1. To approach near to. NWAD BORDER.3
Wit, which borders upon profaneness, deserves to be branded as folly. NWAD BORDER.4
1. To reach to; to touch at the edge or end; to confine upon; to be contiguous to. NWAD BORDER.6
Sheba and Raamah border the Persian gulf. NWAD BORDER.7
2. To confine within bounds; to limit. [Not used.] NWAD BORDER.8
In old law, the demain land which a lord kept in his hands for the maintenance of his bord, board, or table. NWAD BORD-LAND.2
1. To perforate or penetrate a solid body and make a round hole by turning an auger, gimlet, or other instrument. Hence, to make hollow;; to form a round hole; as, to bore a cannon. NWAD BORE.2
2. To eat out or make a hollow by gnawing or corroding, as a worm. NWAD BORE.3
3. To penetrate or break through by turning or labor; as, to bore through a crowd. NWAD BORE.4
1. To pierce or enter by boring; as, an auger bores well. NWAD BORE.6
2. To push forward toward a certain point. NWAD BORE.7
Boring to the west. NWAD BORE.8
3. With horsemen, a horse bores, when he carries his nose to the ground. NWAD BORE.9
4. In a transitive or intransitive sense, to pierce the earth with scooping irons, which, when drawn out, bring with them samples of the different stratums, through which they pass. This is a method of discovering veins of ore and coal without opening a mine. NWAD BORE.10
1. Any instrument for making holes by boring or turning, as an auger, gimlet or wimble. NWAD BORE.12
A sudden influx of the tide into a river or narrow strait. NWAD BORE.14
1. Terebella, the piercer, a genus of sea worms, that pierce wood. NWAD BORER.2
1. To be born, is to be produced or brought into life. “Man is born to trouble.” A man born a prince or a beggar. It is followed by of, before the mother or ancestors. NWAD BORN.2
Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. Job 14:1. NWAD BORN.3
2. To be born, or born again, is to be regenerated and renewed; to receive spiritual life. John 3:3-8. NWAD BORN.4
Some writers have suggested that the application of this word to towns sprung from these associations, and of course was posterior to them in time. But the word was used for a town or castle in other nations, and in Asia, doubtless long before the origin of the frank pledge. NWAD BOROUGH.3
In Connecticut, this word, borough, is used for a town or a part of a town, or a village, incorporated with certain privileges, distinct from those of other towns and of cities; as the Borough of Bridgeport. NWAD BOROUGH.4
In Scotland, a borough is a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the Sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction. NWAD BOROUGH.5
Boroughs are erected to be held of the sovereign, as is generally the case of royal boroughs; or of the superior of the lands included, as in the case of boroughs of regality and barony. Royal boroughs are generally erected for the advantage of trade. NWAD BOROUGH.6
Boroughs English, is a customary descent of lands and tenements to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or if the owner leaves no son, to the youngest brother. NWAD BOROUGH.7
Borough English, is a customary descent of lands and tenements to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or if the owner leaves no son, to the youngest brother. NWAD BOROUGH.8
Borough-head, the same as head-borough, the chief of a borough. NWAD BOROUGH.9
1. To take from another by request and consent, with a view to use the thing taken for a time, and return it, or if the thing taken is to be consumed or transferred in the use, then to return an equivalent in kind; as, to borrow a book, a sum of money, or a loaf of bread. It is opposed to lend. NWAD BORROW.2
2. To take from another, for one’s own use; to copy or select from the writings of another author; as, to borrow a passage from a printed book; to borrow a title. NWAD BORROW.3
3. To take or adopt for one’s own use, sentiments, principles, doctrines and the like; as, to borrow instruction. NWAD BORROW.4
4. To take for use something that belongs to another; to assume, copy or imitate; as, to borrow a shape; to borrow the manners of another, or his style of writing. NWAD BORROW.5
But of your royal presence I’ll adventure. NWAD BORROW.7
The borrow of a week. NWAD BORROW.8
1. One who takes what belongs to another to use as one’s own. NWAD BORROWER.2
The head or chief of a tithing or burg of ten men;; the head-borough. NWAD BORSHOLDER.2
1. Wood; under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket. NWAD BOSCAGE.2
2. In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees. NWAD BOSCAGE.3
3. With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood. NWAD BOSCAGE.4
1. The breast of a human being and the parts adjacent. NWAD BOSOM.2
2. The folds or covering of clothes about the breast. NWAD BOSOM.3
Put thy hand in thy bosom. Exodus 4:6, 7. NWAD BOSOM.4
3. Embrace, as with the arms; inclosure; compass; often implying friendship or affection; as, to live in the bosom of a church. NWAD BOSOM.5
4. The breast, as inclosing the heart; or the interior of the breast, considered as the seat of the passions. NWAD BOSOM.6
Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9. NWAD BOSOM.7
Their soul was poured into their mother’s bosom. Lamentations 2:12. NWAD BOSOM.8
5. The breast, or its interior, considered as a close place, the receptacle of secrets. NWAD BOSOM.9
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job 31:33. NWAD BOSOM.10
6. Any inclosed place; the interior; as the bosom of the earth or of the deep. NWAD BOSOM.11
7. The tender affections; kindness; favor; as the son of his bosom; the wife of thy bosom. NWAD BOSOM.12
He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. Isaiah 40:11. NWAD BOSOM.13
8. The arms, or embrace of the arms. Psalm 129:7. NWAD BOSOM.14
9. Inclination; desire. [Not used.] NWAD BOSOM.15
Bosom, in composition, implies intimacy, affection and confidence; as a bosom-friend, an intimate or confidential friend; bosom-lover, bosom-interest, bosom-secret, etc. In such phrases, bosom may be considered as an attribute equivalent to intimate, confidential, dear. NWAD BOSOM.16
Bosom up my counsel. NWAD BOSOM.18
1. To conceal; to hide from view. NWAD BOSOM.19
To happy convents bosom’d deep in vines. NWAD BOSOM.20
The merry bosom. NWAD BOSON.2
The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute, and exterminated the Taurians. NWAD BOSPORIAN.2
A narrow sea or a strait, between two seas or between a sea and a lake, so called, it is supposed, as being an ox-passage, a strait over which an ox may swim. So our northern ancestors called a strait, a sound, that is, a swim. The term Bosporus has been particularly applied to the strait between the Propontis and the Euxine, called the Thracian Bosporus; and to the strait of Caffa, called the Cimmerian Bosporus, which connects the Palus Maeotis or sea of Azof, with the Euxine. NWAD BOSPORUS.2
1. A stud or knob; a protuberant ornament, of silver, ivory, or other material, used on bridles, harness, etc. NWAD BOSS.2
2. A protuberant part; a prominence; as the boss of a buckler. NWAD BOSS.3
3. A round or swelling body of any kind; as a boss of wood. NWAD BOSS.4
4. A water-conduit, in form of a tun-bellied figure. NWAD BOSS.5
1. A stone in a building which has a projecture, and is laid rough, to be afterwards carved into moldings, capitals, coats of arms, etc. NWAD BOSSAGE.2
2. Rustic work, consisting of stones which advance beyond the naked or level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings; chiefly in the corners of edifices, and called rustic quoins. The cavities are sometimes round, sometimes beveled or in a diamond form, sometimes inclosed with a cavetto, and sometimes with a listel. NWAD BOSSAGE.3
His head reclining on his bossy shield. NWAD BOSSY.2
The botanist is he who can affix similar names to similar vegetables, and different names to different ones, so as to be intelligible to every one. NWAD BOTANIST.2
He could not obtain permission to botanize upon mount Sabber. NWAD BOTANIZE.2
Or, botany is the science of the structure, functions, properties, habits and arrangement of plants, and of the technical characters by which they are distinguished. NWAD BOTANY.2
1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection. NWAD BOTCH.2
Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss. NWAD BOTCH.3
2. A patch, or the part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner; ill-finished work in mending. NWAD BOTCH.4
3. That which resembles a botch; a part added clumsily; adventitious or ill-applied words. NWAD BOTCH.5
If those words are not notorious botches, I am deceived. NWAD BOTCH.6
1. To put together unsuitable, or unskillfully; to make use of unsuitable pieces. NWAD BOTCH.8
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. NWAD BOTCH.9
2. To mark with botches. NWAD BOTCH.10
Young Hylas botched with stains. NWAD BOTCH.11
1. In law, compensation; amends; satisfaction; as manbote, a compensation for a man slain. Also, payment of any kind. NWAD BOTE.2
2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as house-bote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house or for fuel, sometimes called fire-bote; so plow-bote, cart-bote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay-bote or hedge-bote, wood for hedges or fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system. NWAD BOTE.3
This word is often placed before the nouns with which it is connected. NWAD BOTH.2
He understands how to manage both public and private concerns. NWAD BOTH.3
It is often used as a substitute for nouns. NWAD BOTH.4
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Genesis 21:27. NWAD BOTH.5
Both often represents two members of a sentence. NWAD BOTH.6
He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both. NWAD BOTH.7
Both often pertains to adjectives or attributes, and in this case generally precedes them in construction; as, he endeavored to render commerce both disadvantageous and infamous. NWAD BOTH.8
Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like grapes; as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small gloves. NWAD BOTRYOID.2
Literally, grape-stone. This mineral occurs in mammilliary or botryoidal concretions, in a bed of magnetic iron in gneiss, near Arendal in Norway. Its colors are pearl-gray, grayish or reddish white, and pale rose-red, and form concentric stripes. NWAD BOTRYOLITE.2
Botryolite is a variety of siliceous borate of lime. It is found near the Passaic falls in New Jersey. NWAD BOTRYOLITE.3
A species of small worms found in the intestines of horses. They are the larvas of a species of OEstrus or gad-fly, which deposits its eggs on the tips of the hairs, generally of the fore-legs and mane, whence they are taken into the mouth and swallowed. This word is also applied to the larvas of other species of OEstrus, found under the hides of oxen, in the nostrils of sheep, etc. NWAD BOTS.2
1. A hollow vessel of glass, wood, leather or other material, with a narrow mouth, for holding and carrying liquors. The oriental nations use skins or leather for the conveyance of liquors; and of this kind are the bottles mentioned in scripture. “Put new wine into bottles.” In Europe and America, glass is used for liquors of all kinds; and farmers use small cags or hollow vessels of wood. The small kinds of glass bottles are called vials or phials. NWAD BOTTLE.2
2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; but from the size of bottles used for wine, porter and cyder, a bottle is nearly a quart; as a bottle of wine or a porter. NWAD BOTTLE.3
3. A quantity of hay in a bundle; a bundle of hay. NWAD BOTTLE.4
1. Having a protuberant belly. NWAD BOTTLED.2
1. The lowest part of any thing; as the bottom of a well, vat or ship; the bottom of a hill. NWAD BOTTOM.2
2. The ground under any body of water; as the bottom of the sea, of a river or lake. NWAD BOTTOM.3
3. The foundation or ground work of any thing, as of an edifice, or of any system or moral subject; the base, or that which supports any superstructure. NWAD BOTTOM.4
4. A low ground; a dale; a valley; applied in the U. States to the flat lands adjoining rivers, etc. It is so used in some parts of England. NWAD BOTTOM.5
5. The deepest part; that which is most remote from the view; as, let us examine this subject to the bottom. NWAD BOTTOM.6
6. Bound; limit. NWAD BOTTOM.7
There is no bottom in my voluptuousness. NWAD BOTTOM.8
7. The utmost extent or depth of cavity, or of intellect, whether deep or shallow. NWAD BOTTOM.9
I do see the bottom of justice Shallow. NWAD BOTTOM.10
8. The foundation, considered as the cause, spring or origin; the first moving cause; as, a foreign prince is at the bottom of the confederacy. NWAD BOTTOM.11
9. A ship or vessel. Goods imported in foreign bottoms pay a higher duty, than those imported in our own. Hence, a state of hazard, chance or risk; but in this sense it is used chiefly or solely in the singular. We say, venture not too much in one bottom; that is, do not hazard too much at a single risk. NWAD BOTTOM.12
10. A ball of thread. NWAD BOTTOM.13
11. The bottom of a lane or alley, is the lowest end. This phrase supposed a declivity; but it is often used for the most remote part, when there is very little declivity. NWAD BOTTOM.14
12. The bottom of beer, or other liquor, is the grounds or dregs. NWAD BOTTOM.15
13. In the language of jockeys, stamina, native strength; as a horse of good bottom. NWAD BOTTOM.16
1. To furnish with a seat or bottom; as, to bottom a chair. NWAD BOTTOM.18
2. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. NWAD BOTTOM.19
Find on what foundation a proposition bottoms. NWAD BOTTOM.21
This word is often used in composition, as a flat-bottomed boat, in which case the compound becomes an adjective. NWAD BOTTOMED.2
In heraldry, a cross bottony terminates at each end in three buds, knots or buttons, resembling in some measure the three-leaved grass. NWAD BOTTONY.2
1. A twist; a link; a knot; a flexure, or bend. NWAD BOUGHT.3
2. The part of a sling that contains the stone. NWAD BOUGHT.4
In Surgery, a long slender instrument, that is introduced through the urethra into the bladder, to remove obstructions. It is usually made of slips of waxed linen, coiled into a slightly conical form by rolling them on any hard smooth surface. It is also made of catgut, elastic gum and metal; but those of waved linen are generally preferred. NWAD BOUGIE.2
A wall built of round flints or pebbles laid in a strong mortar, used where the sea has a beach cast up, or where there is a plenty of flints. NWAD BOULDER-WALL.2
In the manege, a horse is so called, when the fetlock or pastern joint bends forward, and out of its natural position. NWAD BOULET.2
In architecture, a molding, the convexity of which is just one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the plinth in the Tuscan and Doric capital. NWAD BOULTIN.2
1. To leap or spring; to fly or rush out suddenly. NWAD BOUNCE.2
Out bounced the mastiff. NWAD BOUNCE.3
2. To spring or leap against any thing, so as to rebound; to beat or thump by a spring. NWAD BOUNCE.4
Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. NWAD BOUNCE.5
3. To beat hard, or thump, so as to make a sudden noise. NWAD BOUNCE.6
Another bounced as hard as he could knock. NWAD BOUNCE.7
4. To boast or bully; used in familiar speech. NWAD BOUNCE.8
5. To be bold or strong. NWAD BOUNCE.9
The bounce burst open the door. NWAD BOUNCE.11
1. A loud heavy sound, as by an explosion. NWAD BOUNCE.12
2. A boast; a threat; in low language. NWAD BOUNCE.13
3. A fish; a species of squalus or shark. NWAD BOUNCE.14