BONAIR — BORAX NWAD BONAIR.1

BONAIR, a. [L. bonus.] Complaisant; yielding. [Not used.] NWAD BONAIR.1

BONASUS, n. [L.] A species of Bos, or wild ox, with a long mane; a native of Asia and Africa. It is of the size of a bull. NWAD BONASUS.1

BON-CHRETIEN, n. A species of pear. NWAD BON-CHRETIEN.1

BOND, n. NWAD BOND.1

1. Anything that binds, as a cord, a chain, a rope; a band. NWAD BOND.2

2. Ligament; that which holds things together. NWAD BOND.3

3. Union; connection; a binding. NWAD BOND.4

Let walls be so constructed as to make a good bond. NWAD BOND.5

4. In the plural, chains; imprisonment; captivity. NWAD BOND.6

He hath done nothing worthy of death or of bonds. Acts. NWAD BOND.7

5. Cause of union; cement which unites; link of connection; as the bonds of affection. NWAD BOND.8

Charity is the bond of perfectness. Colossians 3:14. NWAD BOND.9

6. An obligation imposing a moral duty, as by a vow, or promise, by law or other means. NWAD BOND.10

7. In law, an obligation or deed by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum, on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that ;if the obligor shall do a certain act, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. NWAD BOND.11

BOND, a. [for bound.] In a state of servitude, or slavery; captive. NWAD BOND.12

Whether we be Jews or Gentiles; whether we be bond or free. 1 Corinthians 12:13. NWAD BOND.13

BOND, v.t. To give bond for; as for duties or customs at a custom house; to secure payment of, by giving a bond. NWAD BOND.14

On their reshipment and exportation, official clearances were given, in which no mention was made that the cargo consisted of bonded or debentured goods. NWAD BOND.15

In the U. States, it is applied to the goods on which the customs arise, and to the duties secured by bond. NWAD BOND.16

BONDAGE, n. Slavery or involuntary servitude; captivity; imprisonment; restraint of a person’s liberty by compulsion. In ancient English law, villenage. NWAD BONDAGE.1

1. Obligation; tie of duty. NWAD BONDAGE.2

He must resolve not to be brought under the bondage of observing oaths. NWAD BONDAGE.3

2. In scripture, spiritual subjection to sin and corrupt passions, or to the yoke of the ceremonial law; servile fear. Hebrews 2:15; Galatians 2:4; Romans 8:15, 21. NWAD BONDAGE.4

BONDED, pp. Secured by bond, as duties. Bonded goods are those for the duties on which bonds are given at the custom house. NWAD BONDED.1

BONDMAID, n. [bond and maid.] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, in opposition to a hired servant. NWAD BONDMAID.1

BONDMAN, n. [bond and man.] A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. In old English law, a villain, or tenant in villenage. NWAD BONDMAN.1

BONDSERVANT, n. [bond and servant.] A slave; one who is subjected to the authority of another, or whose person and liberty are restrained. NWAD BONDSERVANT.1

BONDSERVICE, n. [bond and service.] The condition of a bond-servant; slavery. NWAD BONDSERVICE.1

BONDSLAVE, n. [bond and slave.] A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master. NWAD BONDSLAVE.1

BONDSMAN, n. [bond and man.] A slave. NWAD BONDSMAN.1

1. A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. NWAD BONDSMAN.2

BONDSWOMAN, BOND-WOMAN, n. [bond and woman.] A woman slave. NWAD BONDSWOMAN.1

BONDUC, n. A species of Guilandina, or nickar tree, the yellow nickar, a climbing plant, a native of the West Indies, bearing a pod containing two hard seeds of the size of a child’s marble. NWAD BONDUC.1

BONE, n. NWAD BONE.1

1. A firm hard substance of a dull white color, composing some part of the frame of an animal body. The bones of an animal support all the softer parts, as the flesh and vessels. They vary in texture in different bones, and in different parts of the same bone. The long bones are compact in their middle portion, with a central cavity occupied by a network of plates and fibers, and cellular or spongy at the extremities. The flat bones are compact externally, and cellular internally. The bones in a fetus are soft and cartilaginous, but they gradually harden with age. The ends of the long bones are larger than the middle, which renders the articulations more firm, and in the fetus are distinct portions, called epiphyses. Bones are supplied with blood vessels, and in the fetus, or in a diseased state, are very vascular. They are probably also furnished with nerves and absorbents, though less easily detected in a sound state. They are covered with a thin, strong membrane, called the periosteum, which, together with the bones, has very little sensibility in a sound state, but when inflamed, is extremely sensible. Their cells and cavities are occupied by a fatty substance, called the medulla or marrow. They consist of earthy matter, rather more than half, gelatin, one sixteenth, and cartilage, about one third of the whole. The earthy matter gives them their solidity, and consists of phosphate of lime, with a small portion of carbonate of lime and phosphate of magnesia. NWAD BONE.2

2. A piece of bone, with fragments of meat adhering to it. NWAD BONE.3

To be upon the bones, is to attack. [Little used, and vulgar.] NWAD BONE.4

To make no bones, is to make no scruple; a metaphor taken from a dog who greedily swallows meat that has no bones. NWAD BONE.5

Bones, a sort of bobbins, made of trotter bones, for weaving lace; also dice. NWAD BONE.6

BONE, v.t. To take out bones from the flesh, as in cookery. NWAD BONE.7

1. To put whale bone into stays. NWAD BONE.8

BONE-ACE, n. [bone and ace.] A game at cards, in which he who has the highest card turned up to him, wins the bone, that is, one half the state. NWAD BONE-ACE.1

BONE-ACHE, n. Pain in the bones. NWAD BONE-ACHE.1

BONED, pp. Deprived of bones, as in cookery. NWAD BONED.1

BONED, a. Having bones; used in composition; as high-boned; strong-boned. NWAD BONED.2

BONELACAE, n. [bone and lace.] A lace made of linen thread, so called because made with bobbins of bone, or for its stiffness. NWAD BONELACAE.1

BONELESS, a. Without bones; wanting bones; as boneless gums. NWAD BONELESS.1

BONE-SET, v.t. [bone and set.] To set a dislocated bone; to unite broken bones. NWAD BONE-SET.1

BONE-SET, n. A plant, the thorough-wort, a species of Eupatorium. NWAD BONE-SET.2

BONE-SETTER, n. [bone and set.] One whose occupation is to set, and restore broken and dislocated bones. NWAD BONE-SETTER.1

BONE-SETTING, n. That branch of surgery which consists in replacing broken and luxated bones; the practice of setting bones. NWAD BONE-SETTING.1

BONE-SPAVIN, n. [bone and spavin.] A bony excrescence, or hard swelling, on the inside of the hock of a horse’s leg; usually cured by blistering and firing, or caustic blisters. NWAD BONE-SPAVIN.1

BONETTA, n. A sea fish. NWAD BONETTA.1

BONFIRE, n. A fire made as an expression of public joy and exultation. NWAD BONFIRE.1

BONGRACE, n. A covering for the forehead. NWAD BONGRACE.1

BONIFY, v.t. To convert into good. [Not used.] NWAD BONIFY.1

BONITO, n. A fish of the tunny kind, growing to the length of three feet, and found on the American coast, and in the tropical climates. It has a greenish back, and a white silvery belly. NWAD BONITO.1

BONMOT, n. A jest; a witty repartee. This word is not anglicized, and may be pronounced bomo. NWAD BONMOT.1

BONNET, n. NWAD BONNET.1

1. A covering for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. The word, as now used, signifies a cover for the head, worn by females, close at the sides, and projecting over the forehead. NWAD BONNET.2

2. In fortification, a small work with two faces, having only a parapet, with two rows of palisades about 10 or 12 feet distant. Generally it is raised above the salient angle of the counterscarp, and communicates with the covered way. NWAD BONNET.3

Bonnet a pretre, or priest’s bonnet, is an outwork, having at the head three salient angles and two inwards. NWAD BONNET.4

3. In sea language, an addition to sail, or an additional part laced to the foot of a sail, in small vessels, and in moderate winds. NWAD BONNET.5

BONNET-PEPPER, n. A species of Capsicum, or guinea pepper. NWAD BONNET-PEPPER.1

BONNIBEL, n. A handsome girl. NWAD BONNIBEL.1

BONNILASS, n. A beautiful girl. NWAD BONNILASS.1

BONNILY, adv. Gayly; handsomely; plumply. NWAD BONNILY.1

BONNINESS, n. Gayety; handsomeness; plumpness. [Little used.] NWAD BONNINESS.1

BONNY, a. [L. bonus.] NWAD BONNY.1

1. Handsome; beautiful. NWAD BONNY.2

Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. NWAD BONNY.3

2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. NWAD BONNY.4

Blithe and bonny. NWAD BONNY.5

3. In familiar language, plump, as plump and healthful persons are most inclined to mirth. NWAD BONNY.6

[This word is much used in Scotland.] NWAD BONNY.7

BONNY, n. Among miners, a bed of ore, differing from a squat in being round, whereas a squat is flat; or a distinct bed of ore, that communicates with no vein. NWAD BONNY.8

BONNY-CLABBER, n. A word used in Ireland for sour buttermilk. NWAD BONNY-CLABBER.1

It is used, in America, for any milk that is turned or become thick in the process of souring, and applied only to that part which is thick. NWAD BONNY-CLABBER.2

BONTEN, n. A narrow woolen stuff. NWAD BONTEN.1

BONUM MAGUM, [L] A species of plum. NWAD BONUM_MAGUM.1

BONUS, n. [L.] A premium given for a charter or other privilege granted to a company. NWAD BONUS.1

BONY, a. [from bone.] Consisting of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. NWAD BONY.1

1. Having large or prominent bones; stout; strong. NWAD BONY.2

BONZE, n. bon’zy. An Indian priest; a name used in China, Tunkin and the neighboring countries. In China, the Bonzes are the priests of the Fohists, or sect of Fohi. They are distinguished from the laity by their dress. In Japan, they are gentlemen of family. In Tunkin, every pagoda has at least two bonzes belonging to it, and some have thirty or forty. In China, the number of bonzes is estimated at fifty thousand, and they are represented as idle dissolute men. NWAD BONZE.1

BOOBY, n. NWAD BOOBY.1

1. A dunce; a stupid fellow; a lubber; one void of wisdom, or intellect. NWAD BOOBY.2

2. A fowl of the pelican genus, of a brown and white color, much varied in different individuals. This fowl is found among the Bahama isles, feeds upon fish and lays its eggs on the bare rocks. It has a joint in the upper mandible, by which it can raise it without opening the mouth. NWAD BOOBY.3

BOOK, n. [Like the Latin liber, book signifies primarily bark and beech, the tree being probably named from its bark.] NWAD BOOK.1

A general name of every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately, a printed composition bound; a volume. The name is given also to any number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts. NWAD BOOK.2

1. A particular part of a literary composition; a division of a subject in the same volume. NWAD BOOK.3

2. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. NWAD BOOK.4

In books, in kind remembrance; in favor. NWAD BOOK.5

I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp. NWAD BOOK.6

Without book, by memory; without reading; without notes; as, a sermon was delivered without book. This phrase is used also in the sense of without authority; as, a man asserts without book. NWAD BOOK.7

BOOK, v.t. To enter, write or register in a book. NWAD BOOK.8

BOOK-ACCOUNT, n. [book and account.] An account or register of debt or credit in a book. NWAD BOOK-ACCOUNT.1

BOOKBINDER, n. [book and bind.] One whose occupation is to bind books. NWAD BOOKBINDER.1

BOOKBINDING, n. The art or practice of binding books; or of sewing the sheets, and covering them with leather or other material. NWAD BOOKBINDING.1

BOOKED, pp. Written in a book; registered. NWAD BOOKED.1

BOOKFUL, a. [book and full.] Full of notions gleaned from books; crowded with undigested learning. NWAD BOOKFUL.1

BOOKING, ppr. Registering in a book. NWAD BOOKING.1

BOOKISH, a. Given to reading; fond of study; more acquainted with books than with men. NWAD BOOKISH.1

BOOKISHLY, adv. In the way of being addicted to books or much reading. NWAD BOOKISHLY.1

BOOKISHNESS, n. Addictedness to books; fondness for study. NWAD BOOKISHNESS.1

BOOK-KEEPER, n. [book and keep.] One who keeps accounts, or the accounts of another; the officer who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in a public office. NWAD BOOK-KEEPER.1

BOOK-KEEPING, n. [book and keep.] The art of recording mercantile transactions in a regular and systematic manner; the art of keeping accounts in such a manner, that a man may know the true state of his business and property, or of his debts and credits, by an inspection of his books. NWAD BOOK-KEEPING.1

The books for this purpose are, 1. a Waste Book, or blotter, in which are registered all accounts or transactions in the order in which they take place. 2. The Journal, which contains the accounts transferred from the waste book, in the same order, but expressed in a technical style; 3. the Leger, in which articles of the same kind are collected together, from the journal, and arranged under proper titles. NWAD BOOK-KEEPING.2

In addition to these, several others are used; as cash-book; book of charges of merchandize; book of house-expenses; invoice-book; sales-book; bill-book; receipt-book; letter-book; pocket-book; the use of which may be understood from the names. NWAD BOOK-KEEPING.3

BOCKLAND, n. [book and land.] In old English laws, charter land, held by deed under certain rents and free-services, which differed nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds. NWAD BOCKLAND.1

BOOKLEARNED, a. [book and learn.] Versed in books; acquainted with books and literature; a term sometimes implying an ignorance of men, or of the common concerns of life. NWAD BOOKLEARNED.1

BOOKLEARNING, n. Learning acquired by reading; acquaintance with books and literature; sometimes implying want of practical knowledge. NWAD BOOKLEARNING.1

BOOKLESS, a. [book and less.] Without books; unlearned. NWAD BOOKLESS.1

BOOKMAKING, n. The practice of writing and publishing books. NWAD BOOKMAKING.1

BOOKMAN, n. [book and man.] A man whose profession is the study of books. NWAD BOOKMAN.1

BOOKMATE, n. [book and mate.] A school-fellow. NWAD BOOKMATE.1

BOOKOATH, n. The oath made on the book, or Bible. NWAD BOOKOATH.1

BOOKSELLER, n. [book and sell.] One whose occupation is to see books. NWAD BOOKSELLER.1

BOOKSTORE, n. A shop where books are sold. NWAD BOOKSTORE.1

BOOKWORM, n. [book and worm.] A worm or mite that eats holes in books. NWAD BOOKWORM.1

1. A student closely attached to books, or addicted to study; also, a reader without judgment. NWAD BOOKWORM.2

BOOLEY, n. In Ireland, one who has not settled habitation, but wanders from place to place, with his flocks and herds, living on their milk, like the Tartars. NWAD BOOLEY.1

BOOM, n. A long pole or spar, run out from various parts of a ship, or other vessel, for the purpose of extending the bottom of particular sails; as the jib-boom, studding-sail boom, main-boom, square-sail boom, etc. NWAD BOOM.1

1. A strong iron chain, fastened to spars, and extended across a river, or the mouth of a harbor, to prevent an enemy’s ships from passing. NWAD BOOM.2

2. A pole set up as a mark to direct seamen how to keep the channel, in shallow water. NWAD BOOM.3

BOOM, v.i. NWAD BOOM.4

1. In marine language, to rush with violence, as a ship under a press of sail. NWAD BOOM.5

2. To swell; to roll and roar, as waves. NWAD BOOM.6

The hoarse waves booming to the ocean shore. NWAD BOOM.7

3. To cry as the bittern. NWAD BOOM.8

The Dutch use bom for the sound of an empty barrel, and bommen is to drum. NWAD BOOM.9

BOON, n. [L. bonus.] NWAD BOON.1

1. A gift; a grant; a benefaction; a present; a favor granted. NWAD BOON.2

2. A prayer, or petition. NWAD BOON.3

BOON, a. [L. bonus.] Gay; merry; kind; bountiful; as a boon companion. NWAD BOON.4

BOOPS, n. The pike-headed whale, with a double pipe in its snout, and a hard horny ridge on its back; so names from its sharp pointed nose. NWAD BOOPS.1

BOOR, n. A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a plowman; a clown; hence, one who is rude in manners, and illiterate. NWAD BOOR.1

BOORISH, a. Clownish; rustic; awkward in manners, and illiterate. NWAD BOORISH.1

BOORISHLY, adv. In a clownish manner. NWAD BOORISHLY.1

BOORISHNESS, n. Clownishness; rusticity, coarseness of manners. NWAD BOORISHNESS.1

BOOSE, n. [Heb. a stall or crib.] A stall or inclosure for an ox, cow or other cattle. [Not used or local.] NWAD BOOSE.1

BOOSE, BOUSE, v.i. booz. To drink hard; to guzzle. [Vulgar.] NWAD BOOSE.2

BOOSY, a. boo’zy. A little intoxicated; merry with liquor. [Vulgar.] NWAD BOOSY.1

BOOST, v.t. To lift or raise by pushing; to push up. [A common vulgar wood in N. England.] NWAD BOOST.1

BOOT, v.t. [Eng. but. The primary sense of the root is to advance, or carry forward.] NWAD BOOT.1

1. To profit; to advantage NWAD BOOT.2

It shall not boot them. NWAD BOOT.3

2. To enrich; to benefit. NWAD BOOT.4

I will boot thee. NWAD BOOT.5

BOOT, n. Profit; gain; advantage; that which is given to make the exchange equal, or to supply the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged. NWAD BOOT.6

1. To boot, in addition to; over and above; besides; a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered; as, I will give my house for yours, with one hundred dollars to boot. NWAD BOOT.7

2. Spoil; plunder. [See Booty.] NWAD BOOT.8

BOOT, n. NWAD BOOT.9

1. A covering for the leg, made of leather, and united with a shoe. This garment was originally intended for horsemen, but is now generally worn by gentlemen on foot. The different sorts are fishing-boots, worn in water; hunting-boots, a thinner kind for sportsmen; jack-boots, a strong kind for horsemen; and half-boots. NWAD BOOT.10

2. A kind or rack for the leg, formerly used to torture criminals. This was made of boards bound fast to the legs by cords; or a boot or buskin, made wet and drawn upon the legs and then dried by the fire, so as to contract and squeeze the legs. NWAD BOOT.11

3. A box covered with leather in the fore part of a coach. Also, an apron or leathern cover for a gig or chair, to defend persons from rain and mud. This latter application is local and improper. NWAD BOOT.12

BOOT, v.t. To put on boots. NWAD BOOT.13

BOOTCATCHER, n. [boot and catch.] The person at an inn whose business is to pull off boots. NWAD BOOTCATCHER.1

BOOTED, pp. Having boots on. NWAD BOOTED.1

BOOTEE, n. A word sometimes used for a half or short boot. NWAD BOOTEE.1

BOOTES, n. A northern constellation; consisting, according to Flamstead’s catalogue, of fifty-four stars. NWAD BOOTES.1

BOOTH, n. [Heb. beth, a house or booth, a nest for birds.] NWAD BOOTH.1

A house or shed built of boards, boughs of trees, or other slight materials, for a temporary residence. NWAD BOOTH.2

BOOT-HOSE, n. [boot and hose.] Stocking-hose or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. NWAD BOOT-HOSE.1

BOOTLEG, n. [boot and leg.] Leather cutout for the leg of a boot. NWAD BOOTLEG.1

BOOTLESS, a. [from boot.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. NWAD BOOTLESS.1

BOOTLESSLY, adv. Without use or profit. NWAD BOOTLESSLY.1

BOOT-TOPPING, n. [boot and top.] The operation of cleansing a ship’s bottom, near the surface of the water, by scraping off the grass, slime, shells, etc. and daubing it with a mixture of tallow, sulphur and rosin. NWAD BOOT-TOPPING.1

BOOT-TREE, BOOT-LAST, n. An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. NWAD BOOT-TREE.1

BOOTY, n. NWAD BOOTY.1

1. Spoil taken from an enemy in war; plunder; pillage. NWAD BOOTY.2

2. That which is seized by violence and robbery. NWAD BOOTY.3

To play booty is to play dishonestly with an intent to lose. NWAD BOOTY.4

BOPEEP, n. [bo, an exclamation, and peep.] The act of looking out or from behind something and drawing back, as children in play, for the purpose of frightening each other. NWAD BOPEEP.1

BORABLE, a. [See Bore.] That may be bored. [Little used.] NWAD BORABLE.1

BORACHIO, n. A drunkard. NWAD BORACHIO.1

1. A bottle or cask. [Not used.] NWAD BORACHIO.2

BORACIC, a. [See Borax.] Pertaining to or produced from borax. NWAD BORACIC.1

Boracic acid, a compound of a peculiar base, boron, with oxygen. It is generally obtained from borax, by adding sulfuric acid. It is also found native, in certain mineral springs in Italy. NWAD BORACIC.2

BORACITE, n. Borate of magnesia; magnesian earth combined with boracic acid. It is generally of a cubic form, and remarkable for its electrical properties when heated. NWAD BORACITE.1

BORACITED, a. Combined with boracic acid. NWAD BORACITED.1

BORACOUS ACID, n. The base of boracic acid, partially saturated with oxygen. NWAD BORACOUS_ACID.1

BORAGE, n. bur’rage. A plant of the genus Borago. NWAD BORAGE.1

BORATE, n. A salt formed by a combination of boracic acid with any base saturated. NWAD BORATE.1

BORAX, n. Sub-borate of soda; a salt formed by the combination of boracic acid with the marine alkali or soda. It is brought from the East Indies, where it is said to be found at the bottom or on the margin of certain lakes, particularly in Thibet. It is said to be artificially prepared in Persia, like niter. It comes in three states. 1. Crude borax, tinkal, or chrysocolla, from Persia, in greenish masses of a greasy feel, or in opake crystals. 2. Borax of China, somewhat purer, in small plates or masses, irregularly crystallized, and of a dirty white. 3. Dutch or purified borax, in portions of transparent crystals, which is the kind generally used. It is an excellent flux in docimastic operations, a styptic in medicine, and useful in soldering metals. NWAD BORAX.1