Bottom (v. t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
Bottom (v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of.
Bottom (v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
Bottom (v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
Bottom (v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
Bottomed (a.) Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
Bottomless (a.) Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
Bottomry (n.) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
Bottony (a.) Alt. of Bottone
Bottone (a.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
Botts (n. pl.) See Bots.
Botuliform (a.) Having the shape of a sausage.
Bouche (n.) Same as Bush, a lining.
Bouche (v. t.) Same as Bush, to line.
Bouche (n.) Alt. of Bouch
Bouch (n.) A mouth.
Bouch (n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
Bouchees (n. pl.) Small patties.
Boud (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
Boudoir (n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.
Bouffe (n.) Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.
Bougainvillaea (n.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
Bouged (imp. & p. p.) of Bouge
Bouge (v. i.) To swell out.
Bouge (v. i.) To bilge.
Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge.
Bouge (n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.
Bouget (n.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.
Bough (n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
Bough (n.) A gallows.
Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
Bought (n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
Bought () imp. & p. p. of Buy.
Bought (p. a.) Purchased; bribed.
Boughten (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Boughty (a.) Bending.
Bougie (n.) A long, flexible instrument, that is
Bougie (n.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
Bouilli (n.) Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
Bouillon (n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
Bouillon (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
Bouk (n.) The body.
Bouk (n.) Bulk; volume.
Boul (n.) A curved handle.
Boulangerite (n.) A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
Boulder (n.) Same as Bowlder.
Bouldery (a.) Characterized by bowlders.
Boule (n.) Alt. of Boulework
Boulework (n.) Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
Boulevard (n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
Boulevard (n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
Bouleversement (n.) Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
Buolt (n.) Corrupted form Bolt.
Boultel (n.) Alt. of Boultin
Boultin (n.) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
Boultin (n.) One of the shafts of a clustered column.
Boulter (n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
Boun (a.) Ready; prepared; destined; tending.
Boun (v. t.) To make or get ready.
Bounced (imp. & p. p.) of Bounce
Bouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bounce
Bounce (v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
Bounce (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
Bounce (v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
Bounce (v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
Bounce (v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
Bounce (v. t.) To bully; to scold.
Bounce (n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
Bounce (n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
Bounce (n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.
Bounce (n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
Bounce (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
Bounce (adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.
Bouncer (n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
Bouncer (n.) A boaster; a bully.
Bouncer (n.) A bold lie; also, a liar.
Bouncer (n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
Bouncing (a.) Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
Bouncing (a.) Excessive; big.
Bouncingly (adv.) With a bounce.
Bound (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
Bounded (imp. & p. p.) of Bound
Bounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bound
Bound (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
Bound (v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
Bound (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
Bound (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
Bound (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
Bound (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
Bound (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
Bound (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
Bound () imp. & p. p. of Bind.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.