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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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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…Bŏm'băst, a. p. 149High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning. [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.Bôm-bäst’, v. t. p. 149To swell or fill out. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.Bŏm-băst'ic, a. p. 149Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. “A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology.” Burke.Bôm-băst'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 149With inflation of style.Bôm'bas-try, n. p. 149Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.Böm'bāte, n. p. 149(Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of bombic acid with a base.Bōm'bax, n. p. 149(Bot.) A genus of trees, the capsules of which yield a short, fibrous substance resembling silk or cotton.Bôm'ba-zēt' or Bôm'ba-zētte, n. p. 149A sort of thin woolen cloth.Bōm'-ba-zīne' or Bōm'-ba-sīne', n. p. 149A twilled fabric, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted; formerly black, for mourning garments, but now made of various colors. [Sometimes spelt bombasin.] Tomlinson.Bomb'-chēst, n. p. 149(Mil.) A chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to make destruction by its explosion.Böm'bic, a. p. 149Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silk-worm.Bŏm'bi-lāte, v. n. p. 149To make a humming or murmuring sound. [Rare.]Bŏm'bi-lā'tion, n. p. 149Sound; report; noise. [Obs.] To abate the vigor, or silence the bombilation, of guns. Browne.Bom-bil’i-oŭs, a. p. 149Making, or having, a humming or murmuring sound. [Obs.] The whome, or burrel-fly, is vexatious, ... not by stinging, but by its bombilious noise. —Derham.Bŏmb'-kĕtch or Bŏmb'-vĕs'sel, n. p. 149(Naut.) A small vessel, very strongly built, employed in carrying mortars to be used in bombardments at sea.Bomb'-proof, a. p. 149Secure against the force of bombs.Bomb'-shell, n. p. 149A hollow globe of iron, filled with powder, and thrown from a mortar; a bomb. See BOMB.Bom-byc'i-nous, a. p. 149Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles. 2. Being of the color of the silk-worm; transparent with a yellow tint. Darwin.Bŏm'byx, n. p. 149(Entom.) The silk-worm.Bōn, a. p. 149Good; valid as security for something.Bōn, n. p. 149A good saying; a jest; a tale. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. (Bot.) The coffee-tree;—so called in Egypt.Bo-nâir′, a. p. 149Complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]Bō'na-pärt'e-an, a. p. 150Pertaining to Bonaparte.Bō'na-pärt'ism, n. p. 150The policy or manners of Bonaparte. Lamartine.Bō'na-pärt'ist, n. p. 150One attached to the policy of Bonaparte.Bō'na Per-i-tū'ra p. 150(Law.) Perishable goods. Bouvier.