Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 60
Boastful (a.) 自誇的；愛自誇的 [（+of/ about）] Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
Boastful (a.) Exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising].
Boastful (a.) Given to or characterized by boasting. [syn: conceited, cocky, pompous, cocksure, vainglorious, egotistical.].
Boastful (a.) (Disapproving) 自吹自擂的，自誇的 Praising yourself and what you have done.
Boastfully (adv.) 誇耀地；自誇地 In a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large].
Boastfulness (n.) 自吹自擂 Outspoken conceit [syn: boastfulness, vainglory].
Boasting (n.) 吹噓 The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
When boasting ends, then dignity begins. -- Young.
Boasting (n.) Speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation].
Boastingly (adv.) Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." -- Burke.
Boastive (a.) Presumptuous. [R.]
Boastless (a.) Without boasting or ostentation.
Boat (n.) [C] 小船；【口】船，輪船 A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
Boat (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
Boat (n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.
Advice boat. See under Advice.
Boat hook (Naut.), An iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. -- Totten.
Boat rope, A rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter.
In the same boat, In the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] -- F. W. Newman.
Boated (imp. & p. p.) of Boat.
Boating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boat.
Boat (v. t.) 用船裝運 To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
Boat (v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
To boat the oars. See under Oar.
Boat (v. i.) 划船，蕩槳；乘船遊玩 To go or row in a boat.
I boated over, ran my craft aground. -- Tennyson.
Boat (n.) A small vessel for travel on water
Boat (n.) A dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce [syn: gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat, boat]
Boat (v.) Ride in a boat on water.
Boatable (a.) Such as can be transported in a boat.
Boatable (a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
The boatable waters of the Alleghany. -- J. Morse.
Boatage (n.) Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
Boatbill (n.) (Zool.) A wading bird ({Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
Boatbill (n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.
Boatbill (n.) Tropical American heron related to night herons [syn: boatbill, boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius].
Compare: Backswimmer
Backswimmer (n.) Any of numerous predaceous aquatic insects of the family Notonectidae (such as Notonecta undulata) that swim on their backs and may inflict painful bites; -- also called boat bug. -- [RHUD]
Boat bug () (Zool.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.
Boat bug (n.) Carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs [syn: water boatman, boat bug].
Boatfuls (n. pl. ) of Boatful.
Boatful (n.) The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
Boathouse (n.) A house for sheltering boats.
Half the latticed boathouse hides. -- Wordsworth.
Boathouse (n.) A shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats.
Boating (n.) The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
Boating (n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
Boating (n.) Water travel for pleasure [syn: boating, yachting].
Boation (n.) A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.]
The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. -- Derham.
Boatmen (n. pl. ) of Boatman.
Boatman (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
As late the boatman hies him home. -- Percival.
Boatman (n.) (Zool.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.
Boatmanship (n.) The art of managing a boat.
Boatmanship (n.) Skill in handling boats.
Boat-shaped (a.) (Bot.) See Cymbiform.
Boat shell (n.) (Zool.) A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
Boat shell (n.) (Zool.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
Boatsman (n.) A boatman. [Archaic]
Compare: Skua
Skua (n.) (Zool.) Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
Compare: Jager
Jager (n.) [Written also jaeger.] (Mil.) A sharpshooter. See Yager.
Jager (n.) (Zool.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius.
Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull ({Megalestris skua).
Compare: Tropic
Tropic (a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
Tropic bird (Zool.), Any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Phaethon, found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Phaethon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.
Boatswain (n.) (Naut.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
Boatswain (n.) (Zool.) The jager gull.
Boatswain (n.) (Zool.) The tropic bird.
Boatswain's mate, An assistant of the boatswain. -- Totten.
Boatswain (n.) A petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen [syn: boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bosun, bo'sun].
Boat-tail (n.) (Zool.) A large grackle or blackbird ({Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
Boatwomen (n. pl. ) of Boatwoman.
Boatwoman (n.) A woman who manages a boat.
Bob (n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. -- Dryden.
Bob (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. -- Lauson.
Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Bob (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
Bob (n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
Bob (n.) (Steam Engine) A working beam.
Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
A plain brown bob he wore. -- Shenstone.
Bob (n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
Bob (n.) The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. -- L'Estrange.
Bob (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. -- Shak.
Bob (n.) A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] -- Dickens.
Bobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Bob.
Bobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bob.
Bob (v. t.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. "He bobbed his head." -- W. Irving.
Bob (v. t.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. -- Elyot.
Bob (v. t.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. -- Shak.
Bob (v. t.) To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. -- Turbervile.
Bob (v. t.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
Bob (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "Bobbing and courtesying." -- Thackeray.
Bob (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. -- Saxe.
To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. To attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.
Bob (n.) A former monetary unit in Great Britain [syn: British shilling, shilling, bob].
Bob (n.) A hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around.
Bob (n.) A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism [syn: bobsled, bobsleigh, bob].
Bob (n.) A hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
Bob (n.) A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line [syn: bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat].
Bob (n.) A short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: bobtail, bob, dock].
Bob (n.) A short abrupt inclination (as of the head); "he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement".
Bob (v.) Move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back".
Bob (v.) Ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure" [syn: bobsled, bob].
Bob (v.) Remove or shorten the tail of an animal [syn: dock, tail, bob].
Bob (v.) Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand" [syn: curtsy, bob].
Bob (v.) Cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these days!"
Bob (n.) At Demon Internet, all tech support personnel are called ?Bob?. (Female support personnel have an option on ?Bobette?). This has nothing to do with Bob the divine drilling-equipment salesman of the Church of the SubGenius. Nor is it acronymized from ?Brother Of BOFH?, though all parties agree it could have been. Rather, it was triggered by an unusually large draft of new tech-support people in 1995. It was observed that there would be much duplication of names. To ease the confusion, it was decided that all support techs would henceforth be known as ?Bob?, and identity badges were created labelled ?Bob 1? and ?Bob 2?. (?No, we never got any further? reports a witness).
The reason for ?Bob? rather than anything else is due to a luser calling and asking to speak to ?Bob?, despite the fact that no ?Bob? was currently working for Tech Support. Since we all know ?the customer is always right?, it was decided that there had to be at least one ?Bob? on duty at all times, just in case.
This sillyness snowballed inexorably. Shift leaders and managers began to refer to their groups of ?bobs?. Whole ranks of support machines were set up (and still exist in the DNS as of 1999) as bob1 through bobN. Then came alt.tech-support.recovery, and it was filled with Demon support personnel. They all referred to themselves, and to others, as ?bob?, and after a while it caught on. There is now a Bob Code describing the Bob nature.
Bob, () David Betz. A tiny object-oriented language.
Compare: Marmot
Marmot (n.) (Zool.) Any rodent of the genus Marmota (formerly Arctomys) of the subfamily Sciurinae. The common European marmot ({Marmota marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species ({Marmota monax) is the woodchuck (also called groundhog), but the name marmot is usually used only for the western variety.
Marmot (n.) Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
Marmot squirrel (Zool.), A ground squirrel or spermophile.
Prairie marmot. See Prairie dog.
Bobac (n.) (Zool.) The Poland marmot ({Arctomys bobac).
Bobance (n.) A boasting. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bobber (n.) One who, or that which, bobs.
Bobber (n.) A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line [syn: bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat].
Bobbery (n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] -- Halliwell.
Bobbin (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
Bobbin (n.) (Haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
Bobbin (n.) (Elec.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
Bobbin and fly frame, A roving machine.
Bobbin lace, Lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.
Bobbin (n.) A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool, reel].
Bobbinet (n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]
The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. -- Tomlinsom.
Compare: Purfile
Purfile (n.) [See Purfle.] A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Bobbinwork (n.) Work woven with bobbins.
Bobbish (a.) Hearty; in good spirits. [Low, Eng.] -- Dickens.
Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] -- Dickens.
Bobby (n.) An informal term for a British policeman.
Bob-cherry (n.) A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
Bobfly (n.) (Fishing) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
Bobolink (n.) (Zool.) An American singing bird ({Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. -- W. Irving. Bobsled
Bobolink (n.) Migratory American songbird [syn: bobolink, ricebird, reedbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus].
Bobsled (n.) Alt. of Bobsleigh.
Bobsleigh (n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.]
The long wagon body set on bobsleds. -- W. D. Howells.
Bobsleigh (n.) A long racing sled (for 2 or more people), having two pairs of runners, with the front pair connected to a steering mechanism. They are usually raced one at a time down a steeply sloping path or specially constructed chute, with sharp banked curves, and attain high speeds.
Syn: bobsled.
Bobsleigh (n.) Formerly two short sleds coupled together [syn: bobsled, bobsleigh].
Bobsleigh (n.) A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism [syn: bobsled, bobsleigh, bob].
Bobstay (n.) (Naut.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
Bobtail (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.
Bobtail (a.) Bobtailed. "Bobtail cur." -- Marryat.
Bobtail (a.) Having a short or shortened tail; "bobtail mare" [syn: bobtail, bobtailed].
Bobtail (n.) A short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: bobtail, bob, dock].
Bobtail (n.) Large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain [syn: Old English sheepdog, bobtail].
Bobtailed (a.) Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
Bobtailed (a.) Having a short or shortened tail; "bobtail mare" [syn: bobtail, bobtailed].
Bobwhite (n.) (Zool.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
Bobwhite (n.) A popular North American game bird; named for its call [syn: bobwhite, bobwhite quail, partridge].
Bob wig () A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. -- Spectator.
Bocal (n.) [F.] A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
Bocardo (n.) (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. -- Bowen.
Bocardo (n.) A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] -- Latimer.
Bocasine (n.) A sort of fine buckram.
Bocca (n.) [It., mouth.] The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. -- Craig.
Boce (n.) (Zool.) A European fish ({Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
Bock beer () A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]
Bock beer (n.) A very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring [syn: bock, bock beer].
Bockelet (n.) (Zool.) A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]
Bockey (n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] -- Bartlett.
Bocking (n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
Bockland (n.) See Bookland.
Bookland, Bockland (n.) (O. Eng. Law) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands.
This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
Bockland, () Eng. law. The name of an ancient allodial tenure, which was exempt from feudal services. Bac. Ab. Gavelkind, A Spelman's English Works, vol. 2, 233.
Boddice (n.) See Bodick.
Boded (imp. & p. p.) of Bode.
Boding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bode.
Bode (v. t.) 預示；為……的兆頭；【古】預言，預告 To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. -- Goldsmith.
Good onset bodes good end. -- Spenser.