Bound (p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.
Bound (v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
Boundaries (pl. ) of Boundary
Boundary (n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
Bounden (p. p & a.) Bound; fastened by bonds.
Bounden (p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.
Bounden (p. p & a.) Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
Bounder (n.) One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
Bounding (a.) Moving with a bound or bounds.
Boundless (a.) Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.
Bounteous (a.) Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.
Bountiful (a.) Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
Bountiful (a.) Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.
Bountihead (n.) Alt. of Bountyhood
Bountyhood (n.) Goodness; generosity.
Bounties (pl. ) of Bounty
Bounty (n.) Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
Bounty (n.) Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
Bounty (n.) That which is given generously or liberally.
Bounty (n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
Bouquet (n.) A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.
Bouquet (n.) A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.
Bouquetin (n.) The ibex.
Bour (n.) A chamber or a cottage.
Bourbon (n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
Bourbon (n.) A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
Bourbonism (n.) The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
Bourbonist (n.) One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.
Bourbon whisky () See under Whisky.
Bourd (n.) A jest.
Bourd (v. i.) To jest.
Bourder (n.) A jester.
Bourdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.
Bourdon (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
Bourdon (n.) A kind of organ stop.
Bourgeois (n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
Bourgeois (n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
Bourgeois (a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
Bourgeoisie (n.) The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
Bourgeon (v. i.) To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
Bouri (n.) A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
Bourn (v.) Alt. of Bourne
Bourne (v.) A stream or rivulet; a burn.
Bourn (n.) Alt. of Bourne
Bourne (n.) A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
Bournless (a.) Without a bourn or limit.
Bournonite (n.) A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
Bournous (n.) See Burnoose.
Bourree (n.) An old French dance tune in common time.
Bourse (n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
Bouse (v. i.) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
Bouse (n.) Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.
Bouser (n.) A toper; a boozer.
Boustrophedon (n.) An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
Boustrophedonic (a.) Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
Boustorphic (a.) Boustrophedonic.
Bousy (a.) Drunken; sotted; boozy.
Bout (n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
Bout (n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Boutefeu (n.) An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
Boutonniere (n.) A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
Bouts-rimes (n. pl.) Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
Bovate (n.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
Bovid (a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
Boviform (a.) Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
Bovine (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
Bovine (a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
Bowed (imp. & p. p.) of Bow
Bowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bow
Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Bow (v. t.) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
Bow (v. t.) To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
Bow (v. t.) To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
Bow (v. i.) To bend; to curve.
Bow (v. i.) To stop.
Bow (v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
Bow (v. i.) To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
Bow (n.) An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
Bow (v. t.) Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
Bow (v. t.) A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
Bow (v. t.) An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
Bow (v. t.) The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
Bow (v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
Bow (v. t.) An arcograph.
Bow (v. t.) Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
Bow (v. t.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
Bow (sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
Bowed (imp. & p. p.) of Bow
Bowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bow
Bow (v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.
Bow (v. i. ) To manage the bow.
Bow (n.) The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
Bow (n.) One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
Bowable (a.) Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.
Bowbell (n.) One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
Bow-bells (n. pl.) The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.
Bowbent (a.) Bent, like a bow.