Blustrous
Blus″trous (�), a. Blusterous. Shak.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Bo
Bo (�), interj. [Cf. W. bw, an interj. of threatening or frightening; n., terror, fear, dread.] An exclamation used to startle or frighten. [Spelt also boh and boo.]
Bo tree
Bo″ tree′ (�). (Bot.) The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have receive...
Boa
Bo″a (bō″ȧ), n.; pl.Boas. [L. boa a kind of water serpent. Perh. fr. bos an ox.] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of...
Boa constrictor
Bo″a con‐strict″or (�). [NL. See Boa, and Constrictor.] (Zoöl.) A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appen...
Boanerges
‖Bo′a‐ner″ges (�). [Gr. �, fr. Heb. bnē hargem sons of thunder. — an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17.] Any declamatory and...
Boar
Boar (bōr), n. [OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. bār; akin to OHG. pēr, MHG. bēr, G. bär, boar (but not bär bear), and perh. Russ. borov' boar.] (Zoöl.) The uncastrated male of swine; sp...
Board
Board (bōrd), n. [OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. borð board, side of a ship, Goth. fōtu-baurd footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. ...
Board (2)
Board, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Boarded; p. pr. & vb. n.Boarding.] 1. To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. “The boarded hovel.” Cowper.2. [Cf. Board to accost, and ...
Board (3)
Board (�), v. i. To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same ...
Board (4)
Board, v. t. [F. aborder. See Abord, v. t.] To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.I will board her, though she chide as loudAs thunder when the clouds in autumn crac...
Boardable
Board″a‐ble (�), a. That can be boarded, as a ship.
Boarder
Board″er (�), n. 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one ...
Boarding
Board″ing, n. 1. (Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate.Sir F. Drak...
Boarfish
Boar″fish′ (�), n.(Zoöl.) (a) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; — so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout. (b) An Australi...
Boarish
Boar″ish, a. Swinish; brutal; cruel.In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.Shak.
Boast
Boast (�), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Boasted; p. pr. & vb. n.Boasting.] [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. pust...
Boast (2)
Boast, v. t. 1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.Lest bad men should boastTheir spe...
Boast (3)
Boast, v. t. 1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form...
Boast (4)
Boast, n. 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.Reason and morals? and where live they most,In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!Byron.2. The cause of boasting; occasion o...
Boastance
Boast″ance (�), n. Boasting. Chaucer.
Boaster
Boast″er (�), n. One who boasts; a braggart.
Boaster (2)
Boast″er, n. A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
Boastful
Boast″ful (�), a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. — Boast″ful‐ly, adv. — Boast″ful‐ness, n.
Boasting
Boast″ing, n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.When boasting ends, then dignity begins.Young.
Boastingly
Boast″ing‐ly, adv. Boastfully; with boasting. “He boastingly tells you.” Burke.
Boastive
Boast″ive (�), a. Presumptuous.