTERBol"ster, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolstered (; p. pr. & vb. n.Bolstering.]
1. To support with a bolster or pillow. S. Sharp.
2. To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; — often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.
BOLSTEREDBol"stered, a.
1. Supported; upheld.
2. Swelled out.
BOLSTERERBol"ster*er, n.
Defn: A supporter.
BOLTBolt, n. Etym: [AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout,OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]
1. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.
2. Lightning; a thunderbolt.
3. A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
4. A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
5. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.] Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him. Shak.
6. A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
7. A bundle, as of oziers. Bolt auger, an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights. — Bolt and nut, a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in illust. above.
Note: See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.
BOLTBolt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.
3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
4. (U. S. Politics)
Defn: To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
5. (Sporting)
Defn: To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.
BOLTBolt, v. i.
1. To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt. Drayton.
2. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. Milton.
3. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
4. (U.S. Politics)
Defn: To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
BOLTBolt, adv.
Defn: In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. Thackeray.Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up;unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.]Chaucer.
BOLTBolt, n. Etym: [From Bolt, v. i.]
1. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
2. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere. Compton Reade.
3. (U. S. Politics)
Defn: A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
BOLTBolt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.] Etym:[OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare,buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. SeeBorrel, and cf. Bultel.]
1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.
2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; — with out. Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L'Estrange.
3. (Law)
Defn: To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob. To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer. This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte. The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke.
BOLTBolt, n.
Defn: A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.
BOLTELBol"tel, n.
Defn: See Boultel.
BOLTERBolt"er, n.
Defn: One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
BOLTERBolt"er, n.
1. One who sifts flour or meal.
2. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
BOLTERBolt"er, n.
Defn: A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
BOLTHEADBolt"head` (, n.
1. (Chem.)
Defn: A long, straightnecked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; — called also a matrass or receiver.
2. The head of a bolt.
BOLTINGBolt"ing, n.
Defn: A darting away; a starting off or aside.
BOLTINGBolt"ing, n.
1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
2. (Law)
Defn: A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; — used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. — Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.
BOLTONITEBol"ton*ite, n. (Min.)
Defn: A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
BOLTROPEBolt"rope` (, n. (Naut.)
Defn: A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
BOLTSPRITBolt"sprit` (, n. Etym: [A corruption of bowsprit.] (Naut.)
Defn: See Bowsprit.
BOLTYBol"ty, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]
BOLUS Bo"lus, n.; pl. Boluses. Etym: [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. lump of earth. See Bole, n., clay.]
Defn: A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
BOMBom, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
BOMB Bomb, n. Etym: [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. .]
1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars.See Shell.
3. A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. — Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; — called also mortar vessel. — Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. — Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.
BOMBBomb, v. t.
Defn: To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
BOMBBomb, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Boom.]
Defn: To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]B. Jonson.
BOMBACEBom"bace, n. Etym: [OF.]
Defn: Cotton; padding. [Obs.]
BOMBARDBom"bard, n. Etym: [F. bombarde, LL. bombarda, fr. L. bombus + -ard.Cf. Bumper, and see Bomb.]
1. (Gun.)
Defn: A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.
2. A bombardment. [Poetic & R.] J. Barlow.
3. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.
4. pl.
Defn: Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
BOMBARDBom"bard, n. Etym: [OE. bombarde, fr. F. bombarde.] (Mus.)
Defn: See Bombardo. [Obs.]
BOMBARDBom*bard", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n.Bombarding.]
Defn: To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throwshells, hot shot, etc., at or into.Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke.His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.
BOMBARDIER Bom`bar*dier", n. Etym: [F. bombardier.] (Mil.) (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.
BOMBARDMANBom"bard*man, n.
Defn: One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.
BOMBARDMENTBom*bard"ment, n. Etym: [F. bombardement.]
Defn: An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
BOMBARDO; BOMBARDONBom*bar"do, Bom*bar"don, n. Etym: [It. bombardo.] (Mus.)
Defn: Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.
BOMBASINEBom`ba*sine", n.
Defn: Same as Bombazine.
BOMBASTBom"bast, n. Etym: [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasiuma doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. SeeBombazine.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.
BOMBASTBom"bast, a.
Defn: High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;bombastic.[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak.Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.
BOMBASTBom*bast", v. t.
Defn: To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICALBom*bas"tic, Bom*bas"tic*al, a.
Defn: Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated.— Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.
Syn.— Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
BOMBASTRYBom"bast*ry, n.
Defn: Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language;fustian.Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest ofall. Swift.
BOMBAXBom"bax, n. Etym: [LL., cotton. See Bombast, n.] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
BOMBAZET; BOMBAZETTEBom`ba*zet" Bom`ba*zette", n. Etym: [Cf. Bombazine.]
Defn: A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
BOMBAZINE Bom`ba*zine", n. Etym: [F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. . Cf. Bombast, Bombycinous.]
Defn: A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] Tomlinson.
BOMBICBom"bic, a. Etym: [L. bombyx silk, silkworm: cf. F. bombique.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
BOMBILATE Bom"bi*late, v. i. Etym: [LL. bombilare, for L. bombitare. See Bomb, n.]
Defn: To hum; to buzz. [R.]
BOMBILATIONBom`bi*la"tion, n.
Defn: A humming sound; a booming.To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.
BOMBINATEBom"bi*nate, v. i.
Defn: To hum; to boom.
BOMBINATIONBom`bi*na"tion, n.
Defn: A humming or buzzing.
BOMBOLOBom"bo*lo, n.; pl. Bomboloes. Etym: [Cf. It bombola a pitcher.]
Defn: A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]
BOMBPROOFBomb"proof`, a.
Defn: Secure against the explosive force of bombs.— n.
Defn: A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
BOMBSHELLBomb"shell` (, n.
Defn: A bomb. See Bomb, n.
BOMBYCIDBom*by"cid, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the familyBombycidæ.
BOMBYCINOUSBom*byc"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. bombycinus. See Bombazine.]
1. Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.
2. Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.
BOMBYLIOUSBom*byl"i*ous, a. Etym: [L. bombylius a bumblebee, Gr. .]
Defn: Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.
BOMBYXBom"byx, n. Etym: [L., silkworm. See Bombazine.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. SeeSilkworm.
BONBon, a. Etym: [F., fr. L. bonus.]
Defn: Good; valid as security for something.
BON-ACCORDBon-ac*cord", n.
Defn: Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]
BONACI Bo`na*ci", n. [Amer. Sp. bonasí, prob. from native name.] (Zoöl.) (a) A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; — called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper. (b) Also, any one of several other similar fishes.
BONA FIDEBo"na fi"de. Etym: [L.]
Defn: In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.
BONA FIDESBo"na fi"des (bo"na fi"dez). [L.]
Defn: Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.
BONAIR Bo*nair", a. Etym: [OE., also bonere, OF. bonnaire, Cotgr., abbrev. of debonnaire. See Debonair.]
Defn: Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]
BONANZABo*nan"za, n. Etym: [Sp., prop. calm., fair weather, prosperity, fr.L. bonus good.]
Defn: In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]
BONAPARTEANBo`na*part"e*an, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
BONAPARTISMBo"na*part`ism, n.
Defn: The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
BONAPARTISTBo"na*part`ist, n.
Defn: One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of theBonapartes.
BONA PERITURABo"na per`i*tu"ra. Etym: [L.] (Law)
Defn: Perishable goods. Bouvier.
BONA ROBABo"na ro"ba. Etym: [It., prop. "good stuff."]
Defn: A showy wanton; a courtesan. Shak
BONASUS; BONASSUSBo*na"sus, Bo*nas"sus, n. Etym: [L. bonasus, Gr. , .] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.
BONBON Bon"bon`, n. Etym: [F. bonbon, fr. bon bon very good, a superlative by reduplication, fr. bon good.]
Defn: Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
BONBONNIEREBon`bon`nière", n.; pl. -nières (#). [F.]
Defn: A small fancy box or dish for bonbons.
BONCEBonce, n. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.]
Defn: A boy's game played with large marbles.
BONCHRETIENBon`chré`tien", n. Etym: [F., good Christian.]
Defn: A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.
BONCILATEBon"ci*late, n. Etym: [Empirical trade name.]
Defn: A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
BONDBond, n. Etym: [The same word as band. Cf. Band, Bend.]
1. That which binds, ties, fastens,or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.
2. pl.
Defn: The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint."This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds." Acts xxvi.
3. A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as,the bonds of fellowship.A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.Burke.
4. Moral or political duty or obligation. I love your majesty According to my bond, nor more nor less. Shak.
5. (Law)
Defn: A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. Bouvier. Wharton.
6. An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
7. The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
8. (Arch.)
Defn: The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
9. (Chem.)
Defn: A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Arbitration bond. See under Arbitration. — Bond crediter (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. — Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. Burrows. — Bond (or lap) of a slate, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. — Bond timber, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.
Syn.— Chains; fetters; captivity; imprisonment.
BONDBond, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bonded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bonding.]
1. To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
2. (Arch.)
Defn: To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
BONDBond, n. Etym: [OE. bond, bonde, peasant, serf, AS. bonda]C, bunda,husband, bouseholder, from Icel. b husbandman, for b, fr. b to dwell.See Boor, Husband.]
Defn: A xassal or serf; a slave. [Obs. or Archaic]
BONDBond, a.
Defn: In a state of servitude or slavery; captive. By one Spirit are we all baptized .. whether we be Jews or Bentiles, whether we be bond or free. 1 Cor. xii. 13.
BONDAGEBond"age, n. Etym: [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]
1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South.
3. (Old Eng. Law)
Defn: Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn.— Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
BONDAGERBond"a*ger, n.
Defn: A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]
BONDARBon"dar, n. Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; — called also musk cat.
BONDEDBond"ed, a.
Defn: Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. — Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.
BONDERBond"er, n.
1. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
2. (Masonry)
Defn: A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
BONDERBond"er, n. Etym: [Norwegian bonde.]
Defn: A freeholder on a small scale. [Norway] Emerson.
BONDHOLDERBond"hold`er, n.
Defn: A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
BONDMAIDBond"maid`, n. Etym: [Bond,a.orn.+ maid.]
Defn: A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
BONDMANBond"man, n.; pl. Bondmen. Etym: [Bond,a.orn.+ man.]
1. A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. "To enfranchise bondmen." Macaulay.
2. (Old Eng. Law)
Defn: A villain, or tenant in villenage.
BOND SERVANTBond" serv`ant.
Defn: A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shaltnot compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant.Lev. xxv. 39, 40.
BOND SERVICEBond" serv`ice.
Defn: The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
BONDSLAVEBond"slave` (, n.
Defn: A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
BONDSMANBonds"man, n.; pl. Bondsmen . Etym: [Bond,a.orn.+ man.]
1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.
2. (Law)
Defn: A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.
BONDSTONEBond"stone`, n. Etym: [Bond,n.+ stone.] (Masonry)
Defn: A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
BONDSWOMANBonds"wom`an, n.
Defn: See Bondwoman.
BONDUCBon"duc, n. Etym: [F. bonduc, fr. Ar. bunduq hazel nut, filbert nut.](Bot.)
Defn: See Nicker tree.
BONDWOMANBond"wom`an, n.; pl. Bondwomen. Etym: [Bond,a.orn.+ woman.]
Defn: A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23.
BONEBone, n. Etym: [OE. bon, ban, AS. ban; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben,Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.]
1. (Anat.)
Defn: The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify.
2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
4. pl.
Defn: Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
5. pl.
Defn: Dice.
6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
7. Fig.: The framework of anything. A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute. — A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). — Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; — used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. — Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; — called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. — Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. — Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer. — Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. — Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. — Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; — also called Dippel's oil. — Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary. — Bone shark (Zoöl.), the basking shark. — Bone spavin. See under Spavin. — Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise. — Bone whale (Zoöl.), a right whale. — To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Obs.] — To make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low] — To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]
BONEBone, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boned (; p. pr. & vb. n. Boning.]
1. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.
2. To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. Ash.
3. To fertilize with bone.
4. To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]
BONE Bone, v. t. Etym: [F. bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, fr. borgne one-eyed.]
Defn: To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it orthey be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.Knight.Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M.Buchanan.
BONEACHEBone"ache`, n.
Defn: Pain in the bones. Shak.
BONEBLACKBone"black`, n.
Defn: See Bone black, under Bone, n.
BONEDBoned, a.
1. Having (such) bones; — used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak.