BULL-FIGHT — BURLACE

BULL-FIGHT — BURLACE NWAD BULL-FIGHT.1

BULL-FIGHT, n. [bull and fight.] A combat with a bull; an amusement among the Spaniards and Portuguese. A horseman, called a toreador or picador attacks a bull in a circus or inclosed arena, in presence of multitudes of spectators, irritating him with a spear, till the bull rushes upon the horseman, and perhaps dismounts the rider. After the bull has been tormented a long time, the horseman leaves him, and some persons on foot attack him and plunge darts into his neck; and at a signal given by the president, the barbarous sport is ended by the dagger of a matador. NWAD BULL-FIGHT.1

BULL-FINCH, n. [bull and finch.] A bird of the Sparrow kind, whose breast, cheeks and throat are of a crimson color; the rubicilla. NWAD BULL-FINCH.1

BULL-FLY, BULL-BEE, n. An insect. NWAD BULL-FLY.1

BULL-FROG, n. [bull and frog.] The rana ocellata, a large species of frog, found in North America, of a dusky brown color, mixed with a yellowish green, and spotted with black. These frogs live in stagnant water, and utter a loud croaking sound, from which they probably received their name. NWAD BULL-FROG.1

BULL-HEAD, n. [bull and head.] A genus of fishes, the Cottus, with a head broader than the body, whence the name. This fish is called by some the Miller’s thumb. NWAD BULL-HEAD.1

1. A stupid fellow; a lubber. NWAD BULL-HEAD.2

2. A small black water vermin. NWAD BULL-HEAD.3

BULL-TROUT, n. [bull and trout.] A large species of trout, called also sea-trout, thicker than the common sort, and weighing about three pounds. Its back has a bluish green gloss, and there are several black spots on the sides. NWAD BULL-TROUT.1

BULL-WEED, n. Knap weed. NWAD BULL-WEED.1

BULL-WORT, n. Bishops weed. NWAD BULL-WORT.1

BULLACE, n. The bully-tree, or Chrysophyllum, a plant of two species, natives of the West Indies. NWAD BULLACE.1

1. The wild plum, a species of Prunus. NWAD BULLACE.2

BULLANTIC, a. [from bull.] Designating certain ornamental capital letters, used in Apostolic bulls. It is used also as a noun. NWAD BULLANTIC.1

BULLARY, n. A collection of Papistical bulls. NWAD BULLARY.1

BULLATE, a. [L. bullatus.] Having elevations, like blisters; as a bullate leaf. NWAD BULLATE.1

BULLET, n. A ball of iron or lead, called also shot, used to load guns for killing man or beast. Balls for cannon are made of iron; musket-balls are made of lead. NWAD BULLET.1

BULLETIN, n. A French word denoting NWAD BULLETIN.1

1. An official report from an officer to his commander or superior. NWAD BULLETIN.2

2. An official report of a physician respecting the king’s health. NWAD BULLETIN.3

3. A little note given by a banking company. NWAD BULLETIN.4

4. It is sometimes used for a notice, or public announcement; as a bibliographical bulletin. NWAD BULLETIN.5

BULLION, n. Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. The precious metals are called bullion, when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots, or in any form uncoined, as in plate. NWAD BULLION.1

BULLISH, a. Partaking of the nature of a bull or blunder. NWAD BULLISH.1

BULLIST, n. A writer of papal bulls. NWAD BULLIST.1

BULLITE, n. A petrified shell, or the fossil remains of shells, of the genus Bulla. NWAD BULLITE.1

BULLITION, n. [L. bullio, to boil. See Boil.] The act or state of boiling. Superseded by ebullition. NWAD BULLITION.1

BULLOCK, n. An ox, or castrated bull. In America, it is applied to a full grown ox. NWAD BULLOCK.1

BULLY, n. A noisy, blustering overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces, than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels. NWAD BULLY.1

BULLY, v.t. To insult and overbear with noise and blustering menaces. NWAD BULLY.2

BULLY, v.i. To be noisy and quarrelsome. NWAD BULLY.3

BULRUSH, n. [bole, or boll, and rush.] A large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water, and without knots, says Johnson, but Dryden calls it, the knotty bulrush. It is not a technical word. NWAD BULRUSH.1

BULTEL, n. [See Bolt.] A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. [Not used.] NWAD BULTEL.1

BULWARK, n. NWAD BULWARK.1

1. In fortification, a bastion, or a rampart; a mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed with bastions, curtains, etc. NWAD BULWARK.2

2. A fortification; also, any means of defense; as, a navy is the bulwark of a nation. NWAD BULWARK.3

3. That which secures against an enemy or external annoyance; a screen or shelter; means of protection and safety. NWAD BULWARK.4

Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Isaiah 26:1. NWAD BULWARK.5

BULWARK, v.t. To fortify with a rampart; to secure by a fortification; to protect. NWAD BULWARK.6

BUM, n. The buttocks; the part on which we sit. NWAD BUM.1

BUM, v.i. To make a noise. NWAD BUM.2

BUMBAILIFF, n. [A corruption of bound bailiff.] In England, an under-bailiff; a subordinate civil officer, appointed to serve writs, and to make arrests and executions, and bound with sureties for a faithful discharge of his trust. [A vulgar word.] NWAD BUMBAILIFF.1

BUMBARD, n. [See Bombard.] NWAD BUMBARD.1

BURBAST, n. [A different orthography of bombast, which see.] NWAD BURBAST.1

1. A cloth made by sewing one stuff upon another; patchwork. NWAD BURBAST.2

2. Linen stuffed with cotton; stuffing; waddling. NWAD BURBAST.3

BUMBLE BEE, n. [L. bombus, a buzzing.] A large bee, sometimes called humble bee; so named from it sound. NWAD BUMBLE_BEE.1

BUMBOAT, n. A small boat, for carrying provisions to a ship at a distance from shore. NWAD BUMBOAT.1

BUMKIN, n. [See Bumpkin.] A short boom projecting from each bow of a ship, to extend the clue of the foresail to windward. NWAD BUMKIN.1

1. A small out-rigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizen. NWAD BUMKIN.2

BUMP, n. [L. bombus, and Eng. pomp., from swelling, thrusting out.] NWAD BUMP.1

1. A swelling or protuberance. NWAD BUMP.2

2. A thump; a heavy blow. NWAD BUMP.3

BUMP, v.i. To make a loud, heavy or hollow noise, as the bittern. It is also written boom. NWAD BUMP.4

BUMP, v.t. To strike as with or against any thing large or solid, as to bump the head against a wall; to thump. NWAD BUMP.5

BUMPER, n. A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over. NWAD BUMPER.1

BUMPKIN, n. [bump, large, swelling.] An awkward heavy rustic; a clown, or country lout. NWAD BUMPKIN.1

BUMPKINLY, a. Clownish. [Not used.] NWAD BUMPKINLY.1

BUNCH, n. NWAD BUNCH.1

1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; as the bunch on a camel’s back. NWAD BUNCH.2

2. A cluster; a number of the same kind growing together; as a bunch of grapes. NWAD BUNCH.3

3. A number of things tied together; as a bunch of keys; a bunch or rods. NWAD BUNCH.4

4. A collection of things; a knot; as a bunch of hair; a bunch of trees. NWAD BUNCH.5

BUNCH, v.i. To swell out in a protuberance; to be protuberant or round. NWAD BUNCH.6

BUNCH, v.t. To form or tie in a bunch or bunches. NWAD BUNCH.7

BUNCH-BACKED, a. [bunch and back.] Having a bunch on the back; crooked. NWAD BUNCH-BACKED.1

BUNCHINESS, n. The quality of being bunchy, or growing in bunches. NWAD BUNCHINESS.1

BUNCHY, a. Growing in bunches; like a bunch; having tufts. NWAD BUNCHY.1

BUNDLE, n. NWAD BUNDLE.1

1. A number of things put together. NWAD BUNDLE.2

2. A roll; any thing bound or rolled into a convenient form for conveyance; as a bundle of lace; a bundle of hay. NWAD BUNDLE.3

BUNDLE, v.t. To tie or bind in a bundle or roll; often followed by up; as, to bundle up clothes. NWAD BUNDLE.4

BUNG, n. NWAD BUNG.1

1. The stopple of the orifice in the bilge of a cask. NWAD BUNG.2

2. The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cast. NWAD BUNG.3

BUNG, v.t. To stop the orifice in the bilge of a cask with a bung; to close up. NWAD BUNG.4

BUNG-HOLE, n. [bung and hole.] The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cask. NWAD BUNG-HOLE.1

BUNGLE, v.i. bung’gl. To perform in a clumsy, awkward manner; as, to bungle in making shoes. NWAD BUNGLE.1

BUNGLE, v.t. To make or mend clumsily; to both; to manage awkwardly; with up. NWAD BUNGLE.2

BUNGLE, n. A botch; inaccuracy; gross blunder; clumsy performance. NWAD BUNGLE.3

BUNGLER, n. A clumsy awkward workman; one who performs without skill. NWAD BUNGLER.1

BUNGLING, ppr. Performing awkwardly. NWAD BUNGLING.1

BUNGLING, a. Clumsy; awkwardly done. NWAD BUNGLING.2

BUNGLINGLY, adv. Clumsily; awkwardly. NWAD BUNGLINGLY.1

BUNK, n. A case or cabin of boards for a bed; a word used in some parts of America. NWAD BUNK.1

BUNN, BUN, n. [Gr. a hill, and a cake offered to deities.] NWAD BUNN.1

A small cake, or a kind of sweet bread. NWAD BUNN.2

BUNSING, n. An animal found at the Cape of Good Hope, resembling the ferret, but twice as large. When pursued, it emits an intolerable stench. NWAD BUNSING.1

BUNT, n. The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail. NWAD BUNT.1

BUNT, v.i. To swell out; as, the sail bunts. NWAD BUNT.2

1. In popular language, to push with the horns; to butt. [See Point.] NWAD BUNT.3

BUNTER, n. A cant word for a woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low vulgar woman. NWAD BUNTER.1

BUNTING, n. A bird of the genus Emberiza. The name is applied to different species, as the English bunting and the rice bunting. NWAD BUNTING.1

BUNTING, BUNTINE, n. A thin woolen stuff, of which the colors or flags and signals of ships are made. NWAD BUNTING.2

BUNTLINES, n. Ropes fastened to cringles on the bottoms of square sails, to draw them up to their yards. NWAD BUNTLINES.1

BUOY, n. A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor, and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks, employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel. NWAD BUOY.1

To stream the buoy, is to let it fall by the ship’s side into the water, before letting go the anchor. NWAD BUOY.2

BUOYROPE, n. [buoy and rope.] The rope which fastens a buoy to an anchor. NWAD BUOYROPE.1

BUOY, v.t. To keep afloat in a fluid; to bear up, or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; with up. NWAD BUOY.1

1. To support, or sustain; to keep from sinking into ruin or despondency. NWAD BUOY.2

2. To fix buoys, as a direction to mariners. NWAD BUOY.3

BUOY, v.i. To float; to rise by specific lightness. NWAD BUOY.4

BUOYANCY, n. The quality of floating on the surface of water, or in the atmosphere; specific lightness. NWAD BUOYANCY.1

BUOYANT, a. Floating; light; that will not sink; having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid. NWAD BUOYANT.1

1. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body. [Unusual.] NWAD BUOYANT.2

BUPRESTES, n. A species of cantharides, of a nauseous scent, and biting severely. NWAD BUPRESTES.1

BUR, BOUR, BOR, Sav. bur, signifies a chamber or a cottage. NWAD BUR.1

BUR, n. NWAD BUR.2

1. A rough prickly covering of the seeds of certain plants, as of the chestnut, and burdock. NWAD BUR.3

2. A broad ring of iron behind the place for the hand on a spear, used in tilting. NWAD BUR.4

BURBOT, n. [from L. barbatus, so named from its beard.] NWAD BURBOT.1

A fish of the genus Gadus, shaped like an eel, but shorter, with a flat head, and on the nose it has two small beards, and another on the chin. It is disgusting in appearance, but delicate food. It is called also eel-pout. NWAD BURBOT.2

BURDELAIS, n. A sort of grape. NWAD BURDELAIS.1

BURDEN, n. burd’n; written also burthen. [L. fero, or porto.] NWAD BURDEN.1

1. That which is borne or carried; a load. Hence, NWAD BURDEN.2

2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive. NWAD BURDEN.3

3. A birth. NWAD BURDEN.4

4. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each verse; the chorus; so called from the application of this word to the drone or base, and the pipe or string which plays it, in an instrument. A chord which is to be divided, to perform the intervals of music, when open and undivided, is also called the burden. NWAD BURDEN.5

5. In common language, that which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells. NWAD BURDEN.6

6. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. NWAD BURDEN.7

7. The contents of a ship; the quantity or number of tons, a vessel will carry; as a ship of a hundred tons burden. NWAD BURDEN.8

8. A club. [Not in use.] NWAD BURDEN.9

BURDEN, v.t. burd’n. To load; to lay on a heavy load; to incumber with weight. Hence, NWAD BURDEN.10

1. To oppress with any thing grievous; as, to burden a nation with taxes. NWAD BURDEN.11

2. To surcharge; as, to burden the memory. NWAD BURDEN.12

BURDENED, pp. Loaded with weight; incumbered; oppressed. NWAD BURDENED.1

BURDENER, n. One who loads; an oppressor NWAD BURDENER.1

BURDENOUS, a. Grievous; heavy to be borne; oppressive. NWAD BURDENOUS.1

1. Cumbersome; useless. NWAD BURDENOUS.2

BURDENSOME, a. Heavy; grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. NWAD BURDENSOME.1

BURDENSOMENESS, n. The quality of being burdensome; heaviness; oppressiveness. NWAD BURDENSOMENESS.1

BURDOCK, n. [bur and dock.] A genus of plants, called Arctium. They are troublesome weeds. NWAD BURDOCK.1

The lesser burdock is a species of zanthium. NWAD BURDOCK.2

BUREAU, n. buro. NWAD BUREAU.1

1. A chest of drawers, for keeping papers or clothes. NWAD BUREAU.2

2. An ambassador’s or secretary’s office. NWAD BUREAU.3

In Spanish, this word bureo is a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king’s household. NWAD BUREAU.4

BURG, n. [This is the same word as borough, the only difference being in the pronunciation of the final letter.] NWAD BURG.1

A borough; originally a fortified town, but now a city or town, which send members to parliament, whether incorporated or not. [See Borough.] NWAD BURG.2

BURGAGE, n. [from burg.] In English law, tenure in burgage, or burgage tenure, is tenure in socage, applied to cities or towns, or where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, are held of some lord in common socage by a certain established rent; a remnant of Saxon liberty. NWAD BURGAGE.1

BURGAMOT, n. A species of pear. [See Bergamot.] NWAD BURGAMOT.1

1. A kind of perfume. [See Bergamot.] NWAD BURGAMOT.2

BURGANET, BURGONET, n. A kind of helmet, the Spanish murrion. NWAD BURGANET.1

BURGEOIS, n. A burgess. NWAD BURGEOIS.1

BURGEOIS, BOURGEOIS, n. burjois’. A species of type, or printing letter, smaller than long primer, and larger than brevier. NWAD BURGEOIS.2

BURGEON. [See Bourgeon.] NWAD BURGEON.1

BURGER-MASTER, n. An aquatic fowl which builds its nest on cliffs near the water. NWAD BURGER-MASTER.1

BURGESS, n. NWAD BURGESS.1

1. An inhabitant of a borough, or walled town; or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. NWAD BURGESS.2

2. A representative of a borough in parliament. NWAD BURGESS.3

3. A magistrate of certain towns. NWAD BURGESS.4

4. Before the revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia, were called burgesses, as the House of Burgesses. It is now called the House of Delegate. NWAD BURGESS.5

BURGESS-SHIP, n. The state or quality of a burgess. NWAD BURGESS-SHIP.1

BURGH, n. burg. A different orthography of burg, borough, which see. NWAD BURGH.1

BURGH-BOTE, n. [burgh and bote.] In old laws, a contribution towards the building or repairing of castles, or walls, for the defense of a city or town. NWAD BURGH-BOTE.1

BURGH-BRECH, n. [burgh and break.] A fine imposed on a burgh, for a breach of the peace. NWAD BURGH-BRECH.1

BURGHER, n. [from burg.] An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a free man. In America, it is applied to any native citizen, especially in the state of New York. NWAD BURGHER.1

BURGHER-SHIP, n. The state or privilege of a burgher. NWAD BURGHER-SHIP.1

BURGH-MASTER, n. [burgh and master.] A burgomaster; also, an officer in the tinmines, who directs and lays out the meers for the workmen, called also bailiff and bar-master. NWAD BURGH-MASTER.1

BURGHMOTE, n. [burgh and mote, meeting.] The court of a burgh or borough. NWAD BURGHMOTE.1

BURGLAR, n. [burgh or burg, a house] One guilty of nocturnal house breaking; one who breaks and enters a mansion house, with intent to commit a felony. NWAD BURGLAR.1

BURGLARIAN, n. A person guilty of burglary. NWAD BURGLARIAN.1

BURGLARIOUS, a. Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. NWAD BURGLARIOUS.1

To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. NWAD BURGLARIOUS.2

BURGLARIOUSLY, adv. With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. NWAD BURGLARIOUSLY.1

BURGLARY, n. The act or crime of nocturnal house breaking, with an intent to commit a felony. To constitute this crime, the act must be committed in the night, or when there is not day-light enough to discern a man’s face. It must be in a mansion house, or in an adjoining building which is a part or parcel of the mansion. There must be an actual breaking and an entry; but an opening made by the offender, as by taking out a pane of glass, or lifting a window, raising a latch, picking a lock, or removing any fastening, amounts to a breaking; and a putting in of the hand, after such breaking, is an entry. The act must also be done with an intent to commit felony. NWAD BURGLARY.1

BURGOMASTER, n. [burg and master.] A burgh-master; a magistrate or one employed in the government of a city. The burgomasters are the chief magistrates of the great towns, in Holland, Flanders and Germany. NWAD BURGOMASTER.1

BURGRAVE, n. [burg] In some European countries, an hereditary governor of a town or castle. NWAD BURGRAVE.1

BURGUNDY, n. A kind of wine, so called from Burgundy in France. NWAD BURGUNDY.1

Burgundy pitch is turpentine boiled down to a firmer consistence. NWAD BURGUNDY.2

BURH, is the same as burg, burgh, with the aspirate. It is Saxon, and signifies a city, a castle, a house, or tower. Hence in composition it signified defense, protection; as cwenburh, [queen-burh] a woman ready to assist; Cuthburh, eminent for assistances. NWAD BURH.1

BURIAL, n. ber’rial. [See Bury.] The act of burying a deceased person; sepulture; interment; the act of depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water. NWAD BURIAL.1

1. The act of placing any thing under earth or water; as, to bury see in the earth. NWAD BURIAL.2

2. The church service for funerals. NWAD BURIAL.3