Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 67
Booting (n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.
Booting (n.) A kicking, as with a booted foot.
Bootjack (n.) A device for pulling off boots.
Bootless (a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
Bootlick (n.) A toady.
Bootmaker (n.) One who makes boots.
Boots (n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
Boottopping (n.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
Boottree (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
Booty (n.) [U] 戰利品，繳獲物；掠奪物；贓物；貴重的獲得物；獎品，贈品 That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. -- Milton.
{To play booty}, To play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange.
Booty (n.) Goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {loot}, {booty}, {pillage}, {plunder}, {prize}, {swag}, {dirty money}].
Booty (n.) Captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan all that breathed were to be destroyed (Deut. 20: 16). The "pictures and images" of the Canaanites were to be destroyed also (Num. 33:52). The law of booty as to its division is laid down in Num. 31:26-47. David afterwards introduced a regulation that the baggage-guard should share the booty equally with the soldiers engaged in battle. He also devoted of the spoils of war for the temple (1 Sam. 30:24-26; 2 Sam. 8:11; 1 Chr. 26:27).
Booty (n.) War. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, on the sea.
Booty (n.) After booty has been in complete possession of the enemy for twenty four hours, it becomes absolutely his, without any right of postliminy in favor of the original owner, particularly when it has passed, bona fide, into the hands of a neutral. 1 Kent, Com. 110.
Booty (n.) The right to the booty, Pothier says, belongs to the sovereign but sometimes the right of the sovereign, or the public, is transferred to the soldiers, to encourage them. Tr. du Droit de Propriete, part 1, c. 2, art. 1, Sec. 2; Burl. Nat. and Pol. Law, vol. ii. part 4, o. 7, n. 12.
Boozed (imp. & p. p.) of Booze.
Boozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Booze.
Booze (v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
Booze (n.) A carouse; a drinking.
Boozer (n.) One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
Boozy (a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
Bopeep (n.) The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
Borable (a.) Capable of being bored.
Borachte (n.) A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
Boracic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
Boracite (n.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
Boracous (a.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
Borage (n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
Boragewort (n.) Plant of the Borage family.
Boraginaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
Boragineous (a.) Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
Boramez (n.) See Barometz.
Borate (n.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
Borax (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
Borborygm (n.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
Bord (n.) A board; a table.
Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
Bord (n.) See Bourd.
Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Bordar (n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
Bordeaux (a.) Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
Bordeaux (n.) A claret wine from Bordeaux.
Bordel (n.) Alt. of Bordello.
Bordello (n.) A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
Bordelais (a.) Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
Bordeller (n.) A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
Border (n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
Border (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
Border (n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
Border (n.) A narrow flower bed.
Bordered (imp. & p. p.) of Border.
Bordering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Border.
Border (v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
Border (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
Border (v. t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
Border (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
Border (v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.
Borderer (n.) One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
Bordland (n.) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
Bordlode (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
Bordman (n.) A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
Bordrag (n.) Alt. of Bordraging.
Bordraging (n.) An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
Bord service () Service due from a bordar; bordage.
Bordure (n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
Bored (imp. & p. p.) of Bore.
Boring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bore.
Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
Bore (v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
Bore (v. t.) To befool; to trick.
Bore (v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
Bore (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Bore (v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
Bore (n.) A hole made by boring; a perforation.
Bore (n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
Bore (n.) The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
Bore (n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
Bore (n.) Caliber; importance.
Bore (n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
Bore () imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
Boreal (a.) 北的；北風的；北極的 Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. -- Thomson.
Boreal (a.) (Biogeography) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New World; -- equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas. The term is used by American authors and applied by them chiefly to the Nearctic subregion. The Boreal region includes approximately all of North and Central America in which the mean temperature of the hottest season does not exceed 18[deg] C. (= 64.4[deg] F.). Its subdivisions are the Arctic zone and.
{Boreal zone}, The latter including the area between the Arctic and Transition zones.
Boreal (a.) Relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind.
Boreal (a.) Toward or located in the north; "the boreal signs of the Zodiac".
Boreal (a.) Comprising or throughout far northern regions [syn: {boreal}, {circumboreal}].
Compare: Biogeography
Biogeography (n.) 生 物地理學是生物學與地理學間的邊緣學科。研究生物在時間和空間上分布的一門學科。即生物群落及其組成成分，它們在地球表面的分布情況及形成原因。生物地理 學研究範圍包括：動物地理學、植物地理學、海洋生物地理學、古生物地理學。生物的單體還有群體會隨著緯度、海拔、隔離以及棲息地面積地理梯度之轉變而變化 生物的基因 [1]。
Is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area. [1] Phytogeography is the branch of biogeography that studies the distribution of plants. Zoogeography is the branch that studies distribution of animals.
Boreas (n.) The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Borecole (n.) A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.
Boredom (n.) 無聊；厭倦 The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. -- Dickens.
Boredom (n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Boredom (n.) The feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: boredom, ennui, tedium].
Boredom (n.) [ U ] 厭煩；厭倦；乏味；無聊 The state of being bored.
// They started quarrelling out of sheer boredom.
Boree (n.) Same as BourrEe.
Borel (n.) See Borrel.
Borele (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
Borer (n.) One that bores; an instrument for boring.
Borer (n.) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
Borer (n.) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
Borer (n.) One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
Borer (n.) The hagfish (Myxine).
Boric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.
Boride (n.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
Boring (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. -- Tomlinson.
Boring (n.) A hole made by boring.
Boring (n.) pl. The chips or fragments made by boring.
Boring bar, A revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.
Boring tool (Metal Working), A cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. -- Knight.
Boring (a.) So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is" -- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket" -- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome].
Boring (n.) The act of drilling [syn: drilling, boring].
Boring (n.) The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [syn: boring, drilling, oil production].
Born (v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.
No one could be born into slavery in Mexico. -- Prescott.