Bot (n.) See Bots.
Botanic (a.) Alt. of Botanical
Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
Botanist (n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
Botanized (imp. & p. p.) of Botanize
Botanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Botanize
Botanize (v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
Botanize (v. t.) To explore for botanical purposes.
Botanizer (n.) One who botanizes.
Botanologer (n.) A botanist.
Botanology (n.) The science of botany.
Botanomancy (n.) An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.
Botanies (pl. ) of Botany
Botany (a. & n.) The 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 denomination. See Plant.
Botany (a. & n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.
Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.
Botargo (n.) A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
Botches (pl. ) of Botch
Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Botch (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
Botch (n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
Botched (imp. & p. p.) of Botch
Botching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Botch
Botch (n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.
Botch (n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
Botch (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
Botchedly (adv.) In a clumsy manner.
Botcher (n.) One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
Botcher (n.) A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
Botcher (n.) A young salmon; a grilse.
Botcherly (a.) Bungling; awkward.
Botchery (n.) A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
Botchy (a.) Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.
Bote (n.) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
Bote (n.) Payment of any kind.
Bote (n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
Boteless (a.) Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.
Botfly (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
Both (a. or pron.) The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
Both (conj.) As well; not only; equally.
Bothered (imp. & p. p.) of Bother
Bothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bother
Bother (v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
Bother (v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
Bother (n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
Botheration (n.) The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
Botherer (n.) One who bothers.
Bothersome (a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Both-hands (n.) A factotum.
Bothie (n.) Same as Bothy.
Bothnian (a.) Alt. of Bothnic
Bothnic (a.) Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.
Bothrenchyma (n.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
-ies (pl. ) of Boothy
Bothy (n.) Alt. of Boothy
Boothy (n.) A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.
Botocudos (n. pl.) A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbores.
Bo tree () The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.
Botryogen (n.) A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.
Botryoid (a.) Alt. of Botryoidal
Botryoidal (a.) Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
Botryolite (n.) A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
Botryose (a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes.
Botryose (a.) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
Bots (n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.
Bottine (n.) A small boot; a lady's boot.
Bottine (n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
Bottle (n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
Bottle (n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
Bottle (n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Bottled (imp. & p. p.) of Bottle
Bottling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bottle
Bottle (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
Bottle (n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.
Bottled (a.) Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.
Bottled (a.) Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.
Bottle green () A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
Bottlehead (n.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.
Bottleholder (n.) One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.
Bottleholder (n.) One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.
Bottle-nose (n.) A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
Bottle-nose (n.) The puffin.
Bottle-nosed (a.) Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
Bottler (n.) One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
Bottlescrew (n.) A corkscrew.
Bottling (n.) The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.
Bottom (n.) The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
Bottom (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
Bottom (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
Bottom (n.) The fundament; the buttocks.
Bottom (n.) An abyss.
Bottom (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
Bottom (n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
Bottom (n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Bottom (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
Bottomed (imp. & p. p.) of Bottom
Bottoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bottom
Bottom (v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.