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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Bōr'el, n. p. 152A kind of coarse, woolen cloth. [Obs.] 2. A kind of light stuff, of which the warp is silk and the woof is wool. Fleming.Bōr'er, n. p. 152One who bores; an instrument for boring. 2. (Zoöl.) (a.) A genus of sea-worms that pierce wood; Terebella. (b.) One of several species of worms, or the insects producing them, which penetrate trees…Bōr'ing, n. p. 153The act or process of making a hole with an auger, drill, or other like instrument. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson. 2. A hole made…Bōr'ing-bār, n. p. 153(Mach.) A revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.Bōr'ing-ma-chīne', n. p. 153(Mach.) A contrivance for dressing or boring holes; strictly, a machine tool, having a fixed or stationary cutter-head, for dressing holes already made, and sometimes called a borer, as a car-wheel…Bōr'ing-tool, n. p. 153A cutting tool placed in a cutter-head to dress round holes. 2. A drill.Bōrn, p. p. p. 153of bear. Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; produced. “No one could be born into slavery in Mexico.” Prescott. Born again (Theol.), regenerated, renewed, having received spiritual life.…Bōrne, p. p. p. 153of bear. Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See BEAR.Bor-nous', n. p. 153See BOURNOUS.Bō'ron, n. p. 153(Chem.) An elementary substance, nearly related to carbon, of a deep olive color, infusible, and not a conductor of electricity. At a red heat, it burns, uniting with oxygen, and forming boracic…Bōr'ŏugh, n. p. 153An incorporated town that is not a city; in England, a town or village that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by…Bōr'ōugh, n. p. 153(O. Eng. Law.) (a.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. (b.) The pledge or surety thus given. [Obs.] Blackstone. Tomlins.Bŏr'ŏugh-Eng'lish, n. p. 153(Eng. Law.) A customary descent of estates to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner leaves no son, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.Bōr'ŏugh-hēad p. 153The same as HEAD-BOROUGH; the chief of a borough; a constable. See HEAD-BOROUGH.Bōr'ŏugh-hōld'er, n. p. 153A head-borough; a bors holder.Bōr'ŏugh-mā's'tēr, n. p. 153The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.Bōr'ŏugh-mŏng'ger, n. p. 153One who buys or sells the patronage of a borough.Bōr'rel, a. p. 153Rustic; rude; clownish. [Obs.] “How be, I am but rude and borrell.” Spenser.Bōr'rel-ist, n. p. 153(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christians, in Holland, who reject the sacraments and all external worship, and yet lead an austere life;— so called from Borrel, the founder of the sect.Bŏr'rōw, v. t. p. 153To take or receive from another on trust, with the intention of returning or giving an equivalent for. 2. To take from another for one's own use; to adopt from a foreign source; to appropriate; to…Bōr'rŏw, n. p. 153A borrowing; the act of borrowing. [Obs.] Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week. Shak. 2. A pledge; cost; expense. [Rare.] “With bail nor borrow.” Spenser. “Ye may retain as…Bōr'rōw-er, n. p. 153One who borrows. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Shak. 2. One who takes what belongs to another to use as his own.Bōrs'-hōld'er, n. p. 153(Law.) The head or chief of a tithing, or burg of ten men; the head-borough. Lambert. Spelman.Bôrt, n. p. 153The small fragments removed from diamonds in cutting, when too small for jewelry;— used to make diamond powder for lapidary work. Tomlinson.Bō'ru-ret, n. p. 153(Chem.) A combination of boron with a simple body.Bōs, n. p. 153(Zoöl.) A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, distinguished from other genera of the same order by a stout body, short, thick limbs, hollow horns, and a large fold of the skin hanging from the neck. Dana.Bō'sā, n. p. 153A drink, used in the East, prepared from fermented millet-seed, with the mixture of certain substances to make it astringent. [Written also bouza.]Bōs'cage, n. p. 153Wood; underwood; lands covered with underwood; a thicket; thick foliage. “The somber boscage of the wood.” Tennyson. 2. (Old Law.) Food or sustenance for cattle yielded by bushes and trees. Cowell.…Bōsh, n. p. 153More show; hence, empty talk; nonsense; folly. [Colloq.] 2. Outline; figure. Chalmers.Bŏsh'bŏk, n. p. 153(Zoöl.) A kind of antelope in South Africa.Bōsh'es, n. pl. p. 153In a blast-furnace, the lower part of the shaft sloping downward from the belly, or widest part, to the hearth. Ure.Bōsk, n. p. 153A thicket or small forest. Tennyson.Bōs'ket or Bōs'quet or Bŭs'ket, n. p. 153(Gardening.) A grove; a compartment formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.Bōsk'y, a. p. 153Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.Bŏ'som, n. p. 153The breast of a human being; the part between the arms to which any thing is pressed by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak. 2. The breast, considered as the seat of the passions…Bo'som, v. t. p. 153To inclose in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish intimately. Bosom up my counsel; you'll find it wholesome. Shak. 2. To conceal; to hide from view; to unbosom. To happy…Bō'son, n. p. 153See BOATSWAIN. The merry bosom from his side His whistle takes. Dryden.Bos-pō'ri-an, a. p. 153(Geog.) Pertaining to a strait or narrow sea between two seas or a sea and a lake, particularly to the Thracian and the Cimmerian Bosporus. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute…Bŏss, n. p. 153A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a bridle, harness, shield, ceiling, groined roof, &c.; a stud; a knob. 2. Any…Bōss, n. p. 153The master workman or superintendent. [U. S.] 2. Master; one who can beat and overcome another. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.Bōss, v. t. p. 153To cover or ornament with bosses; to stud. 2. To hold mastery over; to direct or superintend work; as, to boss the house. [Low.] Bartlett.Bōss, v. i. p. 153To be master; to rule. “To boss it over the crowd.” [Low.] Bartlett.Bōss'age, n. p. 153A stone in a building, having a projection, and laid rough, to be afterward carved into ornamental forms. Gwilt. 2. Rustic work, consisting of stones which advance beyond the level of the building…Bŏs'set, n. p. 153A rudimental antler of the male of the red deer.Bŏss'ĭve, a. p. 153Crooked; deformed. [Obs.] Osborne.Bŏss'y, a. p. 153Containing a boss; ornamented with bosses; studded. His head reclining on his bossy shield. Pope.Bŏss'y, n. p. 153A calf;—familiarly so called. Bartlett.Bos-wĕll'i-an, a. p. 153Relating to, or resembling, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.Bŏs'well-ism, n. p. 153The manner or style of Boswell.Bŏt, n. p. 153See BOTS.Bo-tăn'ic or Bo-tăn'ic-al, a. p. 153Pertaining to botany; relating to, or containing, plants. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants, collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany.—Botanic…Bo-tān'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 153In a botanical manner; according to the system of botany.Bōt'an-ist, n. p. 153One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants or vegetables. Then spring the living herbs . . . beyond the power Of botanists to number up their tribes. Thomson.Bōt'a-nīze, v. i. p. 153To seek for plants for the purpose of botanical investigation. He could not obtain permission to botanize upon Mount Sabber. Niebuhr. Travs.Bŏt'a-nīz'ing, n. p. 153The seeking of plants for botanical purposes.Bōt'a-nōl'o-ǵer, n. p. 153One versed in botany; a botanist. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.Bŏt'a-nŏl'ō-gy, n. p. 153The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.Bŏt'a-no-mān'cy, n. p. 153An ancient species of divination by means of plants, especially sage and fig-leaves.Bŏt'a-ny, n. p. 153The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and…Bŏt'a-ny-Bāy Rĕs'in p. 153A resin of reddish-yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of the grass tree (Xanthorrhoea pastilis) of Australia;—so called from the place whence it is brought. Baird.