Bumper (n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
Bumper (n.) A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.
Bumper (n.) That which bumps or causes a bump.
Bumper (n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
Bumpkin (n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
Bumptious (a.) Self-conceited; forward; pushing.
Bumptiousness (n.) Conceitedness.
Bun (n.) Alt. of Bunn
Bunn (n.) A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.
Bunch (n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Bunch (n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
Bunch (n.) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
Bunched (imp. & p. p.) of Bunch
Bunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bunch
Bunch (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Bunch (v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.
Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Bunchberry (n.) The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
Bunch grass () A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
Bunchiness (n.) The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
Bunchy (a.) Swelling out in bunches.
Bunchy (a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
Bunchy (a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.
Buncombe (n.) Alt. of Bunkum
Bunkum (n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
Bund (n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.
Bunder (n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
Bundesrath (n.) The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
Bundle (n.) A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.
Bundled (imp. & p. p.) of Bundle
Bundling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bundle
Bundle (v. t.) To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
Bundle (v. t.) To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
Bundle (v. i.) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
Bundle (v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.
Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
Bung (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
Bung (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
Bunged (imp. & p. p.) of Bung
Bunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bung
Bung (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
Bungalow (n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.
Bungarum (n.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
Bunghole (n.) See Bung, n., 2.
Bungled (imp. & p. p.) of Bungle
Bungling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bungle
Bungle (v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
Bungle (v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
Bungle (n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
Bungler (n.) A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Bungling (a.) Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.
Bunglingly (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly.
Bungo (n.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.
Bunion (n.) Same as Bunyon.
Bunk (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
Bunk (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
Bunk (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
Bunked (imp. & p. p.) of Bunk
Bunking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bunk
Bunk (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
Bunker (n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
Bunker (n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
Bunko (n.) A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.
Bunkum (n.) See Buncombe.
Bunn (n.) See Bun.
Bunnian (n.) See Bunyon.
Bunny (n.) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.
Bunny (n.) A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
Bunodonta (n. pl.) Alt. of Bunodonts
Bunodonts (n. pl.) A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.
Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burner
Bunsen's burner () See under Battery, and Burner.
Bunt (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
Bunt (n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
Bunt (v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
Bunter (n.) A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
Bunting (n.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
Bunting (n.) Alt. of Buntine
Buntine (n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
Bunyon (n.) Alt. of Bunion
Bunion (n.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
Buoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Buoy
Buoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buoy
Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
Buoy (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Buoyage (n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
Buoyance (n.) Buoyancy.
Buoyancies (pl. ) of Buoyancy
Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
Buoyancy (n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.