Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 69
Bot (n.) See Bots.
Botanic (a.) Alt. of Botanical.
Botanical (a.) Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
Botanist (n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
Botanized (imp. & p. p.) of Botanize.
Botanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Botanize.
Botanize (v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
Botanize (v. t.) To explore for botanical purposes.
Botanizer (n.) One who botanizes.
Botanologer (n.) A botanist.
Botanology (n.) The science of botany.
Botanomancy (n.) An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.
Botanies (pl. ) of Botany
Botany (n.) 植物學 The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.
Botany (n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.
Botany (n.) All the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: {vegetation}, {flora}, {botany}] [ant: {fauna}, {zoology}].
Botany (n.) The branch of biology that studies plants [syn: {botany}, {phytology}].
Botany (n.) [ U ] 植物學 The scientific study of plants.
Botany Bay (n.) 植物學灣 A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.
Botargo (n.) 鮪魚內臟配上的拌菜 A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
Botches (n. pl. ) of Botch.
Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Botch (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
Botch (n.) Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
Botched (imp. & p. p.) of Botch.
Botching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Botch.
Botch (n.) To mark with, or as with, botches.
Botch (n.) To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
Botch (n.) To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
Botchedly (adv.) In a clumsy manner.
Botcher (n.) One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
Botcher (n.) A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
Botcher (n.) A young salmon; a grilse.
Botcherly (a.) Bungling; awkward.
Botchery (n.) A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
Botchy (a.) Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.
Bote (n.) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
Bote (n.) Payment of any kind.
Bote (n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
Boteless (a.) Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.
Botfly (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
Both (a. or pron.) The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
Both (conj.) As well; not only; equally.
Bothered (imp. & p. p.) of Bother.
Bothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bother.
Bother (v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
Bother (v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
Bother (n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
Botheration (n.) The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
Botherer (n.) One who bothers.
Bothersome (a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Both-hands (n.) A factotum.
Bothie (n.) Same as Bothy.
Bothnian (a.) Alt. of Bothnic.
Bothnic (a.) Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.
Bothrenchyma (n.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
-ies (n. pl. ) of Boothy.
Bothy (n.) Alt. of Boothy.
Boothy (n.) A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.
Botocudos (n. pl.) A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbores.
Bo tree () The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.
Botryogen (n.) A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.
Botryoid (a.) Alt. of Botryoidal.
Botryoidal (a.) Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
Botryolite (n.) A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
Botryose (a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes.
Botryose (a.) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
Bots (n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.
Bottine (n.) A small boot; a lady's boot.
Bottine (n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
Bottle (n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
Bottle (n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
Bottle (n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.
Bottle ale, Bottled ale. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Bottle brush, A cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles.
Bottle fish (Zool.), A kind of deep-sea eel ({Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size.
Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
Bottle glass, A coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. -- Ure.
Bottle gourd (Bot.), The common gourd or calabash ({Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.
Bottle grass (Bot.), A nutritious fodder grass ({Setaria glauca and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail, and green foxtail.
Bottle tit (Zool.), The European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest.
Bottle tree (Bot.), An Australian tree ({Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk.
Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, A bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in feeding infants.
Bottled (imp. & p. p.) of Bottle.
Bottling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bottle.
Bottle (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
Bottle (n.) A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Chaucer. -- Shak.
Bottle (n.) A glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped.
Bottle (n.) The quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful].
Bottle (n.) A vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle].
Bottle (v.) Store (liquids or gases) in bottles.
Bottle (v.) Put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water."
Bottled (a.) Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.
Bottled (a.) Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. -- Shak. bottlefeed
Bottle green () A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.
Bottle green (n.) Dark to moderate or greyish green.
Bottlehead (n.) (Zool.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.
Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more Hypero["o]don+({Hypero["o]don+bidens">species of Hypero["o]don ({Hypero["o]don bidens, etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.
Bottleholder (n.) One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.
Bottleholder (n.) One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.]
Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. -- The London Times.
Bottle-nose (n.) (Zool.) A grey cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
Note: Also Tursiops truncatus -- a synonym?
Syn: bottlenose dolphin.
Bottle-nose (n.) The puffin.
Bottle-nose (n.) A north Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead.
Syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus.
Bottle-nosed (a.) Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end. -- Dickens.
Bottle-nosed (a.) Having a nose created in the image of its maker.
Bottler (n.) One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
Bottler (n.) A manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages.
Bottlescrew (n.) A corkscrew. -- Swift.
Bottling (n.) The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and sealing the bottles, as with a cork or a bottle cap.
Bottom (n.) The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
Or dive into the bottom of the deep. -- Shak.
Bottom (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
Barrels with the bottom knocked out. -- Macaulay.
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. -- W. Irving.
Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
Bottom (n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
Bottom (n.) The fundament; the buttocks.
Bottom (n.) An abyss. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Bottom (n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." -- Stoddard.
Bottom (n.) (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. -- Shak.
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. -- Bancroft.
Full bottom, A hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.
Bottom (n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
Bottom (n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. -- Johnson.
At bottom, At the bottom, At the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." -- J. F. Cooper.
To be at the bottom of, To be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] -- J. H. Newman.
He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. -- Addison.
To go to the bottom, To sink; esp. to be wrecked.
To touch bottom, To reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.
Bottom (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
Bottom glade, A low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. -- Milton.
Bottom grass, Grass growing on bottom lands.
Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.
Bottomed (imp. & p. p.) of Bottom.
Bottoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bottom.
Bottom (v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. -- Atterbury.
Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. -- South.