BOCAQUE — BONA-ROBA

BOCAQUE — BONA-ROBA NWAD BOCAQUE.1

BOCAQUE or BOCAKE, n. An animal found on the banks of the Nieper, resembling a rabbit, except that its ears are shorter, and it has no tail. NWAD BOCAQUE.1

BOCASINE, n. A sort of fine linen or buckram. NWAD BOCASINE.1

BOCE, n. The sparus, a beautiful fish. NWAD BOCE.1

BOCKELET, BOCKERET, n. A kind of long-winged hawk. NWAD BOCKELET.1

BODE, v.t. To portend; to foreshow; to presage; to indicate something future by signs; to be the omen of; most generally applied to things; as, our vices bode evil to the country. NWAD BODE.1

BODE, v.i. To foreshow; to presage. NWAD BODE.2

This bodes well to you. NWAD BODE.3

BODE, n. An omen. NWAD BODE.4

1. A stop. NWAD BODE.5

BODEMENT, n. An omen; portent; prognostic; a fore-showing. NWAD BODEMENT.1

BODGE, v.i. [See Boggle.] To boggle; to stop. [Not used.] NWAD BODGE.1

BODGE, n. A botch. [Not used.] NWAD BODGE.2

BODICE, n. Stays; a waistcoat, quilted with whalebone; worn by women. NWAD BODICE.1

BODIED, a. [from body.] Having a body. NWAD BODIED.1

BODILESS, a. [See Body.] Having no body or material form; incorporeal. NWAD BODILESS.1

BODILY, a. Having or containing a body or material form; corporeal; as bodily dimensions. NWAD BODILY.1

1. Relating or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind; as bodily defects; bodily pain. NWAD BODILY.2

2. Real; actual; as bodily act. NWAD BODILY.3

BODILY, adv. Corporeally; united with a body or matter. NWAD BODILY.4

It is his human nature, in which the Godhead dwells bodily. NWAD BODILY.5

BODING, ppr. [from bode.] Foreshowing; presaging. NWAD BODING.1

BODING, n. An omen. NWAD BODING.2

BODKIN, n. [Gr. a thorn.] NWAD BODKIN.1

1. An instrument of steel; bone, ivory or the like, with a small blade, and a sharp point, for making holes by piercing. A like instrument with an eye, for drawing thread, tape, or ribin through a loop, etc. An instrument to dress the hair. NWAD BODKIN.2

2. A dagger. [Not in use.] NWAD BODKIN.3

BODLEIAN, a. Pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, who founded a celebrated library in the 16th century. NWAD BODLEIAN.1

BODY, n. NWAD BODY.1

1. The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man. NWAD BODY.2

Be not anxious for your body. NWAD BODY.3

2. Matter, as opposed to spirit. NWAD BODY.4

3. A person; a human being; sometimes alone; more generally, with some or no; as, somebody; nobody. NWAD BODY.5

4. Reality, as opposed to representation. NWAD BODY.6

A shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. Colossians 2:17. NWAD BODY.7

5. A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. Christians united or the Church is called the body, of which each Christian is a member, and Christ the head. 1 Corinthians 12:12-27. NWAD BODY.8

6. The main army, in distinction from the wings, van or rear. Also, any number of forces under one commander. NWAD BODY.9

7. A corporation; a number of men, united by a common tie, by one form of government, or by occupation; as the legislative body; the body of the clergy; body corporate; body politic. NWAD BODY.10

8. The main part; the bulk; as the body of a tree; the body of a coach, of a ship, etc. NWAD BODY.11

9. Any extended solid substance; matter; any substance or mass distinct from others; as a metaline body; a floating body; a moving body; a light body; a heavy body. NWAD BODY.12

10. A pandect; a general collection; a code; a system; as a body of laws; a body of divinity. NWAD BODY.13

11. Strength; as wine of a good body. NWAD BODY.14

12. Among painters, colors bear a body, when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. NWAD BODY.15

13. The unrenewed part of man, or sensual affections. NWAD BODY.16

But I keep under by body. 1 Corinthians 9:27. NWAD BODY.17

14. The extent; the limits. NWAD BODY.18

Cause to come here on such a day, twelve free and lawful men--from the body of your county. NWAD BODY.19

BODY, v.t. To produce in some form. NWAD BODY.20

Imagination bodies forth the forms of things. NWAD BODY.21

BODY-CLOTHES, n. plu. [body and cloth.] NWAD BODY-CLOTHES.1

Clothing or covering for the body, as for a horse. NWAD BODY-CLOTHES.2

BODY-GUARD, n. The guard that protects or defense the person; the life guard. Hence, security. NWAD BODY-GUARD.1

BOG, n. NWAD BOG.1

1. A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh, and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spongy land, upon the surface, but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed. NWAD BOG.2

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.] NWAD BOG.3

BOG, v.t. To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire. NWAD BOG.4

BOG-BEAN, n. [bog and bean; called buck-bean.] NWAD BOG-BEAN.1

Menyanthes, a plant, the marsh-trefoil, which grows in moist and marshy places. NWAD BOG-BEAN.2

BOG-BERRY, n. [bog and berry.] Vaccinium, a name of the cranberry growing in low lands and marshy places. NWAD BOG-BERRY.1

BOGGLE, v.i. NWAD BOGGLE.1

1. To doubt; to hesitate; to stop, as if afraid to proceed, or as if impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to play fast and loose. We boggle at every unusual appearance. NWAD BOGGLE.2

2. To dissemble. NWAD BOGGLE.3

BOGGLE, v.t. To embarrass with difficulties; a popular or vulgar use of the word in the United States. NWAD BOGGLE.4

BOGGLED, pp. Perplexed and impeded by sudden difficulties; embarrassed. NWAD BOGGLED.1

BOGGLER, n. A doubter; a timorous man. NWAD BOGGLER.1

BOGGLING, ppr. Starting or stopping at difficulties; hesitating. NWAD BOGGLING.1

BOGGLISH, a. Doubtful. [Not used.] NWAD BOGGLISH.1

BOGGY, a. [from bog.] Containing bogs; full of bogs. NWAD BOGGY.1

BOGHOUSE, n. [bog and house.] A house of office. NWAD BOGHOUSE.1

BOG-LAND, a. [bog and land.] Living in or pertaining to a marshy country. NWAD BOG-LAND.1

BOGLE, BOGGLE, n. A bugbear. NWAD BOGLE.1

BOG-ORE, n. An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land. NWAD BOG-ORE.1

BOG-RUSH, n. [bog and rush.] A rush that grows in bogs, the Schoenus. NWAD BOG-RUSH.1

1. A bird, a species of warbler, of the size of a wren, of a testaceous brown color, seen among the bog-rushes of Schonen in Sweden. NWAD BOG-RUSH.2

BOG-SPAVIN, n. [bog and spavin.] In horses, an encysted tumor on the inside of the hough, containing a gelatinous matter. NWAD BOG-SPAVIN.1

BOG-TROTTER, n. [bog and trot.] One who lives in a boggy country. NWAD BOG-TROTTER.1

BOG-WHORT, n. [bog and whort.] The bilberry or whortleberry growing in low lands. NWAD BOG-WHORT.1

BOHEA, n. A species of coarse or low priced tea from China; a species of black tea. NWAD BOHEA.1

BOIAR or BOYAR, n. In the Russian Empire, a nobleman; a lord; a person of quality; a soldier. This word answers nearly to Baron in Great Britain, and other countries in the west of Europe. NWAD BOIAR.1

BOIARIN, n. In Russia, a gentleman; a person of distinction; the master of a family. NWAD BOIARIN.1

BOLGUACU, n. The largest of the serpent kind, and said to be forty feet long. NWAD BOLGUACU.1

BOIL, v.i. [L. bullio, bulla, a bubble.] NWAD BOIL.1

1. To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils. In a chimical sense, to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor, with a bubbling motion. NWAD BOIL.2

2. To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam. NWAD BOIL.3

3. To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger. NWAD BOIL.4

4. To be in boiling water; to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose. NWAD BOIL.5

5. To bubble; to effervesce; as a mixture of acid and alkali. To boil away, to evaporate by boiling. NWAD BOIL.6

To boil over, is to run over the top of a vessel, as liquor when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence. NWAD BOIL.7

BOIL, v.t. To dress or cook in boiling water; to seethe; to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling. NWAD BOIL.8

1. To prepare for some use in boiling liquor; as, to boil silk, thread or cloth. To form by boiling and evaporation. This word is applied to a variety of processes for different purposes; as, to boil salt, or sugar, etc. In general, boiling is a violent agitation, occasioned by heat; to boil a liquor is to subject it to heat till it bubbles, and to boil any solid substance is to subject it to heat in a boiling liquid. NWAD BOIL.9

BOIL, n. A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling. NWAD BOIL.10

BOILED, pp. Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of boiling liquor. NWAD BOILED.1

BOILER, n. A person who boils. NWAD BOILER.1

1. A vessel in which any thing is boiled. A large pan, or vessel of iron, copper or brass, used in distilleries, pot-ash works and the like, for boiling large quantities of liquor at once. NWAD BOILER.2

BOILERY, n. A place for boiling and the apparatus. NWAD BOILERY.1

BOILING, ppr. Bubbling; heaving in bubbles; being agitated as boiling liquor; swelling with heat, ardor or passion; dressing or preparing for some purpose by hot water. NWAD BOILING.1

BOILING, n. The act or state of bubbling; agitation by heat; ebullition; the act of dressing by hot water; the act of preparing by hot water, or of evaporating by heat. NWAD BOILING.2

BOIOBI, n. A green snake, found in America, an ell in length, called by the Portuguese, cobra de verb. It is harmless, unless provoked; but its bite is noxious. NWAD BOIOBI.1

BOISTEROUS, a. NWAD BOISTEROUS.1

1. Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; as a boisterous wind. NWAD BOISTEROUS.2

2. Turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; as a boisterous man. NWAD BOISTEROUS.3

3. Large; unwieldy; huge; clumsily violent; as a boisterous club. NWAD BOISTEROUS.4

4. Violent; as a boisterous heat. NWAD BOISTEROUS.5

BOISTEROUSLY, adv. Violently; furiously; with loud noise; tumultuously. NWAD BOISTEROUSLY.1

BOISTEROUSNESS, n. The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness. NWAD BOISTEROUSNESS.1

BOITIAPO, n. A Brazilian serpent, about eight feet long, covered with triangular scales, of an olive or yellowish color, whose bite is mortal. NWAD BOITIAPO.1

BOLARY, a. [See Bole.] Pertaining to bole or clay, or partaking of its nature and qualities. NWAD BOLARY.1

BOLBITINE, a. An epithet given to one of the channels of the Nile, by which its waters are discharged into the Mediterranean. It is the second from West to East, but nearly filled with sand. NWAD BOLBITINE.1

BOLD, a. NWAD BOLD.1

1. Daring; courageous; brave; intrepid; fearless; applied to men or other animals; as, bold as a lion. NWAD BOLD.2

2. Requiring courage in the execution; executed with spirit or boldness; planned with courage and spirit; as a bold enterprise. NWAD BOLD.3

3. Confident; not timorous. NWAD BOLD.4

We were bold in our God to speak to you. 1 Thessalonians 2:2. NWAD BOLD.5

4. In an ill sense, rude, forward, impudent. NWAD BOLD.6

5. Licentious; showing great liberty of fiction or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold. NWAD BOLD.7

6. Standing out to view; striking to the eye; as bold figures in painting, sculpture and architecture. NWAD BOLD.8

7. Steep; abrupt; prominent; as a bold shore, which enters the water almost perpendicularly, so that ships can approach near to land without danger. NWAD BOLD.9

Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. NWAD BOLD.10

To make bold, to take freedoms; a common, but not a correct phrase. To be bold is better. NWAD BOLD.11

BOLD, v.t. To make daring. [Not used.] NWAD BOLD.12

BOLDEN, v.t. To make bold; to give confidence. This is nearly disused; being superseded by embolden. NWAD BOLDEN.1

BOLD-FACE, n. [bold and face.] Impudence; sauciness; a term of reprehension, and reproach. NWAD BOLD-FACE.1

BOLD-FACED, a. Impudent. NWAD BOLD-FACED.1

BOLDLY, adv. In a bold matter; courageously; intrepidly; without timidity or fear; with confidence. Sometimes, perhaps, in a bad sense, for impudently. NWAD BOLDLY.1

BOLDNESS, n. Courage; bravery; intrepidity; spirit; fearlessness. I cannot, with Johnson, interpret this word by fortitude or magnanimity. Boldness does not, I think, imply the firmness of mind, which constitutes fortitude, nor the elevation and generosity of magnanimity. NWAD BOLDNESS.1

1. Prominence; the quality of exceeding the ordinary rules of scrupulous nicety and caution; applied to style, expression, and metaphors in language; and to figures in painting, sculpture and architecture. NWAD BOLDNESS.2

2. Freedom from timidity; liberty. NWAD BOLDNESS.3

Great is my boldness of speech towards you. 2 Corinthians 7:4. NWAD BOLDNESS.4

3. Confidence; confident trust. NWAD BOLDNESS.5

We have boldness and access with confidence. Ephesians 3:12. NWAD BOLDNESS.6

4. Freedom from bashfulness; assurance; confident mien. NWAD BOLDNESS.7

5. Prominence; steepness; as the boldness of the shore. NWAD BOLDNESS.8

6. Excess of freedom, bordering on impudence. NWAD BOLDNESS.9

BOLE, n. NWAD BOLE.1

1. The body, or stem of a tree. [Not in use.] NWAD BOLE.2

2. A measure of corn, containing six bushels. NWAD BOLE.3

BOLE, n. A kind of fine clay, often highly colored by iron. Its color is reddish yellow of various shades, often with a tinge of brown, sometimes passing to reddish, yellowish, or blackish brown, flesh red, or yellowish white. It is opake or a little translucid, especially at the edges, in the red and yellow varieties. It is compact and its fracture conchoidal. It is brittle, smooth, a little unctuous, and receives a polish from the finger nail. It adheres to the tongue, melts by degrees in the mouth and impresses a slight sense of astringency. NWAD BOLE.4

Armenian bole is of a bright red color, with a tinge of yellow, harder than the other kinds, and of a rough dusty surface. NWAD BOLE.5

Bole of Blois is yellow, lighter than the other kinds, and it effervesces with acids. NWAD BOLE.6

Bohemian bole is of a yellow color, with a cast of red, and of a flaky texture. NWAD BOLE.7

French bole is of a pale red color, variegated with specks of white and yellow. NWAD BOLE.8

Lemnian bole is of a pale red color. NWAD BOLE.9

Silesian bole is of a pale yellow color. NWAD BOLE.10

BOLETIC, a. Boletic acid is the acid of Boletus, a genus of mushrooms. NWAD BOLETIC.1

BOLETUS, n. [L.] A genus of mushrooms, containing many species. NWAD BOLETUS.1

BOLIS, n. [L. from Gr., a dart; to throw.] NWAD BOLIS.1

A fire-ball darting through the air, followed by a train of light or sparks. NWAD BOLIS.2

BOLL, n. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax; a pericarp. Bole, a measure of six bushels, is sometimes written in this manner. NWAD BOLL.1

BOLL, v.i. To form into a pericarp or seed-vessel. NWAD BOLL.2

The barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled. Exodus 9:31. NWAD BOLL.3

Heb., Gr., as translated by the seventy. NWAD BOLL.4

Bollard timbers, in a ship, or knight-heads, are two timbers, rising just within the stem, one on each side of the bowsprit, to secure its end. NWAD BOLL.5

In docks, bollards are large posts set in the ground on each side, to which are lashed large blocks, through which are reeved the transporting hawsers for docking and undocking ships. NWAD BOLL.6

BOLOGNIAN STONE. Bolo’nain stone. Radiated sulphate of barytes; found in roundish masses, composed of radiating fibers; first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent, when calcined. NWAD BOLOGNIAN_STONE.1

BOLSTER, n. NWAD BOLSTER.1

1. A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of persons lying on a bed; generally laid under the pillows. NWAD BOLSTER.2

2. A pad, or quilt, used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part a compress. NWAD BOLSTER.3

3. In sadlery, a part of a saddle raised upon the bows or hinder part, to hold the rider’s thigh. NWAD BOLSTER.4

4. In ships, a cushion or bag, filled with tarred canvas, used to preserve the stays from being worn or chafed by the masts. NWAD BOLSTER.5

BOLSTER, v.t. To support with a bolster, pillow or any soft pad or quilt. NWAD BOLSTER.6

1. To support; to hold up; to maintain. NWAD BOLSTER.7

2. To afford a bed to. NWAD BOLSTER.8

BOLSTERED, a. Swelled out. NWAD BOLSTERED.1

BOLSTERER, n. A supporter. NWAD BOLSTERER.1

BOLSTERING, n. A prop or support. NWAD BOLSTERING.1

BOLT, n. [L. pello.] NWAD BOLT.1

1. An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft. NWAD BOLT.2

2. A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, etc. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts, chain-bolts, etc. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts. NWAD BOLT.3

3. A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt. NWAD BOLT.4

4. The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas. NWAD BOLT.5

BOLT, v.t. To fasten or secure with a bolt, or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else. NWAD BOLT.6

1. To fasten; to shackle; to restrain. NWAD BOLT.7

2. To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately. NWAD BOLT.8

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments. NWAD BOLT.9

In this sense it is often followed by out. NWAD BOLT.10

3. To sift or separate bran from flour. In America this term is applied only to the operation performed in mills. NWAD BOLT.11

4. Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys. NWAD BOLT.12

5. To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. “Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.” [Inelegant.] NWAD BOLT.13

6. To purify; to purge. [Unusual.] NWAD BOLT.14

7. To discuss or argue; as at Gray’s inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers. NWAD BOLT.15

BOLT, v.i. To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den. NWAD BOLT.16

BOLT-AUGER, n. [bolt and auger.] A large borer, used in ship-building. NWAD BOLT-AUGER.1

BOLT-BOAT, n. [bolt and boat.] A strong boat that will endure a rough sea. NWAD BOLT-BOAT.1

BOLTED, pp. Made a fast with a bolt; shot forth; sifted; examined. NWAD BOLTED.1

BOLTER, n. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour or the coarser part of meal from the finer. NWAD BOLTER.1

1. A kind of net. NWAD BOLTER.2

BOLT-HEAD, n. [bolt and head.] A long straight-necked glass vessel for chimical distillations, called also a matrass or receiver. NWAD BOLT-HEAD.1

BOLTING, ppr. Fastening with a bolt, or bolts; blurting out; shooting forth suddenly; separating bran from flour; sifting; examining; discussing; dislodging. NWAD BOLTING.1

BOLTING, n. The act of fastening with a bolt or bolts; a sifting; discussion. NWAD BOLTING.2

BOLTING-CLOTH, n. [bolt and cloth.] A linen or hair cloth of which bolters are made for sifting meal. NWAD BOLTING-CLOTH.1

BOLTING-HOUSE, n. [bolt and house.] The house or place where meal is bolted. NWAD BOLTING-HOUSE.1

BOLTING-HUTCH, n. A tub for bolted flour. NWAD BOLTING-HUTCH.1

BOLTING-MILL, n, [bolt and mill.] A machine or engine for sifting meal. NWAD BOLTING-MILL.1

BOLTING-TUB, n. A tub to sift meal in. NWAD BOLTING-TUB.1

BOLT-ROPE, n. [bolt and rope.] A rope to which the edges of sails are sewed to strengthen them. That part of it on the perpendicular side is called the leech-rope; that at the bottom, the foot-rope; that at the top, the head-rope. NWAD BOLT-ROPE.1

BOLT-SPRIT, n. [From the universal popular pronunciation of this word, this may have been the original word; but I doubt it. See. Bowspirit.] NWAD BOLT-SPRIT.1

BOLUS, n. [L. bolus; Gr. a mass.] A soft mass of any thing medicinal to be swallowed at once, like a pill. It may be of any ingredients, made a little thicker than honey. NWAD BOLUS.1

BOM, n. A large serpent found in America, of a harmless nature, and remarkable for uttering a sound like bom. NWAD BOM.1

BOMB, [L. bombus.] A great noise. NWAD BOMB.1

1. A large shell of cast iron, round and hollow, with a vent to receive a fusee, which is made of wood. This being filled with gunpowder and the fusee driven into the vent, the fusee is set on fire and the bomb is thrown from a mortar, in such a direction as to fall into a fort, city or enemy’s camp, when it bursts with great violence and often with terrible effect. The inventor of bombs is not known; they came into common use about the year 1634. NWAD BOMB.2

2. The stroke upon a bell. NWAD BOMB.3

BOMB, v.t. To attack with bombs; to bombard. [Not used.] NWAD BOMB.4

BOMB, v.i. To sound. NWAD BOMB.5

BOMBARD, n. [bomb and ard, kind.] NWAD BOMBARD.1

1. A piece of short thick ordnance with a large mouth, formerly used; some of them carrying a ball of three hundred pounds weight. It is called also basilisk, and by the Dutch, donderbuss, thunder-gun. But the thing and the name are no longer in use. NWAD BOMBARD.2

2. An attack with bombs; bombardment. NWAD BOMBARD.3

3. A barrel; a drinking vessel. NWAD BOMBARD.4

BOMBARD, v.t. To attack with bombs thrown from mortars. NWAD BOMBARD.5

BOMBARDED, pp. Attacked with bombs. NWAD BOMBARDED.1

BOMBARDIER, n. One whose business is to attend the loading and firing of mortars. NWAD BOMBARDIER.1

1. Carabus, a genus of insects of the beetle kind. NWAD BOMBARDIER.2

BOMBARDING, ppr. Attacking with shells or bombs. NWAD BOMBARDING.1

BOMBARDMENT, n. An attack with bombs; the act of throwing bombs into a town, fort or ship. NWAD BOMBARDMENT.1

BOMBARDO, n. A musical instrument of the wind kind, much like the bassoon, and used as a base to the hautboy. NWAD BOMBARDO.1

BOMBASIN, n. s as z. A name given to two sorts of stuffs, one of silk, the other crossed of cotton. NWAD BOMBASIN.1

BOMBAST, n. Originally a stuff of soft loose texture, used to swell garments. Hence, high sounding words; an inflated style; fustian; a serious attempt, by strained description, to raise a low or familiar subject beyond its rank, which, instead of being sublime, never fails to be ridiculous. NWAD BOMBAST.1

BOMBAST, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning. NWAD BOMBAST.2

BOMBASTIC, a. Swelled; high sounding; bombast. NWAD BOMBASTIC.1

BOMBASTRY, n. Swelling words without much meaning; fustian. NWAD BOMBASTRY.1

BOMB-CHEST, n. [bomb and chest.] A chest filled with bombs or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to make destruction by its displosion. NWAD BOMB-CHEST.1

BOMBIAT, n. A salt formed by the bombic acid and any base saturated. NWAD BOMBIAT.1

BOMBIC, a. [L. bombyx, a silk worm.] NWAD BOMBIC.1

Pertaining to the silk worm; as bombic acid. NWAD BOMBIC.2

BOMBILATION, n. [L. bombilo.] Sound; report; noise. [Little used.] NWAD BOMBILATION.1

BOMB-KETCH, BOMB-VESSEL, n. A small ship or vessel, constructed for throwing bombs into a fortress from the sea, and built remarkably strong, in order to sustain the shocks produced by the discharge of the mortars. They generally are rigged as ketches. NWAD BOMB-KETCH.1

BOMBYCINOUS, a. [L. bombycinus, from bombyx, a silk worm.] NWAD BOMBYCINOUS.1

1. Silken; made of silk. NWAD BOMBYCINOUS.2

2. Being of the color of the silk worm; transparent, with a yellow tint. NWAD BOMBYCINOUS.3