(n.) See Burg.

(n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

(v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

(v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

(n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.

(v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.

(n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.

(a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.

(a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.

(a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.

(a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.

(a.) Careful; anxious.

(v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.

(n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.

(n.) The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

(n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

(n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.

(n.) A boil.

(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.

(n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

(n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.

(n.) Nonsense; vain words.

(n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.

(n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

(v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.

(v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

(v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

(v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

(v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

(n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

(n.) Alt. of Barque

(n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.

(n.) The lap or bosom.

(v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.

(v. t. & i.) To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.

(v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

(n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.

(n.) A rush or impetus; force.

(pref.) A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

(n.) A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.

(n.) See Bice.

(v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.

(v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

(v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

(v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.

(v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

(v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?

(v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

(v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

(v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

(v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

(v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.

(v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.

(v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

(v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.

(v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

(v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

(v.) A sharper; one who cheats.

(v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

(n.) See Bitts.

(v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.

(v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

(v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.

(n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.

(v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.

(v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

(a.) Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.

(v. i.) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.

(v. t.) To utter inconsiderately.

(a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

(n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

(n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.

(n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.

() imp. & p. p. of Bleed.

(n.) Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bleed

(n.) A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.

() imp. of Blow.

(n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk

(n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.

(v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.

(v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

(v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.

(v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.

(n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

(v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.

(n.) Cessation; end.

(p. p.) of Be

(n.) A prayer.

(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

(n.) Any small globular body

(n.) A bubble in spirits.

(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.

(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.

(n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.

(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.

(n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.

(n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.

(n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.

(n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

(n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

(n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.

(n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

(n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

(n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

(n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

(n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).

(n.) A magistrate or policeman.

(n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

(n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.

(n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.

(n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.

(n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.

(n.) The pole of a carriage.

(n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

(n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.

(n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

(n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

(n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.

(n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.

(n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

(v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.

(v. i.) To emit beams of light.

(n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).

(v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

(v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

(v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

(v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

(v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

(n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.

(n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

(n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

(n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

(n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

(n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

(imp.) of Beat

(p. p.) of Beat

(v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.

(v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.

(v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

(imp.) of Blow

(imp.) of Blow

(v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

(v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

(v. t.) To tread, as a path.

(v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.

(v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

(v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

(v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.

(v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

(v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.

(v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.

(v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.

(v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

(v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

(v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

(v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

(n.) A stroke; a blow.

(n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

(n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.

(n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

(n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.

(v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

(v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

(a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

(pl. ) of Baa

(n.) A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire.

(n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

(v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.

(v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.

(v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.

(n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

(n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

(n.) A moral stain or blot.

(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.

() The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.

(n.) A small image of an infant; a doll.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.

(v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.

(n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

(n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

(v. t.) To mend; to repair.

(v. t.) To renew or enkindle (a fire).

(n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

(n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

(n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

(v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

(v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

(v. i.) To go or row in a boat.

(n.) A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.

() A form of the pat tense of Bid.

(n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

(n.) A blow; a stroke.

(n.) Same as Bafta.

(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

(n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

(v.) 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.

(v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

(v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

(v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

(v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

(v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.

(n.) Act or state of boiling.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

(n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.

(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

(v. t. & i.) To poke; to thrust.

(n.) Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

(n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.

(n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.

(n.) Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.

(n.) Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.

(n.) Steep; abrupt; prominent.

(v. t.) To make bold or daring.

(v. i.) To be or become bold.

(n.) The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.

(n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.

(n.) A measure. See Boll, n., 2.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A bolus; a dose.

(v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

(v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

(v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

(v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.

(v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

(v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.

(v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

(v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.

(v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

(v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

(v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

(v. t.) To harden by cold.

(v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

(v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

(n.) The process, or result, of baking.

(n.) A great noise; a hollow sound.

(n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

(n.) A bomb ketch.

(v. t.) To bombard.

(v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

(v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

(v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."

(v. i.) One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

(v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

(v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

(v. i.) A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.

(v. t.) To leave or make balks in.

(v. t.) To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

(v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.

(v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

(v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation.

(v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

(v. i.) To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

(v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

(v. t.) To pierce.

(n.) See Bear, barley.

(n.) Alt. of Berme

(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.

(n.) The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs.

(n.) Any fragrant ointment.

(n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.

(v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate.

(n.) A cow house.

(n.) See Byssus, n., 1.

(n.) Alt. of Bank

(v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.

(v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

(v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

(v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

(v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

(v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.

(v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.

(v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

(v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.

(v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

(v. t.) A belt or strap.

(v. t.) A bond

(v. t.) Pledge; security.

(v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.

(v. t.) To mark with a band.

(v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.

(v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.

(v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.

() imp. of Bind.

(n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.

(n.) Destruction; death.

(n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.

(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

(a.) Having large or prominent bones.

(n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

(n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

(n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.

(n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

(n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.

(v. t.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

(v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

(v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

(v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

(v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

(n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.

(n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.

(v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.

(n.) A prayer or petition.

(n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.

(n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.

(n.) Kind; bountiful; benign.

(n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

(n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

(n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

(v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

(v. t.) To better; to mend. See Beete.

(n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

(n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

(n.) Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

(n.) Figure; outline; show.

(n.) Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

(n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

(n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

(n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

(n.) A thicket; a small wood.

(n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.

(n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

(n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

(n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

(n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

(n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

(n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

(n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.

(v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

(v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

(v. i.) To play with bowls.

(v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

(n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

(n.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

(n.) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

(n.) Payment of any kind.

(n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

(a. or pron.) The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

(conj.) As well; not only; equally.

(n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.

(imp.) of Bid

(v. t.) To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.

(v. t.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.

(n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

(v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.

(v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.

(n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

(n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

(n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.

(n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

(n.) The body.

(n.) Bulk; volume.

(a.) Ready; prepared; destined; tending.

(v. t.) To make or get ready.

(n.) A chamber or a cottage.

(n.) A two-horse chariot.

() A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.

(n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

(n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

(n.) A curved handle.

(n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

(n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.

(n.) The rim of a hat.

(v. i.) To be full to the brim.

(v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

(a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

(n.) One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

(n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

(n.) A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.

(v. t.) To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.

(n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

(n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.

(n.) The forehead; as, a feverish brow.

(n.) The general air of the countenance.

(n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.

(v. t.) To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

(n.) A lantern; also, the moon.

(n.) A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

(n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

(n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.

(n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

(n.) The body.

(v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.

(v.) A projecting part of a building.

(v. t.) To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

(v. i.) To come in violent contact with something; to thump.

(n.) A thump; a heavy blow.

(n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.

(n.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."

(n.) The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

(v. i.) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.

(n.) The noise made by the bittern.

(n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

(n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

(n.) A sharper or pickpocket.

(v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

(n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

(n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.

(n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

(v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

(n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

(n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

(v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

(v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.

(v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

(v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.

(v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

(n.) A bird.

(n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.

(n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.

(n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

(n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.

(n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.

(n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.

(n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

(n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.

(n.) A support or resource in reserve.

(n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.

(n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

(n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.

(a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.

(a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.

(a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.

(v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.

(v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.

(v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.

(v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.

(v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

(v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.

(v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.

(v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.

(v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.

(v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

(v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.

(adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.

(adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.

(adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.

(adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.

(adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.

(adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.

(adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.

(adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.

(adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.

(adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

(n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.

(n.) A large house.