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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Bŏg'-ėarth, n. p. 147(Min.) A soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc.Bō'gey or Bō'gy or Bō'gle or Bōg'gle, n. p. 147A bugbear; a specter. I am Bogey, and I frighten every body away. Thackeray. There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogs in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.Bŏg'gle, v. i. p. 147To stop or hesitate as if in doubt, or suddenly frightened, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanville.…Bŏg'gle, v. t. p. 147To embarrass with difficulties. [Local, U. S.]Bŏg'gler, n. p. 147One who boggles.Bŏg'glish, a. p. 147Doubtful. [obs.] Bp. Taylor.Bŏg'gy, a. p. 147Containing bogs; full of bogs; swampy.Bóg'-house, n. p. 147A house of office; a privy. Johnson.Bŏg'-lànd, a. p. 147Living in, or pertaining to, a boggy or marshy country. Men without hearts, and women without hose, Each bring his bogland captive home. Dryden.Bŏg'-mŏss, n. p. 147(Bot.) The Sphagnum, a genus of aquatic moss plants, having white leaves slightly tinted with red or green. W. Baird.Bŏg'-ōre, n. p. 147(Min.) (a.) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b.) Bog manganese. Dover.Bŏg'-rŭsh, n. p. 147(Bot.) A rush that grows in bogs, of several species, constituting the genus Schœnus.Bŏg'-spāv'in, n. p. 147(Far.) An encysted tumor on the inside of the hough, containing a gelatinous matter. White.Bŏg'-trŏt'ter, n. p. 148One who lives in a boggy country;—formerly applied in derision to Irish robbers. Halliwell.Bŏg'-trŏt'ting, a. p. 148Living among bogs; as, a bog-trotting Irishman.Bŏ'gus, a. p. 148Spurious;—a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Amer.]Bŏ'gus, n. p. 148A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Amer.] Bartlett.Bŏg'-whort, n. p. 148(Bot.) The bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), growing in low lands.Bo-hēa', n. p. 148An inferior kind of black or green tea, especially the former. ☞ The name is applied to other varieties of black tea, or to black tea in general.Bō'hun Ū'pas p. 148See Upas.Boi'är or Boy'är, n. p. 148A nobleman; a lord; a person of quality; a soldier. [Russ.] This word answers nearly to baron in Great Britain, and other countries in the west of Europe. Tooke.Boi'a-rĭn, n. p. 148A gentleman; a person of distinction; the master of a family. [Russ.] Tooke.Boil, v. i. p. 148To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat;—used of liquids; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils. (Chem.) To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor, at the boiling…Boil, v. t. p. 148To cause to bubble or be agitated by the application of heat; 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…Boil, n. p. 148A 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…Boil'a-ry, n. p. 148The water which arises from a salt well, belonging to one who has no right in the soil. Bouvier.Boiled, p. a. p. 148Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid.Boil'er, n. p. 148One who boils. 2. A vessel in which any thing is boiled. 3. (Mech.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or…Boil'er-plāte or Boil'er-ī'ron, n. p. 148Plate-iron of about a quarter to a half inch thickness, whether used for making boilers, or otherwise. See TANK-IRON.Boil'er-y, n. p. 148A place and apparatus for boiling, as salt. See BOILARY.Boil'ing, p. a. p. 148Bubbling; heaving in bubbles; agitated, as boiling liquor; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. The trembling fins the boiling waves divide. Gay. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is…Boil'ing, n. p. 148The act or state of bubbling; agitation by heat; ebullition; the act of subjecting to the action of heat, so as to boil, as a liquid, or of preparing by hot water, or of evaporation.Boil'ing-ly, adv. p. 148With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boilingly higher. Byron.Bois'ter-oŭs, a. p. 148Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough. We see the water swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The boisterous force of violent men. Milton. 2.…Bois'ter-ōūs-ly, adv. p. 148Violently; furiously; with loud noise; tumultuously.Bois'ter-oûs-ness, n. p. 148The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.Bō'la-ry, a. p. 148Pertaining to bole or clay, or partaking of its nature and qualities. “Loadstone . . . chiefly consisting of a bolary and clammy substance.” Browne.Bōld, a. p. 148Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; intrepid; courageous; not timorous or shrinking from risk. “Throngs of knights and barons bold.” Milton. 2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of…Bōld, v. t. p. 148To make daring. [Obs.] A. Hall.Bōld'en, v. t. p. 148To make bold; to give confidence to; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.Bōld'-fāce, n. p. 148Impudence; sauciness;—a term of reprehension. L'Estrange.Bōld'-fāced, a. p. 148Impudent. I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age. Bramhall.Bōld'ly, adv. p. 148In a bold manner; courageously; intrepidly; without timidity or fear; with confidence. 2. Impudently; insolently.Bōld'ness, n. p. 148The quality of being bold. Syn.—Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.Bōle, n. p. 148The body or stem of a tree. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson. 2. A measure. See BOLL. Mortimer.Bōle, n. p. 148A kind of fine, compact, or earthy clay, often highly colored with iron, and varying in shades of color from white to yellowish, reddish, bluish, and brownish. See CLAY. Dana. 2. A bolus; a dose.…Bō-lē'ction-mōld/ings, n. pl. p. 148(Joinery.) Moldings which project beyond the surface of the framing. Ogilvie.Bo-lē'ro, n. p. 148A favorite dance in Spain.Bo-lēt'ic, a. p. 148(Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus. Boletic acid, an acid discovered by Braconnot in the juice of the Boletus fomentarius, var. pseudo-igniarius.Bo-lē'tus, n. p. 148(Bot.) A genus of fungi or mushrooms containing numerous species. B. esculentus is the eatable mushroom; B. igniarius furnishes what is popularly called touchwood, punk, &c. London.Bō'lis, n. p. 148A fire-ball darting through the air, followed by a train of light or sparks; a meteor.Bōll, n. p. 148The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax; 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…Bōll, v. i. p. 148To form into a pericarp or seed-vessel. The barley was in the ear and the flax was boiled. Ex. ix. 31.Bōl'lard, n. p. 148A large post set in the ground on either side of a dock, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawser for docking and undocking ships.Bōl'yard Tim'ber p. 148(Naut.) A timber, also called a knight-head, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.Bōll'ing, n. p. 148A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.Bōll'-worm, n. p. 148(Entom.) An insect that destroys the cotton boll or pod.Bōln, v. i. p. 148To swell; to puff. Holland.Bōln or Bōllen, a. p. 148Swollen; puffed out. “Thin, and boln out like a sail.” B. Jonson.Bo-lōgn'ȧ Sau'saġe p. 148A large sausage made of bacon, veal, and pork-suet, chopped fine, and inclosed in a skin.