BULLS-EYE
BULL'S-EYE, noun [bull and eye.] Among seamen, a piece of wood in the form of a ring, answering the purpose of a thimble.1. Aldebaran, a star of the first magnitude in the const...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BULLY
BULL'Y, noun A noisy, blustering overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces, than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels.BULL'Y, verb transiti...
BULRUSH
BUL'RUSH, noun [bole, or boll, and rush.] A large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water, and without knots, says Johnson, but Dryden calls it, the knotty bulrush It is not ...
BULTEL
BUL'TEL, noun [See Bolt.] A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. [Not used.]
BULWARK
BUL'WARK, noun1. In fortification, a bastion, or a rampart; a mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed with bastions, curtains, etc.2. A fortif...
BUM
BUM, noun The buttocks; the part on which we sit.BUM, verb intransitive To make a noise.
BUMBAILIFF
BUMBA'ILIFF, noun [A corruption of bound bailiff.] In England, an under-bailiff; a subordinate civil officer, appointed to serve writs, and to make arrests and executions, and b...
BUMBARD
BUM'BARD, noun [See Bombard.]
BUMBOAT
BUM'BOAT, noun A small boat, for carrying provisions to a ship at a distance from shore.
BUMKIN
BUM'KIN, noun [See Bumpkin.] A short boom projecting from each bow of a ship, to extend the clue of the foresail to windward.1. A small out-rigger over the stern of a boat, to e...
BUMP
BUMP, noun [Latin bombus, and Eng. pomp., from swelling, thrusting out.]1. A swelling or protuberance.2. A thump; a heavy blow.BUMP, verb intransitive To make a loud, heavy or h...
BUMPER
BUMP'ER, noun A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over.
BUMPKIN
BUMP'KIN, noun [bump, large, swelling.] An awkward heavy rustic; a clown, or country lout.
BUMPKINLY
BUMP'KINLY, adjective Clownish. [Not used.]
BUNCH
BUNCH, noun1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; as the bunch on a camel's back.2. A cluster; a number of the same kind growing together; as a bunch of grapes.3. A number ...
BUNCHINESS
BUNCH'INESS, noun The quality of being bunchy, or growing in bunches.
BUNCHY
BUNCH'Y, adjective Growing in bunches; like a bunch; having tufts.
BUNDLE
BUN'DLE, noun1. A number of things put together.2. A roll; any thing bound or rolled into a convenient form for conveyance; as a bundle of lace; a bundle of hay.BUNDLE, verb tra...
BUNG
BUNG, noun1. The stopple of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.2. The hole or orifice in the bilge of a cast.BUNG, verb transitive To stop the orifice in the bilge of a cask wit...
BUNGLE
BUNG'LE, verb intransitive bung'gl. To perform in a clumsy, awkward manner; as, to bungle in making shoes.BUNG'LE, verb transitive To make or mend clumsily; to both; to manage a...
BUNGLER
BUNG'LER, noun A clumsy awkward workman; one who performs without skill.
BUNGLING
BUNG'LING, participle present tense Performing awkwardly.BUNG'LING, adjective Clumsy; awkwardly done.
BUNGLINGLY
BUNG'LINGLY, adverb Clumsily; awkwardly.
BUNK
BUNK, noun A case or cabin of boards for a bed; a word used in some parts of America.
BUNN
BUNN, or BUN, noun [Gr. a hill, and a cake offered to deities.]A small cake, or a kind of sweet bread.
BUNSING
BUN'SING, noun An animal found at the Cape of Good Hope, resembling the ferret, but twice as large. When pursued, it emits an intolerable stench.
BUNT
BUNT, noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail.BUNT, verb intransitive To swell out; as, the sail bunts.1. In popular language, to push with the horns; to butt. [See Poi...