Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 62
Boiar (n.) See Boyar.
Boiled (imp. & p. p.) of Boil.
Boiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boil.
Boil (v. i.) （水等）沸騰，開，滾；煮熟 To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
Boil (v. i.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
Boil (v. i.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
Boil (v. i.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
Boil (v. i.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
{To boil away}, To vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat.
{To boil over}, To run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.
Boil (v. t.) 煮沸，燒開；烹煮 To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
Boil (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
Boil (v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
Boil (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.]
// To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. -- Bacon.
{To boil down}, To reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.
Boil (n.) [S] 沸騰；煮沸；翻滾 Act or state of boiling.
Boil (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
{A blind boil}, One that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head.
{Delhi boil} (Med.), A peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.
Boil (n.) A painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn: {boil}, {furuncle}].
Boil (n.) The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil" [syn: {boiling point}, {boil}].
Boil (v.) Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" [ant: {freeze}].
Boil (v.) Immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool".
Boil (v.) Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates".
Boil (v.) Be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: {churn}, {boil}, {moil}, {roil}].
Boil (v.) Be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" [syn: {seethe}, {boil}].
Boilary (n.) See Boilery.
Boiled (a.) Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
Boiler (n.) One who boils.
Boiler (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
Boiler (n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
Boilery (n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
Boiling (n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
Boiling (n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
Boilingly (adv.) With boiling or ebullition.
Bois d'arc () The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
Bois durci () A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
Boist (n.) A box.
Boisterous (a.) 喧鬧的；愛鬧的；狂歡的；狂暴的，猛烈的 Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." -- Shak.
Boisterous (a.) Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
The waters swell before a boisterous storm. -- Shak.
The brute and boisterous force of violent men -- Milton.
Boisterous (a.) Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
I like not that loud, boisterous man. -- Addison.
Boisterous (a.) Vehement; excessive. [R.]
The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. -- Woodward.
Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious; tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
Boisterous (a.) Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: {boisterous}, {rambunctious}, {robustious}, {rumbustious}, {unruly}].
Boisterous (a.) Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: {boisterous}, {knockabout}].
Boisterous (a.) Violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous}, {fierce}, {rough}].
Boisterous (a.) 喧閙的；精力旺盛的 Noisy, energetic, and rough.
// Boisterous children.
// A boisterous game.
Boisterously (adv.) 吵鬧地；喧囂地；猛烈地 In a boisterous manner.
Boisterously (adv.) In a carefree manner; "she was rollickingly happy" [syn: {rollickingly}, {boisterously}].
Boisterousness (n.) 喧鬧，歡躍；（風暴）狂烈 The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
Boisterousness (n.) A turbulent and stormy state of the sea.
Boisterousness (n.) The property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained.
Compare: Tumultuousness
Tumultuousness (n.) 吵鬧，喧鬧；騷亂 A state of commotion and noise and confusion.
Compare: Commotion
Commotion (n.) 騷動，喧鬧 [U] [C]；動亂；暴動；起義 [U] [C] A state of confused and noisy disturbance.
‘She was distracted by a commotion across the street.’
[mass noun]‘They set off firecrackers to make a lot of commotion’
Commotion (n.) [mass noun] Civil insurrection.
‘Damage caused by civil commotion.’
Compare: Insurrection
Insurrection (n.) 起義；暴動；造反；叛亂 [C] [U] A violent uprising against an authority or government.
‘The insurrection was savagely put down.’
[mass noun] ‘Opposition to the new regime led to armed insurrection’
Boistous (a.) Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Bois"tous*ly, adv. -- Bois"tous*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bojanus organ () (Zool.) A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.
Bokadam (n.) (Zool.) See Cerberus.
Boke (v. t. & i.) To poke; to thrust. [Obs. or Dial.]
Bolar (a.) Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
Bolas (n. sing. & pl.) [Sp.] A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
Bold (n.) Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
Throngs of knights and barons bold. -- Milton.
Bold (n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. "The bold design leased highly." -- Milton.
Bold (n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. -- Shak.
Bold (n.) Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold. "Bold tales." -- Waller.
The cathedral church is a very bold work. -- Addison.
Bold (n.) Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. -- Dryden.
Bold (n.) Steep; abrupt; prominent.
Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. --Trumbull.
Wedge-tailed (a.) (Zool.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
Wedge-tailed eagle, An Australian eagle ({Aquila+audax"> Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle ({Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lambs; -- called also mountain eagle, bold eagle, and eagle hawk.
Wedge-tailed gull, An arctic gull ({Rhodostethia+rosea"> Wedge-tailed gull, an arctic gull ({Rhodostethia rosea) in which the plumage is tinged with rose; -- called also Ross's gull.
Bold eagle () (Zool.) An Australian eagle ({Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo.
To make bold, To take liberties or the liberty; to venture.
Syn: Courageous; daring; brave; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; valiant; manful; audacious; stouthearted; high-spirited; adventurous; confident; strenuous; forward; impudent.
Bold (v. t.) To make bold or daring. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Bold (v. i.) To be or become bold. [Obs.]
Bold (a.) Fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure" [ant: timid].
Bold (a.) Clear and distinct; "bold handwriting"; "a figure carved in bold relief"; "a bold design".
Bold (a.) Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" [syn: bluff, bold, sheer].
Bold (n.) A typeface with thick heavy lines [syn: boldface, bold face, bold].
Boldened (imp. & p. p.) of Bolden.
Bolden (v. t.) To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
Bold-faced (a.) Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman.
Bold-faced (a.) Having a conspicuous or heavy face.
Boldly (adv.) In a bold manner.
Boldness (n.) The state or quality of being bold.
Boldo (n.) Alt. of Boldu.
Boldu (n.) A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.
Bole (n.) The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
Bole (n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
Bole (n.) A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
Bole (n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
Bole (n.) A bolus; a dose.
Bolection (n.) A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.
Bolero (n.) A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.
bolete (n.) any fungus of the family Boletaceae.
Boletic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.
Boletus (n.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.
Boley (n.) Alt. of Bolye.
Bolye (n.) Same as Booly.
Bolide (n.) A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.
Bolis (n.) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.
Bolivian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bolivia.
Bolivian (n.) A native of Bolivia.
Boll (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
Boll (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
Bolled (imp. & p. p.) of Boll.
Boll (v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Bollandists (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.
Bollard (n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
Bollen (a.) See Boln, a.
Bolling (v. t.) A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.
Boln (v. i.) To swell; to puff.
Boln (a.) Alt. of Bollen.
Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Bologna (n.) A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
Bologna (n.) A Bologna sausage ; also informally called baloney.
Bologna sausage [It. salsiccia di Bologna], A large sausage made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
Bologna stone (Min.), Radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined.
Bologna vial, A vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
Bologna (n.) The capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines.
Bologna (n.) Large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork [syn: bologna, Bologna sausage].
Bolognese (a.) Of or pertaining to Bologna.
Bolognese (n.) A native of Bologna.
Bolognese school (Paint.), A school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.
Bolognian (a. & n.) Bolognese.
Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.
Bolometer (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. -- S. P. Langley.
Bolometer (n.) An instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive.
Bolster (n.) [C] 長枕；墊枕；靠枕；墊子；襯墊；支持物；承板；承材 A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. -- Shak.
Bolster (n.) A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. -- Gay.
Bolster (n.) Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
Bolster (n.) (Saddlery) A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
Bolster (n.) (Naut.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
Bolster (n.) (Naut.) Anything used to prevent chafing.
Bolster (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
Bolster (n.) A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
Bolster (n.) The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
Bolster (n.) (Mech.) The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.