Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 70
Bottom (v. t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
Bottom (v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of. -- Smiles.
Bottom (v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. -- Locke.
Bottom (v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.]
Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. -- Mortimer.
Bottom (v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.]
As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. -- Shak.
Bottom (a.) Situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom drawer" [ant: side(a), top(a)].
Bottom (a.) The lowest rank; "bottom member of the class".
Bottom (n.) The lower side of anything [syn: bottom, underside, undersurface].
Bottom (n.) The lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill".
Bottom (n.) The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass].
Bottom (n.) The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat [syn: bottom, bottom of the inning] [ant: top, top of the inning].
Bottom (n.) A depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed, bottom].
Bottom (n.) Low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn: bottomland, bottom].
Bottom (n.) A cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship].
Bottom (v.) Provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs".
Bottom (v.) Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom.
Bottom (v.) Come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom, bottom].
Bottom, () The least defined element in a given domain.
Often used to represent a non-terminating computation.
(In LaTeX, bottom is written as \perp, sometimes with the domain as a subscript).
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Bottomed (a.) Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
Bottomed (a.) Having a bottom of a specified character [ant: bottomless].
Bottomless (a.) 無底的；深不可測 Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. "Bottomless speculations." -- Burke.
Bottomless (a.) Extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake".
Bottomless (a.) Having no bottom; "bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front" [ant: {bottomed}].
Bottomless (a.) Having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of money"; "bottomless pockets".
Bottomless (a.) Unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness; "bottomless dancers"; "a bottomless bar".
Bottomry (n.) (Mar. Law) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
Bottomry, () Maritime law. A contract, in nature of a mortgage of a ship, on which the owner borrows money to enable him to fit out the ship, or to purchase a cargo, for a voyage proposed: and he pledges the keel or bottom of the ship, pars pro toto, as a security for the repayment; and it is stipulated that if the ship should be lost in the course of the voyage, by any of the perils enumerated in the contract, the lender also shall lose his money but if the ship should arrive in safety, then he shall receive back his principal, and also the interest agreed upon, which is generally called marine interest, however this may exceed the legal rate of interest. Not only the ship and tackle, if they arrive safe, but also the person of the borrower, is liable for the money lent and the marine interest. See 2 Bl. Com. 458; Marsh. Ins. B. 21 c. 1; Ord. Louis XIV. B. 3, tit. 5; Laws of Wishuy, art. 45 Code de Com. B. 2, tit. 9.
Bottomry, () The contract of bottomry should specify the principal lent, and the rate of marine interest agreed upon; the subject on which the loan is effected the names of the vessel and of the master those of the lender and borrower whether the loan be for an entire voyage; for what voyage and for what space of time; and the period of re-payment. Code de Com. art. 311 Marsh. Ins. B. 2.
Bottomry, () Bottomry differs materially from a simple loan. In a loan, the money is at the risk of the borrower, and must be paid at all events. But in bottomry, the money is at the risk of the lender during the voyage. Upon a loan, only legal interest can be received; but upon bottomry, any interest may be legally reserved which the parties agree upon. See, generally, Metc. & Perk. Dig. h. t.; Marsh. Inst. B. 2; Bac. Abr. Merchant, K; Com. Dig. Merchant. E 4; 3 Mass. 443; 8 Mass. 340; 4 Binn. 244; 4 Cranch, 328; 3 John. R. 352 2 Johns. Cas. 250; 1 Binn. 405; 8 Cranch, 41 8; 1 Wheat. 96; 2 Dall. 194. See also this Dict. tit. Respondentia; Vin. Abr. Bottomry Bonds 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1246-57.
Bottony (a.) Alt. of Bottone
Bottone (a.) (Her.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
Cross bottony (Her.), A cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.
Compare: Bots
Bots (n. pl.) (Zool.) The larv[ae] of several species of botfly, especially those larv[ae] which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]
Note: See Illust. of Botfly.
Botts (n. pl.) (Zool.) See Bots.
Botuliform (a.) (Bot.) Having the shape of a sausage. -- Henslow.
Botuliform (a.) Shaped like a sausage
Bouche (n.) [F.] Same as Bush, a lining.
Bouche (v. t.) Same as Bush, to line. Bouche
Bouche (n.) Alt. of Bouch.
Bouch (n.) A mouth. [Obs.]
Bouch (n.) An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]
Bouchees (n. pl.) (Cookery) Small patties.
Boud (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Boudoir (n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. -- Cowper.
Bouffe (n.) Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.
Bouffe (n.) Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken [syn: comic opera, opera bouffe, bouffe, opera comique].
Bougainvillaea (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
Bouged (imp. & p. p.) of Bouge
Bouge (v. i.) To swell out. [Obs.]
Bouge (v. i.) To bilge. [Obs.] "Their ship bouged." -- Hakluyt.
Bouge (v. t.) To stave in; to bilge. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Bouge (n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.]
[They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. -- B. Jonson.
Bouget (n.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.
Bough (n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
Bough (n.) A gallows.
Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
Bought (n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
Bought () imp. & p. p. of Buy.
Bought (p. a.) Purchased; bribed.
Boughten (a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Boughty (a.) Bending.
Bougie (n.) A long, flexible instrument, that is
Bougie (n.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
Bouilli (n.) Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
Bouillon (n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
Bouillon (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
Bouk (n.) The body.
Bouk (n.) Bulk; volume.
Boul (n.) A curved handle.
Boulangerite (n.) A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
Boulder (n.) Same as Bowlder.
Bouldery (a.) Characterized by bowlders.
Boule (n.) Alt. of Boulework
Boulework (n.) Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
Boulevard (n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
Boulevard (n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
Bouleversement (n.) Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
Buolt (n.) Corrupted form Bolt.
Boultel (n.) Alt. of Boultin
Boultin (n.) (Arch.) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
Boultin (n.) (Arch.) One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]
Boulter (n.) [Etymol. uncertain.] A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
Boun (a.) Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Boun (v. t.) To make or get ready. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bounced (imp. & p. p.) of Bounce
Bouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bounce
Bounce (v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
Another bounces as hard as he can knock. -- Swift.
Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. -- Dryden.
Bounce (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff. -- Swift.
Bounced off his arm+chair. -- Thackeray.
Bounce (v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
Bounce (v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. -- Swift.
Bounce (v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]
Bounce (v. t.) To bully; to scold. [Collog.] -- J. Fletcher.
Bounce (n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
Bounce (n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
The bounce burst open the door. -- Dryden.
Bounce (n.) An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.]
Bounce (n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. -- Johnson. De Quincey.?
Bounce (n.) (Zool.) A dogfish of Europe ({Scyllium catulus).
Bounce (adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.
This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. -- Bickerstaff.
Bounce (n.) The quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: bounce, bounciness].
Bounce (n.) A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce].
Bounce (n.) Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce, bouncing].
Bounce (v.) Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet].
Bounce (v.) Hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball".
Bounce (v.) Move up and down repeatedly [syn: bounce, jounce].
Bounce (v.) Come back after being refused; "the check bounced" [ant: clear].
Bounce (v.) Leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet".
Bounce (v.) Refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check".
Bounce (v.) Eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club".
Bounce (v.) [Common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to bounce. See also bounce message.
Bounce (v.) To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.: from the expression ?bouncing the mattress?, but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded ?Try bouncing me, Tigger!? from the Winnie-the-Pooh books. Compare boink.
Bounce (v.) To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem (possibly editing a configuration file in the process, if it is one that is only re-read at boot time). Reported primarily among VMS and Unix users.
Bounce (v.) [VM/ CMS programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine after an error. ? I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night?
Bounce (v.) [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.
Bounce, () (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "{bounce message") to the sender is said to "bounce".
Bounce, () To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 PM to 7 PM was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers.
Bounce, () To engage in sexual intercourse; probably from the expression "bouncing the mattress", but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books.
Compare: Boink.
Bounce, () To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among VMS users.
Bounce, () (VM/ CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night".
Bounce, () (IBM) To power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it. [{Jargon File] (1994-11-29)
Bouncer (n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
Bouncer (n.) A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] -- Johnson.
Bouncer (n.) A bold lie; also, a liar. [Collog.] -- Marryat.
Bouncer (n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
The stone must be a bouncer. -- De Quincey.
Bouncer (n.) A person employed by a tavern, nightclub, or other place of public meeting, to eject persons who become violent or unruly.
Bouncer (n.) A person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting [syn: bouncer, chucker-out].
Bouncing (a.) Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
Many tall and bouncing young ladies. -- Thackeray.
Bouncing (a.) Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." -- B. & Fl.
Bouncing Bet (Bot.), The common soapwort ({Saponaria officinalis). -- Harper's Mag.
Bouncing (a.) Vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"
Bouncing (a.) Marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" [syn: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy].
Bouncing (n.) Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce, bouncing].
Bouncingly (adv.) With a bounce.
Bouncy (a.) Able to bounce.
// This ball's not very bouncy.
Bouncy (a.) Happy and energetic.
// He's always bouncy in the morning.
Bound (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
He hath compassed the waters with bounds. -- Job xxvi. 10.
On earth's remotest bounds. -- Campbell.
And mete the bounds of hate and love. -- Tennyson.
To keep within bounds, Not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.
Syn: See Boundary.
Bounded (imp. & p. p.) of Bound
Bounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bound
Bound (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
Where full measure only bounds excess. -- Milton.
Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. -- Dryden.
Bound (v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
Bound (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. -- Pope.
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. -- Byron.
Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
Bound (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. [R.] -- Shak.
Bound (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]
Bound (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
A bound of graceful hardihood. -- Wordsworth.
Bound (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball. -- Johnson.
Bound (n.) (Dancing) Spring from one foot to the other.
Bound () imp. & p. p. of Bind.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
Bound (p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it. [Collog. U. S.]