Booting (n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.
Booting (n.) A kicking, as with a booted foot.
Bootjack (n.) A device for pulling off boots.
Bootless (a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
Bootlick (n.) A toady.
Bootmaker (n.) One who makes boots.
Boots (n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
Boottopping (n.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
Boottree (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
Booty (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Boozed (imp. & p. p.) of Booze
Boozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Booze
Booze (v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
Booze (n.) A carouse; a drinking.
Boozer (n.) One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
Boozy (a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
Bopeep (n.) The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
Borable (a.) Capable of being bored.
Borachte (n.) A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
Boracic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
Boracite (n.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
Boracous (a.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
Borage (n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
Boragewort (n.) Plant of the Borage family.
Boraginaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
Boragineous (a.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
Boramez (n.) See Barometz.
Borate (n.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
Borax (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
Borborygm (n.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
Bord (n.) A board; a table.
Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
Bord (n.) See Bourd.
Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Bordar (n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
Bordeaux (a.) Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
Bordeaux (n.) A claret wine from Bordeaux.
Bordel (n.) Alt. of Bordello
Bordello (n.) A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
Bordelais (a.) Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
Bordeller (n.) A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
Border (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
Border (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
Border (n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
Border (n.) A narrow flower bed.
Bordered (imp. & p. p.) of Border
Bordering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Border
Border (v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
Border (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
Border (v. t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
Border (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
Border (v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.
Borderer (n.) One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
Bordland (n.) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
Bordlode (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
Bordman (n.) A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
Bordrag (n.) Alt. of Bordraging
Bordraging (n.) An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
Bord service () Service due from a bordar; bordage.
Bordure (n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
Bored (imp. & p. p.) of Bore
Boring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bore
Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
Bore (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Bore (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
Bore (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
Bore (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
Bore (n.) Caliber; importance.
Bore (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
Bore () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
Boreal (a.) Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
Boreas (n.) The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Borecole (n.) A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.
Boredom (n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Boredom (n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Boree (n.) Same as BourrEe.
Borel (n.) See Borrel.
Borele (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
Borer (n.) One that bores; an instrument for boring.
Borer (n.) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
Borer (n.) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
Borer (n.) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
Borer (n.) The hagfish (Myxine).
Boric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.
Boride (n.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
Boring (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
Boring (n.) A hole made by boring.
Boring (n.) The chips or fragments made by boring.
Born (v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.