Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 63
Bolster (n.) (Cutlery) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
Bolster (n.) (Cutlery) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
Bolster (n.) (Arch.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. -- G. Francis.
Bolster (n.) (Mil.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
Note: [See Illust. of Gun carriage.]
Bolster work (Arch.), Members which are bellied or curved outward like cushions, as in friezes of certain classical styles.
Bolstered (imp. & p. p.) of Bolster
Bolstering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolster
Bolster (v. t.) [（+up）] 支撐；加固；援助；支持 To support with a bolster or pillow. -- S. Sharp.
Bolster (v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
To bolster baseness. -- Drayton.
Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. -- Compton Reade.
Bolster (n.) A pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows [syn: {bolster}, {long pillow}].
Bolster (v.) Support and strengthen; "bolster morale" [syn: {bolster}, {bolster up}].
Bolster (v.) Prop up with a pillow or bolster.
Bolster (v.) Add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" [syn: {pad}, {bolster}].
Bolster, () The Hebrew word _kebir_, rendered "pillow" in 1 Sam. 19:13, 16, but in Revised Version marg. "quilt" or "network," probably means some counterpane or veil intended to protect the head of the sleeper. A different Hebrew word (meraashoth') is used for "bolster" (1 Sam. 26:7, 11, 16). It is rightly rendered in Revised Version "at his head." In Gen. 28:11, 18 the Authorized Version renders it "for his pillows," and the Revised Version "under his head." In Ezek. 13:18, 20 another Hebrew word (kesathoth) is used, properly denoting "cushions" or "pillows," as so rendered both in the Authorized and the Revised Version.
Bolstered (a.) Supported; upheld.
Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.
Bolsterer (n.) A supporter.
Bolsterer (n.) One who or that which bolsters.
Bolt (n.) [C] 閂，門栓；螺栓；閃電，電光 A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. -- Sir W. Scott.
A fool's bolt is soon shot. -- Shak.
Bolt (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.
Bolt (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.]
Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him. -- Shak.
Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
Bolt (n.) A bundle, as of oziers.
Bolt auger, () An auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights.
Bolt and nut, () A metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in illust. above.
Note: See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.
Bolted (imp. & p. p.) of Bolt
Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt
Bolt (v. t.) 閂上，插上；將……用螺栓拴緊；吞吃，匆忙嚥下 [（+down）] To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. -- Milton.
Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food ; often used with down.
Bolt (v. t.) (U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Bolt (v. t.) (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
Let tenfold iron bolt my door. -- Langhorn.
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. -- Shak.
Bolt (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt. -- Drayton.
Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. -- Milton.
Bolt (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
Bolt (v. i.) (U.S. Politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
[He]
came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. -- Thackeray.
Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular;
straight up; unbendingly erect. -- Addison.
Bolt upright. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bolt (n.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
Bolt (n.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. -- Compton Reade.
Bolt (n.) (U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
Bolted (imp. & p. p.) of Bolt
Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt
Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
He now had bolted all the flour. -- Spenser.
Ill schooled in bolted language. -- Shak.
Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. -- L'Estrange.
Bolt (v. t.) (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. -- Jacob.
To bolt to the bran, To examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. -- Chaucer.
This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. -- Harte.
The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. -- Burke.
Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. -- B. Jonson.
Bolt (adv.) In a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: {rigidly}, {stiffly}, {bolt}].
Bolt (adv.) Directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" [syn: {bang}, {slap}, {slapdash}, {smack}, {bolt}].
Bolt (n.) A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn: {thunderbolt}, {bolt}, {bolt of lightning}].
Bolt (n.) A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech.
Bolt (n.) The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key [syn: {bolt}, {deadbolt}].
Bolt (n.) The act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door" [syn: {dash}, {bolt}].
Bolt (n.) A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length.
Bolt (n.) A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener.
Bolt (n.) A sudden abandonment (as from a political party).
Bolt (v.) Move or jump suddenly; "She bolted from her seat".
Bolt (v.) Secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door" [ant: {unbolt}].
Bolt (v.) Swallow hastily.
Bolt (v.) Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: {abscond}, {bolt}, {absquatulate}, {decamp}, {run off}, {go off}, {make off}].
Bolt (v.) Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out" [syn: {run off}, {run out}, {bolt}, {bolt out}, {beetle off}].
Bolt (v.) Eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" [syn: {gobble}, {bolt}].
Bolt (v.) Make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric".
Boltel (n.) See Boultel.
Bolter (n.) 跑開者； 脫韁的馬；逃亡者；脫黨者；篩子 One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
Bolter (n.) One who sifts flour or meal.
Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Bolthead (n.) (Chem.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
Compare: Distillation
Distillation (n.) 蒸餾；淨化 [U]；蒸餾物 [C] [U] Distillation is an important separation process in chemistry, industry, and food science. Here is the definition of distillation and a look at the types of distillation and its uses.
Distillation Definition: Distillation is a widely used method for separating mixtures based on differences in the conditions required to change the phase of components of the mixture. To separate a mixture of liquids, the liquid can be heated to force components, which have different boiling points, into the gas phase. The gas is then condensed back into liquid form and collected. Repeating the process on the collected liquid to improve the purity of the product is called double distillation. Although the term is most commonly applied to liquids, the reverse process can be used to separate gases by liquefying components using changes in temperature and/ or pressure.
A plant that performs distillation is called a distillery. The apparatus used to perform distillation is called a still.
Compare: Distillery
Distillery (n.) 蒸餾室；釀酒廠 A place where liquor is manufactured.
‘The world's oldest whiskey distillery.’
Bolthead (n.) 螺釘的頭 The head of a bolt.
Bolting (n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Bolting (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal.
Bolting (n.) (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.]
Bolting cloth, Wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. -- McElrath.
Bolting hutch, A bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.
Boltonite (n.) (Min.) 鎂橄欖石 A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
Boltrope (n.) (Naut.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
Boltsprit (n.) (Naut.) See Bowsprit.
Bolty (n.) (Zool.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.].
Boluses (n. pl. ) of Bolus
Bolus (n.) （獸醫用的）大丸藥 A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
Bolus (n.) A small round soft mass (as of chewed food).
Bolus (n.) A large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine.
Bom (n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
Bomb (v. t.) 轟炸；轟擊；【美】【俚】徹底打敗 To bombard. [Obs.] -- Prior.
Bomb (v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Bomb (n.) A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. -- Bacon.
Bomb (n.) (Mil.) 炸彈；原子彈；核武器 [the S]；筒形高壓氣體容器；放射性物質容器 A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
Bomb (n.) A bomb ketch.
Bomb chest (Mil.), A chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion.
Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), A small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.
Bomb lance, A lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing.
Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." -- Darwin.
Bomb (n.) An explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions.
Bomb (n.) Strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn: bomb calorimeter, bomb].
Bomb (n.) An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned" [syn: turkey, bomb, dud].
Bomb (v.) Throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb].
Bomb (v.) Fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass].
Bomb (v.) General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. ?Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb.?
Bomb (n., v.) Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix panic or Amiga guru meditation, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS machines tend to get locked up in this situation.
Bomb, () General synonym for crash except that it is not used as a noun. Especially used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb".
Bomb, () Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents Unix+"{panic">of a Unix "{panic" or Amiga guru, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Macintosh, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS computers tend to lock up in this situation.
Bomb, () A piece of code embedded in a program that remains dormant until it is triggered. Logic bombs are triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific date is reached. [{Jargon File] (1996-12-08)
Bombace (n.) Cotton; padding.
Bombard (n.) 射石砲（古代的臼砲）[C] A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
Bombard (n.) A bombardment.
Bombard (n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
Bombard (n.) Padded breeches.
Bombard (n.) See Bombardo.
Bombarded (imp. & p. p.) of Bombard
Bombarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bombard
Bombard (v. t.) 砲擊；轟炸；不斷攻擊；向……連續提出問題 [（+with）]；【核】以高能量粒子或放射能衝擊 To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
Bombardier (n.) (Mil.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]
Bombardier (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Bombardier beetle (Zool.), A kind of beetle ({Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans.
Bombardier (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Bombardier (n.) The member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target.
Bombardman (n.) One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.]
They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. -- B. Jonson.
Bombardment (n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place. Bombardo
Bombardment (n.) The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" [syn: barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught].
Bombardment (n.) The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" [syn: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling].
Bombardment (n.) The act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays).
Bombardment (n.) An attack by dropping bombs [syn: bombing, bombardment].
Bombardo (n.) Alt. of Bombardon
Bombardon (n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
Bombasine (n.) Same as Bombazine.
Bombast (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
A candle with a wick of bombast. -- Lupton.
Bombast (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! -- Shak.
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. -- Stubbes.
Bombast (n.) 誇大其詞的話 [文章]，豪言壯語 Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. -- Dryden.
Bombast (a.) 誇大的 High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. -- Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. -- Cowley.
Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. -- Drayton. Bombastic
Bombast (n.) Pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah].
Bombastic (a.) Alt. of Bombastical
Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
Bombastry (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Bombax (n.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
Bombazet Bombazette (n.) A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
Bombazine (n.) A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.
Bombic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
Bombilate (n.) To hum; to buzz.
Bombilation (n.) A humming sound; a booming.
Bombinate (v. i.) To hum; to boom.
Bombination (n.) A humming or buzzing.
Bomboloes (n. pl. ) of Bombolo
Bombolo (n.) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.
Bombproof (a.) 防炸彈的 Secure against the explosive force of bombs.
Bombproof (n.) 防空洞，防空壕 A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
Bombproof (a.) Able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells; "bombproof shelter" [syn: bombproof, shellproof].
Bombproof (n.) A chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids [syn: bomb shelter, air-raid shelter, bombproof].
Bombproof (v.) 使有防彈能力 Make safe against bombings.
Bombshell (n.) A bomb. See Bomb, n.
Bombycid (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidae.