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assurance, confident mien, freedom from bashfulness.
3. Impudence, insolence, sauciness, rudeness, impertinence, effrontery, presumption, brass, face, front, CHEEK.
4. Prominence, striking character or quality.
5. Steepness, abruptness.
Bold-spirited, a. Courageous, BOLD.
Bole, n.
1. Body (of a tree), stem, trunk.
2. Bolus, large pill.
Boll, n. Pod, capsule, pericarp.
Bolt, n.
1. Arrow, dart, shaft.
2. Thunderbolt, stroke of lightning.
3. Pin (of large size).
4. Sieve.
Bolt, v. a.
1. Fasten with a bolt.
2. Swallow (without chewing).
3. Sift, pass through a sieve.
Bolt, v. n.
1. Bounce, start suddenly, spring out abruptly.
2. [U. S.] Rat, abscond, withdraw (especially from a political party), desert suddenly.
Bolt-upright, a. Perpendicular, quite upright.
Bolus, n. Bole, large pill.
Bombard, v. a. Attack with bombs.
Bombardment, n. Attack with bombs.
Bombast, n. Fustian, rodomontade, rant, inflated style, swelling or pompous phraseology.
Bombastic, a. Inflated, turgid, tumid, swelling, stilled, grandiloquent, pompous, sophomorical, high-flown, high-sounding, HIGHFALUTIN.
Bona fide, [L.] Really, truly, actually, sincerely, in good faith, without fraud.
Bond, n.
1. Band, ligature, cord, chain, FETTER.
2. Obligation, compact.
Bondage, n. Servitude, slavery, thraldom, captivity, imprisonment, confinement, bond-service, bonds, restraint of personal liberty.
Bonds, n. pl. Imprisonment, captivity, chains, FETTERS, BONDAGE.
Bonbon, n. [Fr.] Sweetmeat, sugar-plum.
Bone-ash, n. Bone-earth, burnt bones, earthy matter of bones.
Bone-black, n. Ivory-black, animal charcoal.
Bone-earth, n. Bone-ash.
Bone of contention, Subject of contention, subject of dispute.
Boneset, n. Thoroughwort, feverwort, ague-weed, Indian sage (Eupatorium perfoliatum).
Bonhomie, n. [Fr.] Good-nature, easy humor, good-natured simplicity.
Bonito, n. Albicore, horse-mackerel (Thynnus pelamys).
Bonmot, n. [Fr.] Jest, joke, witticism, witty repartee.
Bonne-bouche, n. [Fr.] Titbit, delicacy, nice bit, delicate morsel, choice morsel, delicious mouthful.
Bonny, a.
1. Handsome, beautiful, pretty.
2. Cheerful, blithe, sprightly, buoyant, airy, gay, merry, joyous, jolly, jocund, winsome, buxom, playful, sportive, jocose, in good spirits, in high spirits.
3. Plump, round, chubby, in good health.
Bon-ton, n. [Fr.] High mode, fashionable style, style of high life.
Bonus, n. [L.] Premium, reward.
Bon-vivant, n. [Fr.] Luxurious liver, boon companion, jovial companion, jolly fellow.
Booby, n.
1. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.
2. (Ornith.) Gannet, noddy, solan goose (Sula bassana).
Book, n. Work, volume.
Booked up, Posted, well-informed.
Bookish, a. Given to reading, fond of books, fond of study, very studious.
Book-keeper, n. Accountant.
Book-learned, a. Versed in books.
Book-madness, n. Bibliomania.
Book-maker, n. Compiler.
Book-making, n. Compilation.
Bookstore, n. [U. S.] Bookseller's shop.
Bookworm, n. Great reader or student (without discrimination and without definite purpose).
Booley, n. [Irish.] Nomad, wanderer.
Boom, v. n.
1. Roar, resound.
2. Rush, bound, dash forward.
Boon, n. Gift, present, benefaction, grant, offering.
Boon, a.
1. Kind, bountiful, generous.
2. Gay, merry, jovial, jolly, convivial.
Boor, n. Rustic, clown, hind, lout, lubber, swain, peasant, bumpkin, clodpole, countryman, ploughman.
Boorish, a. Rustic, rude, clownish, loutish, bearish, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, coarse, rough, unrefined, uncourtly, ungraceful, gawky, lubberly.
Boosy, a. Boozy.
Boot, v. a. [Generally used impersonally.] Profit, benefit, advantage.
Bootee, n. Bootikin, half boot, short boot.
Bootikin, n. Bootee, half boot.
Bootless, a. Useless, unavailing, fruitless, futile, unprofitable, profitless, valueless, worthless, ineffectual, abortive, vain, idle, without avail.
Booty, n. Plunder (to be used for any purpose), spoil, pillage, PREY.
Boozy, a. [Written also Boosy.] Tipsy, inebriated, fuddled, disguised, maudlin, mellow, SLEWED, GROGGY, half drunk, half seas over.
Borax, n. Tincal, bi-borate of soda.
Border, n.
1. Edge, rim, brim, verge, brink, margin, skirt.
2. Limit, boundary, confine, frontier.
Border, v. a. Put a border upon, adorn with a border, make a border for.
Border on, Adjoin, be in contact with, be coterminous with, touch at the side or end of, be contiguous to, border upon.
Border upon, Border on.
Bore, v. a.
1. Perforate, pierce, drill.
2. Weary (by tedious repetition), fatigue, plague, trouble, vex, worry, annoy.
Bore, n.
1. Hole, calibre.
2. Proser, button-holder.
3. Eagre, great tidal flood.
Boreal, a. Northern, northerly, arctic.
Boreas, n. The north wind.
Born again, Regenerated, regenerate, converted, renewed in spirit.
Born days, [Low.] Life, lifetime.
Borough, n. Town (In England, a town represented in Parliament).
Borrow, v. a.
1. Ask the loan of, take or receive as a loan.
2. Take, appropriate, adopt, make use of.
Bosom, n. Breast.
Bosom-friend, n. Confidant, intimate friend, dear friend.
Boss, n.
1. Protuberance, knob, stud, protuberant part.
2. [Colloquial, U. S.] Superintendent, overseer, master-workman.
Boss, v. a.
1. Stud, cover with bosses.
2. [Colloquial, U. S.] Direct, oversee, superintend.
Bossy, n. [Childish term.] Calf.
Botch, n.
1. Pustule, blotch, blain, sore.
2. Failure, miscarriage, bad work, bad job, clumsy performance, bungling piece of work.
Botch, v. a.
1. Mend awkwardly, patch clumsily.
2. Put together unskilfully, construct in a bungling manner.
Both, a. The two, the one and the other.
Both, conj. [Preceding a word or phrase which is followed by and; Both—and.] As well as, not only, but also.
Bother, v. a. Perplex, worry, harass, trouble, annoy, tease, vex, plague, molest, incommode, BORE, disturb, pester.
Bother, n. [Colloquial.] Perplexity, vexation, annoyance, plague, trouble, bore.
Botheration, n. [Low.] Bother.
Bottom, n.
1. Lowest part.
2. Foundation, basis, groundwork, base.
3. Dale, valley, alluvial land.
4. Ship, vessel, sailing craft.
5. Fundament, seat.
6. Stamina, native strength, power of endurance.
7. Grounds, lees, dregs, sediments.
Bottom, v. a. Found, establish, build.
Bottom, v. n. Rest (for support), be based.
Boudoir, n. [Fr.] Cabinet, private room, retired apartment.
Bough, n. Branch, limb, shoot.
Bouilli, n. [Fr.] Stew, boiled meat, stewed meat.
Bouillon, n. [Fr.] Broth, soup.
Bounce, n.
1. Knock, thump, sudden blow.
2. Bound, leap, jump, spring.
3. [Colloquial.] Boast, vaunt, brag.
4. [Colloquial.] Falsehood, lie, WHOPPER, bouncer.
Bounce, v. n.
1. Bolt, leap or spring suddenly.
2. Rebound, recoil.
3. Knock, thump, beat.
Bounce, v. a. Thrust, drive against.
Bouncer, n. [Colloquial.]
1. Boaster, BLUSTERER, bully.
2. Falsehood, lie, WHOPPER, bounce.
3. Giant, STRAPPER, large person.
Bouncing, a. [Colloquial.] Stout, lusty, strong, portly, burly, huge, great, strapping.
Bound, n.
1. Limit, BOUNDARY, bourn, border, confine.
2. Leap, jump, spring, bounce.
Bound, v. a. Limit, border, terminate, circumscribe.
Bound, v. n.
1. Jump, leap, spring.
2. Rebound, spring back.
Bound, a. [Followed by to or for.] Destined, tending, going, on the way.
Boundary, n. Limit, border, confine, bourn, bound, verge, term, termination.
Bounden, a. Obligatory, binding, appointed.
Boundless, a. Unbounded, unlimited, unconfined, undefined, immeasurable, illimitable, infinite.
Bounteous, a. Liberal, BOUNTIFUL.
Bountiful, a. Liberal, munificent, beneficent,
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