Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 64
Bombycinous (a.) Silken; made of silk.
Bombycinous (a.) Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
Bombylious (a.) Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.
Bombyx (n.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.
Bon (a.) Good; valid as security for something.
Bon-accord (n.) Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
Bona fide (ph.) 【拉】真實的；有誠意的 In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.
Bona fide (a.) 真的，真實的，非虛假的 Real, not false.
// Make sure you are dealing with a bona fide company.
Bona fides (n.) [ pl. ] (Specialized) (Law) 善意；誠意 Good or sincere intentions.
Bonair (a.) Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.
Bonanza (n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Bonapartean (a.) Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
Bonapartism (n.) The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
Bonapartist (n.) One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.
Bona peritura () Perishable goods.
Bona roba () A showy wanton; a courtesan.
Bonasus (n.) Alt. of Bonassus
Bonassus (n.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.
Bonbon (n.) Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
Bonce (n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.
Bonchretien (n.) A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.
Boncilate (n.) A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
Bond (n.) 結合力；聯結，聯繫 [C] [P1]；鐐，銬；束縛；囚禁 [P]；契約，約定 [C] That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. -- Shak.
Bond (n.) (pl.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint. "This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds." -- Acts xxvi.
Bond (n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. -- Burke.
Bond (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation.
I love your majesty According to my bond, nor more nor less. -- Shak.
Bond (n.) (Law) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. -- Bouvier. -- Wharton.
Bond (n.) A financial instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
Bond (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
Bond (n.) (Arch.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
Bond (n.) (Chem.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of {Benzene nucleus}, and {Valence}. Several types of bond are distinguished by chemists, as {double bond}, {triple bond}, {covalent bond}, {hydrogen bond}.
Bond (n.) (Elec.) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
Bond (n.) League; association; confederacy. [South Africa]
The Africander Bond, a league or association appealing to African, but practically to Boer, patriotism. -- James Bryce.
{Arbitration bond}. See under {Arbitration}.
{Bond creditor} (Law), A creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. -- Blackstone.
{Covalent bond}, An attractive force between two atoms of a molecule generated by the merging of an electron orbital of each atom into a combined orbital in the molecule. Such bonds vary in strength, but in molecules of substances typically encountered in human experience (as, water or alcohol) they are sufficiently strong to persist and maintain the identity and integrity of the molecule over appreciable periods of time. Each such bond satisfies one unit of {valence} for each of the atoms thus bonded. Contrasted with {hydrogen bond}, which is weaker and does not satisfy the valence of either atom involved.
{Double bond}, {Triple bond}, A {covalent bond} which involves the merging of orbitals of two (or three) electrons on each of the two connected atoms, satisfying two (or three) units of valence on each of the bonded atoms. When two carbon atoms are thus bonded, the bond (and the compound) are said to be unsaturated.
{Bond debt} (Law), A debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. -- Burrows.
{Hydrogen bond}, A non-covalent bond between hydrogen and another atom, usually oxygen or nitrogen. It does not involve the sharing of electrons between the bonded atoms, and therefore does not satisfy the valence of either atom. Hydrogen bonds are weak (ca. 5 kcal/mol) and may be frequently broken and reformed in solution at room temperature.
{Bond of a slate} or {lap of a slate}, The distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate.
{Bond timber}, Timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.
Syn: Chains; fetters; captivity; imprisonment.
Bonded (imp. & p. p.) of Bond.
Bonding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bond.
Bond (v. t.) 以……作保；以……作抵押；使……黏合；使結合；將（磚等）砌合 [（+together/ to）]；把（進口貨物）存放保稅倉庫 To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
Bond (v. t.) (Arch.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
Bond (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave. [Obs. or Archaic]
Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
By one Spirit are we all baptized . . . whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free. -- 1 Cor. xii. 13.
Bond (n.) An electrical force linking atoms [syn: {chemical bond}, {bond}].
Bond (n.) A certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal [syn: {bond}, {bond certificate}].
Bond (n.) A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest; "the shifting alliances within a large family"; "their friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them" [syn: {alliance}, {bond}].
Bond (n.) (Criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set bail at $10,000"; "a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman" [syn: {bail}, {bail bond}, {bond}].
Bond (n.) A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn: {shackle}, {bond}, {hamper}, {trammel}].
Bond (n.) A connection that fastens things together [syn: {attachment}, {bond}].
Bond (n.) A superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents [syn: {bond}, {bond paper}].
Bond (n.) United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940) [syn: {Bond}, {Julian Bond}].
Bond (n.) British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming [syn: {Bond}, {James Bond}].
Bond (n.) The property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition; "the mutual adhesiveness of cells"; "a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion" [syn: {adhesiveness}, {adhesion}, {adherence}, {bond}].
Bond (v.) Stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: {adhere}, {hold fast}, {bond}, {bind}, {stick}, {stick to}].
Bond (v.) Create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: {bind}, {tie}, {attach}, {bond}].
Bond (v.) Issue bonds on.
Bond (v.) Bring together in a common cause or emotion; "The death of their child had drawn them together" [syn: {bond}, {bring together}, {draw together}].
Bond (n.) An obligation of any kind (Num. 30:2, 4, 12). The word means also oppression or affliction (Ps. 116:16; Phil. 1:7). Christian love is the "bond of perfectness" (Col. 3:14), and the influences of the Spirit are the "bond of peace" (Eph. 4:3).
Bondage (n.) [U] 奴隸身分；奴役；束縛；受勢力（或影響等）奴役 The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. -- Dryden.
Bondage (n.) Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths. -- South.
Bondage (n.) (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
Bondage (n.) The state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time".
Bondage (n.) The state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom].
Bondage (n.) Sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners.
Bondage () Of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isa. 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9).
Bondager (n.) A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]
Bondar (n.) (Zool.) A small quadruped of Bengal ({Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.
Bonded (a.) Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.
Bonded goods, Goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse.
Bonded warehouse, A warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.
Bonder (n.) One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
Bonder (n.) (Masonry) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
Bonder (n.) A freeholder on a small scale. [Norway] -- Emerson.
Bondholder (n.) A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
Bondmaid (n.) A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
Bondmaid (n.) A female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid].
Bondmaid (n.) A female slave [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid].
Bonemeal (n.) [Mass noun] 骨粉 Crushed or ground bones used as a fertilizer.
Compare: Fertilizer
Fertilizer (n.) (British F ertiliser) 肥料；促進發展者；受精媒介物 A chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
‘Sewage sludge could be a valuable fertilizer for use in British forests.’
Bondmen (n. pl. ) of Bondman
Bondman (n.) A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. "To enfranchise bondmen." -- Macaulay.
Bondman (n.) (Old Eng. Law) A villain, or tenant in villenage. bond-servant bondman
Bondman (n.) A male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman].
Bondman (n.) A male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman].
Bond servant () A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
Bond service () The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. -- 1 Kings ix. 21.
Bondslave (n.) A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
Bondsmen (n. pl. ) of Bondsman.
Bondsman (n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. -- Derham.
Bondsman (n.) (Law) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.
Bondsman (n.) A male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman].
Bondsman (n.) Someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else [syn: bondsman, bondswoman].
Bondsman (n.) A male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman].
Bondsman, (n.) A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give. "I need no bondsmen," he replied, "for I can give you my word of honor." "And pray what may be the value of that?" inquired the amused Regent. "Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold."
Bondstone (n.) (Masonry) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
Bondswoman (n.) See Bondwoman.
Bonduc (n.) (Bot.) See Nicker tree.
Bondwomen (n. pl. ) of Bondwoman.
Bondwoman (n.) A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.
He who was of the bondwoman. -- Gal. iv. 23.
Bondwoman (n.) A female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman,
bondswoman, bondmaid].
Bondwoman (n.) A female slave [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid].
Bone (n.) (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify.
Bone (n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
Bone (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
Bone (n.) pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
Bone (n.) pl. Dice.
Bone (n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
Bone (n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
A bone of contention, A subject of contention or dispute.
A bone to pick, Something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one).
Bone ash, The residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry.
Bone black (Chem.) The black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black.
Bone cave, () A cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. -- Am. Cyc.
Bone dust, () Ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer.
Bone earth (Chem.), The earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium.
Bone lace, () A lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone.
Bone oil, () An oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil.
Bone setter. () Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary.
Bone shark (Zool.), The basking shark.
Bone spavin. () See under Spavin.
Bone turquoise, Fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
Bone whale (Zool.), A right whale.
To be upon the bones of, To attack. [Obs.]
To make no bones, To make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low]
To pick a bone with, To quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]
Boned (imp. & p. p.) of Bone.
Boning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bone.
Bone (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." -- Soyer.
Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. -- Ash.
Bone (v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
Bone (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]
Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. -- Knight.
Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. -- W. M. Buchanan.
Bone (a.) Consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body".
Bone (n.) Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates [syn: bone, os].
Bone (n.) The porous calcified substance from which bones are made [syn: bone, osseous tissue].
Bone (n.) A shade of white the color of bleached bones [syn: bone, ivory, pearl, off-white].
Bone (v.) Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone].
Bone (v.) Remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it" [syn: bone, debone].
Boneache (n.) Pain in the bones. -- Shak.
Boneblack (n.) See Bone black, under Bone, n.
Boned (a.) Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.
No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. -- Shak.
Boned (a.) Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.
Boned (a.) Manured with bone; as, boned land.
Boned (a.) Having had the bones removed; "a boneless rib roast"; "a boned (or deboned) fish" [syn: boned, deboned].
Boned (a.) Having bones as specified; "his lanky long-boned body".
Bonedog (n.) (Zool.) The spiny dogfish.
Compare: Ladyfish
Ladyfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) A large, handsome oceanic fish ({Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macab['e].
Ladyfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) A labroid fish ({Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies.
Bonefish (n.) (Zool.) See Ladyfish.
Bonefish (n.) Slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons [syn: bonefish, Albula vulpes].
Boneless (a.) Without bones. "Boneless gums." -- Shak.
Boneless (a.) Being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless" [ant: boney, bony].
Boneset (n.) (Bot.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort ({Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
Boneset (n.) European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America [syn: common comfrey, boneset, Symphytum officinale].
Boneset (n.) Perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine [syn: boneset, agueweed, thoroughwort, Eupatorium perfoliatum].
Bonesetter (n.) One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
Bonesetter (n.) Someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones.
Boneshaw (n.) (Med.) Sciatica. [Obs.]
Bonetta (n.) See Bonito. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Bonfire (n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. -- Gay.
Bonfire (n.) A large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration [syn: bonfire, balefire].
Bongrace (n.) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]
Bonhomie
Bonhomie (n.) Alt. of Bonhommie.
Bonhommie (n.) [F.] 好脾氣，和藹態度；歡樂的氣氛 Good nature; pleasant and easy manner.
Bonhomie (n.) A disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) [syn: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality].
Bonibell (n.) See Bonnibel. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Boniface (n.) [親切的] 旅館的老闆 An innkeeper.
Boniface (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754) [syn: {Boniface}, {Saint Boniface}, {St. Boniface}, {Winfred}, {Wynfrith}, {Apostle of Germany}].
Boniface (n.) The owner or manager of an inn [syn: {host}, {innkeeper}, {boniface}].
Boniface (n.) 聖波尼法爵， 聖公會譯聖博義/聖波尼法/聖波尼法修，拉丁文: Bonifacius，英文︰Saint Boniface，（c. 680-June 5, 754)，中世紀天主教傳教士和殉道者，史稱“日耳曼使徒”，德國基督教化的奠基人。他出生於英格蘭的德文郡，西元722年出任當時法蘭克王國的美因茨大主教，並積極開展促使日耳曼人皈依天主教的傳道活動。他曾在崇拜陀爾神的日耳曼人面前，當眾將一顆代表陀爾神的大橡樹砍倒，以此引導日耳曼人信奉天主教。754年，他在弗里西亞的Dokkum（今荷蘭境內）遇難。他的墓地在今德國富爾達Cathedral教堂地下墓室。 Is a given name and a surname. The best known of those who bear the name is Saint Boniface (c. 675? 754), an important leader in early Christianity and the "Apostle of the Germans". Others named Boniface include:
Boniform (a.) Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence. -- Dr. H. More.
Bonify (v. t.) To convert into, or make, good.
To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. -- Cudworth.
Boniness (n.) The condition or quality of being bony.
Boniness (n.) Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) [syn: bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration].
Boning (n.) The clearing of bones from fish or meat.
Boning (n.) The manuring of land with bones.
Boning (n.) A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.
Bonitary (a.) Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.
Bonitoes (n. pl. ) of Bonito.