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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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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.Bo-lōgn'ā Stōne or Bo-lōgn'ian Stōne p. 148Radiated sulphate of barytes, found in roundish masses, composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined.Bo-lōgn-ēse′ or Bo-lōgn′ian, a. p. 148(Geog.) Pertaining to Bologna; belonging to Bologna. Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by Caracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to…Bo-lōgn-ēse', n. p. 148(Geog.) An inhabitant of Bologna.Bōl'ster, n. p. 148A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of persons lying on a bed;—generally laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlets, another way…Bōl'ster, v. t. p. 149To support with a bolster. Sharp. 2. To support; to hold up; to maintain. “To bolster baseness.” Drayton.Bōl’ster, v. i. p. 149To lie together or on the same bolster. Mortal eyes do see them bolster. Shak.Bōl'stered, a. p. 149Supported; upheld; maintained. 2. Swelled out.Bōl'ster-er, n. p. 149A supporter.Bōl'ster-ing, n. p. 149A propping up or supporting.Bōlt, n. p. 149A pointed shaft or missile intended to be shot from a cross-bow or catapult; an arrow; a dart. “A fool’s bolt is soon shot.” Shak. 2. A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold…Bōlt, v. t. p. 149To fasten or secure with a bolt or pin, as a door, a plank, fetters, &c. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. 2. To fasten; to shackle; to restrain. Which shackles accident and bolts up change.…Bōlt, v. t. p. 149To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, or purify by other means; as, to bolt meal. He now had bolted all the…Bōlt, v. i. p. 149To start forth like a bolt; hence, to spring or move abruptly; 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…Bōlt, adv. p. 149With sudden meeting or collision. “[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.” Thackeray.Bōlt'-au'ger, n. p. 149A large auger used in ship-building.Bōlt'-cŭt'ter, n. p. 149A machine or tool for cutting the threads on bolts.Bōl'tel, n. p. 149See BOULT.Bōlt'er, n. p. 149One who bolts; a man who breaks away from his party; a horse which starts suddenly aside. 2. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer. 3. A…Bōlt'-hĕad, n. p. 149(Chem.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; — called also a matrass or receiver.Bōlt'ing, n. p. 149The act of fastening with a bolt or bolts; a sifting; discussion; a starting aside. 2. (Law.) Private arguing of cases for practice by the students and barristers, differing from mooting in being…Bōlt'ing-clōth, n. p. 149A linen or hair cloth of which bolters are made for sifting meal, flour, &c.Bōlt'ing-house, n. p. 149The house or place where any thing is bolted.Bōlt'ing-hŭtch, n. p. 149A tub or receptacle into which any thing is bolted. For as a miller in his bolting-hutch, Drives out the pure meal nearly as he can, And in his sifter leaves the coarser bran. Browne.Bōlt'ing-mill, n. p. 149A machine or engine for sifting meal, flour, &c.Bōlt'ing-tŭb, n. p. 149A tub to sift any thing in; a bolting-hatch.Bōl'ton-ite, n. p. 149(Min.) A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts; chiefly composed of silica and magnesia. It has been referred to the species chrysolite. Dana.Bōlt'-rōpe, n. p. 149(Naut.) A rope to which the edges of sails are sewed to strengthen them.Bōlt'sprīt, n. p. 149(Naut.) See BOWSPRIT.Bōlt'-up-right', a. p. 149Perfectly upright; perpendicular. The statue, erecting itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt-upright. Spectator.Bō'lus, n. p. 149(Med.) A rounded mass of any thing; a large pill. 2. A variety of bole. Dunglison.Bōm, n. p. 149(Zoöl.) A large serpent found in America, so called from the sound uttered by it. Buchanan.Bōmb, n. p. 149A 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.) A hollow ball or shell of cast iron filled…Bŏmb, v. t. p. 149To attack with bombs; to bombard. [Obs.] Villeroy . . . marches on secure, To bomb the monks, and scare the ladies. Prior.Bōmb, v. i. p. 149To sound. [Obs.] What overcharged piece of melancholy Is this, breaks in between my wishes thus, With bombing sighs? B. Jonson.Bôm'bard, n. p. 149(Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. [Obs.] They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air…Bŏm-bärd', v. t. p. 149To attack with bombs. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke.Bŏm'bar-dīer', n. p. 149(Mil.) A person employed in throwing bombs or shells; in more general use, an artillery-man. [Rare.]Bôm/bar-diēr'-bee/tle, n. p. 149(Entom.) A kind of beetle, the Brachinus crepitans, which, when disturbed, makes an explosive discharge with a sort of smoke or vapor, which is acrid and of a pungent odor; hence the name. The name…Bôm'bard-măn, n. p. 149One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. They . . . made room for a bombard-man that brought bouge for a country lady. L. Jonson.Bŏm-bärd'ment, n. p. 149An attack with bombs; the act of throwing bombs into a town, fort, or ship.Bŏm-bär'do or Bŏm-bär'don, n. p. 149A musical instrument of the wind kind, much like the bassoon, and used as a bass to the hautboy. [Also written bombard.] Moore.Bŏm'băst, n. p. 149Originally, cotton. [Obs.] “A candle with a wick of bombast.” Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] Doublets, stuffed with four…