Bolster (n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
Bolster (n.) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
Bolster (n.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
Bolster (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
Bolstered (imp. & p. p.) of Bolster
Bolstering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolster
Bolster (v. t.) To support with a bolster or pillow.
Bolster (v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
Bolstered (a.) Supported; upheld.
Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.
Bolsterer (n.) A supporter.
Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
Bolt (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.
Bolt (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
Bolt (n.) A bundle, as of oziers.
Bolted (imp. & p. p.) of Bolt
Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt
Bolt (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
Bolt (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Bolt (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
Bolt (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
Bolt (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
Bolt (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
Bolted (imp. & p. p.) of Bolt
Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt
Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
Bolt (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
Boltel (n.) See Boultel.
Bolter (n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
Bolter (n.) One who sifts flour or meal.
Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Bolthead (n.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
Bolthead (n.) The head of a bolt.
Bolting (n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Bolting (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal.
Bolting (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
Boltonite (n.) A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
Boltrope (n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
Boltsprit (n.) See Bowsprit.
Bolty (n.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).
Boluses (pl. ) of Bolus
Bolus (n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
Bom (n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
Bomb (n.) A great noise; a hollow sound.
Bomb (n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
Bomb (n.) A bomb ketch.
Bomb (v. t.) To bombard.
Bomb (v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
Bombace (n.) Cotton; padding.
Bombard (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
Bombard (n.) A bombardment.
Bombard (n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
Bombard (n.) Padded breeches.
Bombard (n.) See Bombardo.
Bombarded (imp. & p. p.) of Bombard
Bombarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bombard
Bombard (v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Bombardier (n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
Bombardier (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Bombardman (n.) One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.
Bombardment (n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Bombardo (n.) Alt. of Bombardon
Bombardon (n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
Bombasine (n.) Same as Bombazine.
Bombast (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
Bombast (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
Bombast (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Bombast (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
Bombastic (a.) Alt. of Bombastical
Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Bombax (n.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
Bombazet Bombazette (n.) A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
Bombazine (n.) A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.
Bombic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
Bombilate (n.) To hum; to buzz.
Bombilation (n.) A humming sound; a booming.
Bombinate (v. i.) To hum; to boom.
Bombination (n.) A humming or buzzing.
Bomboloes (pl. ) of Bombolo
Bombolo (n.) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.
Bombproof (a.) Secure against the explosive force of bombs.
Bombproof (n.) A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
Bombshell (n.) A bomb. See Bomb, n.
Bombycid (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidae.