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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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Bū'gle, n. p. 172A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. Phillips.Bū'gle or Bū'gle-hôrn, n. p. 172A musical wind instrument used in hunting or for military music. Blow, bugle, blow; set the wild echoes flying. Tennyson. One blast upon his bugle-horn were worth a thousand men. W. Scott. 2. A…Bū'gle, n. p. 172An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though more commonly black.Bū'gle, a. p. 172Jet-black. “Bugle eye-balls.” Shak.Bū'gle, n. p. 172(Bot.) A plant of the genus Ajuga, a native of Europe. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpithys.Bū'gler, n. p. 172One who plays on a bugle.Bū'gle-weed, n. p. 172(Bot.) A plant, the Lycopus sinuatus and Lycopus Virginicus, sometimes used as remedies for hemoptysis, or spitting of blood.Bū'glōss, n. p. 172(Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, used in dyeing and coloring; ox-tongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis.—Viper's bugloss…Bŭg's'-word, n. p. 172Swaggering or threat-Bāg'-word p. 172ening language. Beau. & Fl.Bŭg'-wort, n. p. 172(Bot.) A plant of the genus Cimicifuga. The species are herbaceous and perennial, and grow in the northern parts of the two hemispheres. Cimex serpentaria (or Actea racemosa) is the snake-root or…Būhl, n. p. 172A light and complicated figure of brass, unburnished gold, &c., set, as an ornament, into surfaces of ebony or other dark wood, or of tortoise-shell.Būhl'-work, n. p. 172Work in which wood is inlaid with buhl. The figures are generally cut in veneers by means of a slender saw, though sometimes produced by stamping. 2. The art of inlaying with buhl.Bâhr'-stōne, n. p. 172(Min.) A variety of flinty quartz, occurring as a rock, and characterized by being very cellular, or irregularly cavernous, in consequence of which it is valuable for mill-stones. Dana. ☞ This word…Build, v. t. p. 172To frame, construct, and raise, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to construct. Nor aught availed him now To have built in…Build, v. i. p. 172To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. To build, to plant, whatever you intend. Pope. 2. To construct, rest, or depend, as on a foundation; as, to build on the opinions of others.Build, n. p. 172Form or mode of construction; general figure; built; as, the build of a ship.Build'er, n. p. 172One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, a mason, &c. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and…Build'ing, n. p. 172The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The…Buĭlt, n. p. 172Form; shape; general figure of a structure; build. [Obs.] And as the built, so different is the fight: Their mounting shot is on our sails designed. Dryden. 2. Species of building. [Obs.] Temple.Buĭlt, a. p. 172Formed; shaped. “Like the generality of Genoese country-women, strongly built.” Landor.Buĭlt, p. a. p. 172Having the form of; resembling; like; — used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, &c. Built mast, block, or beam, one made of several pieces.Bŭk'shĭsh, n. p. 172A present of money, especially money given to a bĕggar; alms. [India.] [Written also bakshish and buksheesh.]Būl, n. p. 172The common flounder.Bŭlb, n. p. 172(Bot.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually the latter), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as…Bŭlb, v. i. p. 172To swell. To bulb out, to project or be protuberant. [Obs.] Evelyn.Bul-bā'ceoūs, a. p. 172Bulbous. [Obs.] Johnson.Būlbed, a. p. 172Having a bulb; round-headed.Būlb’el, n. p. 172(Bot.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.Bul-bif'er-oŭs, a. p. 172(Bot.) Producing bulbs; as, bulbiferous stems. Loudon.Bŭlb'let, n. p. 172(Bot.) A small bulb growing above ground on some plants, which never becomes a branch, but drops off, and falling to the ground, takes root and forms a new plant. Gray.Bul-bōse' or Bulb'ōus, a. p. 172(Bot.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulb-like in shape. Gray.Bŭl'bo-tū'ber, n. p. 172(Bot.) A solid bulb or underground stem, clothed with withered leaves, and producing buds on its surface. Ogilvie.Bŭl'bŭl, n. p. 172The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). Booth.Būl'būle, n. p. 172(Bot.) (a.) A little bulb. (b.) One of the little seeds growing along the vines of plants. Henslow.Bul'chin, n. p. 172A young male calf;— a diminutive of bull. [Obs.] Drayton.Bŭlge, n. p. 172The bilge or protuberant part of a cask; protuberance. 2. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See BILGE.Bŭlge, v. i. p. 172To swell or jut out; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges. 2. To bilge, as a ship. And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. Broome.Bŭlge'-wāys, n. pl. p. 172(Naut.) See BILGE-WAYS.Bu-lim'i-ā, n. p. 172[Fr. boulimie, Lat. bulīmus, Gr.Bū'li-my p. 172βούλιμος, βουλιμία; Gr. βοῦς, in composition, huge, great, from βοῦς, ox; and λιμός, hunger. (Med.) A disease in which the patient has a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food, and often faints…Bŭlk, n. p. 172Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; size; mass; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. 2. The gross; the majority; the main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; as, the bulk of a debt.…Bŭlk'er, n. p. 173(Naut.) A person employed to ascertain the capacity of goods, so as to fix the amount of freight or shore-dues to which they are liable.Bŭlk'-hēad, n. p. 173(Naut.) A partition in a ship, made with boards, &c., to form separate apartments. Totten.Bŭlk'i-ness, n. p. 173Greatness in bulk, size, or stature.Bŭlk'y, a. p. 173Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; as, bulky volumes.Bŭll, n. p. 173(Zoöl.) The male of any bovine quadruped, or of the different species of the genus Bos; hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant. 2. (Astron.) Taurus, one of the twelve signs of the…Bŭll, a. p. 173Of large size; — used in composition; as, bull-head, bulrush, bull-trout, &c.Bŭll, n. p. 173The seal appended to the edicts and briefs of the pope. See BILL. 2. A letter, edict, or rescript of the pope, transmitted to the churches over which he is head, containing some decree, order, or…Bŭl'la, n. p. 173(Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid. Dunglison.Bŭl'lāce, n. p. 173(Bot.) (a.) The wild plum, a species of Prunus (P. insititia); — called also bullace plum, and bullace-tree. (b.) The bully-tree; a species of Chrysophyllum, a native of the West Indies.Bul-lăn’tĭc, a. p. 173Pertaining to, or used in, apostolic bulls. Fry. Bullantic letters, ornamented capitals used in apostolic bulls.Bŭl'la-ry, n. p. 173A collection of papal bulls. 2. A place for boiling or preparing salt; boilary. And certain salt fats or bullaries, and divers other lands. Bills in Chancery,Bŭl'late, a. p. 173Having elevations like blisters. A bullate leaf (Bot.), one the membranous part of which rises between the veins in elevations like blisters.Bŭll'-bāit'ing, n. p. 173The practice of baiting or exciting bulls with dogs.Bŭl'-bĕg'gar, n. p. 173Something terrible or frightful; something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the…Bull'-bri'er, n. p. 173(Bot.) A large brier growing in the alluvial bottoms of the South-west, the root of which contains a farinaceous substance from which the Indians make bread. [Called also bamboo-brier.] [U. S.]…Bull'-cālf, n. p. 173A male calf; a stupid fellow.Bull'-dŏg, n. p. 173A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity and courage;—so named, probably, from being employed in baiting bulls, or from the size of the head.Bulled, a. p. 173Swollen. B. Jonson.