Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 93
Bumper (n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
He frothed his bumpers to the brim. -- Tennyson.
Bumper (n.) A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]
Bumper (n.) That which bumps or causes a bump.
Bumper (n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
Bumper (n.) Specifically: (Motor vehicles) A protective guard device, usually of metal or rubber, attached horizontally to the front or rear of the frame of a vehicle, designed to resist or deaden a bump or shock, and to prevent damage to the main frame of the vehicle in low-velocity collisions.
Bumper (n.) A glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast); "we quaffed a bumper of ale".
Bumper (n.) A mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage.
Bumpkin (n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." -- W. Irving.
Bumpkin (n.) A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon].
Bumptious (a.) 自大的，傲慢的 Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] -- Halliwell.
Bumptious (a.) Offensively self-assertive [syn: {bumptious}, {self- assertive}].
Bumptiousness (n.) Conceitedness. [Colloq.]
Bumptiousness (n.) Offensive boldness and assertiveness [syn: bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness, forwardness].
Bun (n.) Alt. of Bunn
Bun (n.) any of a variety of slightly sweetened or plain raised cakes or bisquits, often having a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust; as, a hot cross bun.
Bun (n.) A type of coiffure in which the hair is gathered into a coil or knot at the top of the head.
Bun (n.) pl. the buttocks. [slang]
Bun (n.) [acronym] (Med.) same as Blood urea nitrogen; 血尿素氮 The concentration of nitrogen in blood present in the form of urea; -- used as a measure of kidney function.
Note: Blood usually contains 10 to 15 mg of nitrogen per 100 ml in the form of urea. -- Stedman.
Bun (n.) Small rounded bread either plain or sweet [syn: bun, roll].
Bunn (n.) See Bun.
Bunn, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 357
Housing Units (2000): 179
Land area (2000): 0.533352 sq. miles (1.381374 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.533352 sq. miles (1.381374 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08860
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.958106 N, 78.251980 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bunn, NC
Bunn
Bunn (n.) A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.
Bunch (n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. -- Isa. xxx. 6.
Bunch (n.) A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
Bunch (n.) (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. -- Page.
Bunched (imp. & p. p.) of Bunch
Bunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bunch
Bunch (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. -- Woodward.
Bunch (v. t.) To form into a bunch or bunches.
Bunch (n.) A grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering].
Bunch (n.) An informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch].
Bunch (n.) Any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" [syn: bunch, lot, caboodle].
Bunch (v.) Form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" [syn: bunch together, bunch, bunch up].
Bunch (v.) Gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump].
Bunch (1.) A bundle of twigs (Ex. 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of raisins (2 Sam. 16:1). (3.) The "bunch of a camel" (Isa. 30:6).
Bunch (n.) (Group) (B1) [ C ] 串，束，紮 A number of things of the same type fastened together or in a close group.
// A bunch of flowers/ grapes/ bananas/ keys.
// (Mainly US informal) The reorganization will give us a whole bunch (= a lot) of problems.
Bunch (n.) (B1) [ S ] 一幫人 A group of people.
// They're a bunch of jerks.
// Your friends are a nice bunch.
The best/ pick of the bunch 出類拔萃的人（或物）；精英；精品 The best person or thing from a group of similar people or things.
// Send in your poems and we'll publish the best of the bunch.
Bunch (n.) (Hairstyle) Bunches (pl.) (UK) （紮在頭兩側的）小辮 If a girl has her hair in bunches, it is tied together in two parts with one at each side of her head.
// As a little girl she wore her hair in bunches.
Idiom:
A bunch of fives (UK) (old-fashioned) (slang) 一拳痛擊 If you give someone a bunch of fives, you hit them hard with your hand closed.
Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." -- Shak.
Bunchberry (n.) (Bot.) The dwarf cornel ({Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
Bunchberry (n.) Creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska [syn: bunchberry, dwarf cornel, crackerberry, pudding berry, Cornus canadensis].
Bunch grass (n.) (Bot.) A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
Bunch grass (n.) Any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States [syn: bunchgrass, bunch grass].
Bunchiness (n.) The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
Bunchy (a.) Swelling out in bunches.
Bunchy (a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
Bunchy (a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.
Buncombe (n.) Alt. of Bunkum
Bunkum (n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
Bund (n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.
Bunder (n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
Bundesrath (n.) The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
Bundle (n.) A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.
Bundled (imp. & p. p.) of Bundle
Bundling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bundle
Bundle (v. t.) To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
Bundle (v. t.) To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
Bundle (v. i.) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
Bundle (v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.
Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
Bung (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
Bung (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
Bunged (imp. & p. p.) of Bung
Bunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bung
Bung (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
Bungalow (n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.
Bungalow (n.) [ C ] 平房 A house that usually has only one storey (= level), sometimes with a smaller upper storey set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof.
// There were small, white bungalows dotted over the hillside.
Bungarum (n.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
Bunghole (n.) See Bung, n., 2.
Bungled (imp. & p. p.) of Bungle
Bungling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bungle
Bungle (v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
Bungle (v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
Bungle (n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
Bungler (n.) A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Bungling (a.) Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.
Bunglingly (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly.
Bungo (n.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.
Bunion (n.) Same as Bunyon.
Bunk (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
Bunk (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
Bunk (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
Bunked (imp. & p. p.) of Bunk
Bunking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bunk
Bunk (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
Bunker (n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
Bunker (n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
Bunko (n.) A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.
Bunkum (n.) See Buncombe.
Bunn (n.) See Bun.
Bunnian (n.) See Bunyon.
Bunny (n.) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.
Bunny (n.) A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
Bunodonta (n. pl.) Alt. of Bunodonts
Bunodonts (n. pl.) A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.
Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burner
Bunsen's burner () See under Battery, and Burner.
Bunt (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
Bunt (n.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
Bunt (v. t. & i.) To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
Bunter (n.) A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
Bunting (n.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
Bunting (n.) Alt. of Buntine
Buntine (n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
Buntline (n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
Bunyon (n.) Alt. of Bunion
Bunion (n.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
Buoy (n.) 浮標，浮筒，救生圈 A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
Buoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Buoy
Buoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buoy
Buoy (v. t.) 使浮起，支撐，鼓勵 To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
Buoy (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Buoy (n.) Bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards.
Buoy (v.) Float on the surface of water.
Buoy (v.) Keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up" [syn: {buoy}, {buoy up}].
Buoy (v.) Mark with a buoy.
Buoyage (n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
Buoyance (n.) Buoyancy.
Buoyancies (n. pl. ) of Buoyancy
Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
Buoyancy (n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.