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.) 土包子；鄉下佬 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.] Bun.
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.
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 (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.
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
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.
Compare: Concentrated
Concentrated (a.) Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.
Note: [Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted)]
Concentrated (a.) Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused.
Note: [Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided] [Also See: compact.]
Concentrated (a.) Intense; in an extreme degree; -- of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.
Concentrated (a.) Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated.
Note: [Narrower terms: supersaturated]
Syn: saturated.
Concentrated (a.) Reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.
Syn: condensed.
Concentrated (a.) Characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; -- of actions; as, concentrated study.
Syn: intensive.
Concentrated (a.) Characterized by mental concentration.
Syn: intent.
Bunchy (a.) Swelling out in bunches.
An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. -- Phaer.
Bunchy (a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
Bunchy (a.) (Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. --Page.
Bunchy (a.) Occurring close together in bunches or clusters.
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. [Cant or Slang, U.S.]
All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. -- Haliburton.
To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.
Note: "The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous `Missouri Question,' in the 16th Congress.
It was then used by Felix Walker -- a na["i]ve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent county of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the `Question,' and several members gathered round him, begging him to desist. He persevered, however, for a while, declaring that the people of his district expected it, and that he was bound to `make a speech for Buncombe.'" -- W. Darlington.
Buncombe (n.) Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash].
Buncombe -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 206330
Housing Units (2000): 93973
Land area (2000): 655.989803 sq. miles (1699.005718 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.810271 sq. miles (9.868555 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 659.800074 sq. miles (1708.874273 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.595260 N, 82.531461 W
Headwords:
Buncombe
Buncombe, NC
Buncombe County
Buncombe County, NC
Buncombe, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 186
Housing Units (2000): 86
Land area (2000): 1.208937 sq. miles (3.131132 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.208937 sq. miles (3.131132 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09551
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.470987 N, 88.974935 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62912
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Buncombe, IL
Buncombe
Bund (n.) [G.] League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
Bund (n.) [Hindi band.] An embankment against inundation. [India] -- S. Wells Williams.
Bunder (n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
Bundesrath (n.) Lit., a federal council, esp. of the German Empire. In the German Empire the legislative functions are vested in the Bundesrath and the Reichstag. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
Note: The Bundesrath of the German empire is presided over by a chancellor, and is composed of sixty-two members, who represent the different states of the empire, being appointed for each session by their respective governments.
By this united congress, the highest tribunal of Switzerland, -- the Bundesrath -- is chosen, and the head of this is a president. -- J. P. Peters (Trans. M["u]ller's Pol. Hist.).
Bundled (imp. & p. p.) of Bundle.
Bundling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bundle.
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. -- Bartlett.
Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. -- W. Irving.
To bundle up, To dress warmly, snugly, or cumbrously.
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.
The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. -- Goldsmith.
Bundle pillar (Arch.), A column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. -- Weale.
Bundle (v. t.) To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
Bundle (v. t.) To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. -- T. Hook.
Bundle (v. t.) to sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together.
To bundle off, To send off in a hurry, or without ceremony; as, the working mothers bundle their children off to school and then try to get themselves to work on time.
To bundle one's self up, To wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.
Bundle (n.) A collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel].
Bundle (n.) A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing [syn: bundle, sheaf].
Bundle (n.) A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money].
Bundle (v.) Make into a bundle; "he bundled up his few possessions" [syn: bundle, bundle up, roll up].
Bundle (v.) Gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump].
Bundle (v.) Compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, bundle, wad, compact].
Bundle (v.) Sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed [syn: bundle, practice bundling].
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.
To bung up, To use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low]
He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. -- Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).
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. [Obs. & Low]
You filthy bung, away. -- Shak.
Bung (n.) A plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: bung, spile].
Bung (v.) Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung].
Bung (v.) Close with a cork or stopper.
Bungalow (n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]
Bungalow (n.) A small house with a single story [syn: bungalow, cottage].
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.) (Zool.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
Bunghole (n.) See Bung, n., 2. -- Shak.
Bunghole (n.) Vulgar slang for anus [syn: arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole].
Bunghole (n.) A hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it.
Bungle (v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
I always had an idea that it would be bungled. -- Byron.
Bungle (n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
Those errors and bungles which are committed. -- Cudworth.
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 (n.) An embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo].
Bungle (v.) Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up].
Bungle (v.) Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
Bungler (n.) A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! -- Barrow.
Bungler (n.) Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup].
Bungling (a.) Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. -- Swift.
They make but bungling work. -- Dryden.
Bungling (a.) Showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent].
Bungling (a.) Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature" -- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed].
Bunglingly (adv.) Clumsily; awkwardly.
Bungo (n.) (Naut.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. -- Bartlett.
Bunion (n.) (Med.) Same as Bunyon.
Bunyon, Bunion (n.) (Med.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the burs[ae] muscos[ae]), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
Bunion (n.) A painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe.
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 ; as, to sleep in the top bunk.
Bunk (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]
Bunk (n.) A bed. [informal]
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. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Bunk (n.) A long trough for feeding cattle [syn: bunk, feed bunk].
Bunk (n.) A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: berth, bunk, built in bed].
Bunk (n.) A rough bed (as at a campsite).
Bunk (n.) Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash].
Bunk (n.) A message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum].
Bunk (n.) Beds built one above the other [syn: bunk bed, bunk].
Bunk (v.) Avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: beat, bunk].
Bunk (v.) Provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs."
Bunk (v.) Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away].
Bunker (n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Bunker (n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
Bunker (n.) A small sand hole or pit, as on a golf course. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Bunker (n.) (Golf) Hence, any rough hazardous ground on the links; also, an artificial hazard with built-up faces.
Bunker (n.) (Mil.) A fortified position dug into the ground, especially one which is closed on top and has protective walls and roof, e. g. of reinforced concrete. For defending positions it usually has windows to view the surrounding terrain, but as a safe location for planning operations or storage, a bunker may be completely underground with no direct access to the surface.
Bunker (v. t.) (Golf) To drive (the ball) into a bunker.
Bunker (n.) A hazard on a golf course [syn: bunker, sand trap, trap].
Bunker (n.) A large container for storing fuel; "the ship's bunkers were full of coal."
Bunker (n.) A fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground [syn: bunker, dugout].
Bunker (v.) Hit a golf ball into a bunker.
Bunker (v.) Fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil.
Bunker (v.) Transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse.
Bunko (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Bunkoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunkoing.] To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc.
Bunko steerer, A person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]
Bunko (n.) A kind of swindling game or scheme, originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery, but now used for any swindling tactic. [Written also bunco.]
Bunco (n.) See bunko. [Written also bunko.] Buncombe
Bunko (n.) A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam].
Bunkum (n.) See Buncombe.
Buncombe, 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. [Cant or Slang, U.S.]
All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. -- Haliburton.
To speak for Buncombe, To speak for mere show, or popularly.
Note: "The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous `Missouri Question,' in the 16th Congress.
It was then used by Felix Walker -- a na["i]ve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent county of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the `Question,' and several members gathered round him, begging him to desist. He persevered, however, for a while, declaring that the people of his district expected it, and that he was bound to `make a speech for Buncombe.'" -- W. Darlington.
Bunkum (n.) Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash].
Bunn (n.) See Bun.
Bun, Bunn (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, Bunn (n.) A type of coiffure in which the hair is gathered into a coil or knot at the top of the head.
Bun, Bunn (n.) pl. the buttocks. [slang]
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
Bunnian (n.) See Bunyon.
Bunny (n.) (Mining) 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
Bunny (n.) A young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit [syn: bunny, bunny girl].
Bunny (n.) (Usually informal) Especially a young rabbit [syn: bunny, bunny rabbit].
Bunodonta (n. pl.) Alt. of Bunodonts.
Bunodonts (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.) (Bot.) A fungus ({Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
Bunt (n.) (Naut.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. -- Totten.
Bunt (n.) A push or shove; a butt; specif. (Baseball), the act of bunting the ball.
Bunt (v. i.) (Naut.) 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.
Bunt (v. t. & i.) (Baseball) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.
Bunt (n.) (Baseball) The act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat.
Bunt (n.) Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores [syn: bunt, stinking smut].
Bunt (n.) Similar to Tilletia caries [syn: bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida].
Bunt (n.) Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores [syn: bunt, Tilletia caries].
Bunt (v.) Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance [syn: bunt, drag a bunt].
Bunt (v.) To strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns" [syn: butt, bunt].
Bunter (n.) A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant]
Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. -- Goldsmith.
Bunter (n.) (Baseball) a batter who bunts [2].
Bunter (n.) A batter who bunts.
Compare: Ortolan
Ortolan (n.) (Zool.) (a) A European singing bird ({Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.
Ortolan (n.) (Zool.) (b) In England, the wheatear ({Saxicola oenanthe).
Ortolan (n.) (Zool.) (c) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail ({Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
Ortolan (n.) Brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy [syn: ortolan, ortolan bunting, Emberiza hortulana].
Bunting, Buntine (n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
Bunting (n.) (Zool.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
Note: Among European species are the common or corn bunting ({Emberiza miliaria); the ortolan ({Emberiza hortulana); the cirl ({Emberiza cirlus}); and the black-headed ({Granitivora melanocephala). American species are the bay-winged or grass ({Po["o]c[ae]tes gramineus or Po[oe]cetes gramineus); the black-throated ({Spiza Americana); the towhee bunting or chewink ({Pipilo); the snow bunting ({Plectrophanax nivalis); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others.
See Ortolan, Chewick, Snow bunting, Lark bunting. Bunting
Bunting (n.) A loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
Bunting (n.) Any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America.
Bunting (n.) Alt. of Buntine.
Buntine (n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
Buntline (n.) (Naut.) 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. -- Totten. Bunyon
Bunyon (n.) Alt. of Bunion.
Bunion (n.) (Med.) 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.
Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor.
Bell buoy, A large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves.
Breeches buoy. See under Breeches.
Cable buoy, An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.
Can buoy, A hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped.
Life buoy, A float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them.
Nut buoy or Nun buoy, A buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end.
To stream the buoy, To let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.
Whistling buoy, A buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.
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.
Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. -- Burke.
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.
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed. -- Darwin.
Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." -- Pope.
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.
Buoy. () A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation. The act of Congress, approved the 28th September, 1850, enacts, " that all buoys along the coast, in bays, harbors, sounds, or channels, shall be colored and numbered, so that passing up the coast or sound, or entering the bay, harbor or channel, red buoys with even numbers, shall be passed on the starboard hand, black buoys, with uneven numbers, on the port hand, and buoys with red and black stripes on either hand. Buoys in channel ways to be colored with alternate white and black perpendicular stripes."
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. [R.]
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.) (Physics) 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.
Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. -- Eng. Cyc.
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 on the flood." -- Pope.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
The water under me was buoyant. -- Dryden.
Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. -- Buoy"ant*ly, adv.