BOSSY
BOSS'Y, adjective Containing a boss; ornamented with bosses.His head reclining on his bossy shield.
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BOSTRY-CHITE
BOS'TRY-CHITE, noun A gem in the form of a lock of hair.
BOSVEL
BOS'VEL, noun A plant, a species of crowfoot.
BOT
BOT. [See Bots.]
BOTANIC
BOTAN'ICBOTAN'ICAL, adjective [See Botany.] Pertaining to botany; relating to plants in general; also, containing plants, as a botanic garden.
BOTANICAL
BOTAN'ICAL, a. [See Botany.] Pertaining to botany; relating to plants in general; also, containing plants, as a botanic garden.
BOTANICALLY
BOTAN'ICALLY, adverb According to the system of botany.
BOTANIST
BOT'ANIST, noun One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants or vegetables, their structure, and generic and specific differences.The botanist is he who can affi...
BOTANIZE
BOT'ANIZE, verb intransitive To seek for plants; to investigate the vegetable kingdom; to study plants.He could not obtain permission to botanize upon mount Sabber.
BOTANOLOGY
BOTANOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a plant, and discourse.] A discourse upon plants.
BOTANOMANCY
BOTANOM'ANCY, noun An ancient species of divination by means of plants, especially sage and fig leaves. Persons wrote their names and questions on leaves, which they exposed to ...
BOTANY
BOTANY, noun [Gr. a plant.] That branch of natural history which treats of vegetables; a science which treats of the different plants, and of the distinguishing marks by which e...
BOTARGO
BOTAR'GO, noun A relishing sort of food, made of the roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean, as an incentive to drink.
BOTCH
BOTCH, noun [Eng.patch.]1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection.BOTCHes and blains must all his flesh imboss.2. A patch, or the part of a garment patched or mended...
BOTCHER
BOTCH'ER, noun A clumsy workman at mending of old clothes, whether a tailor or cobbler.
BOTCHY
BOTCH'Y, adjective Marked with botches; full of botches.
BOTE
BOTE, noun [The old orthography of boot, but retained in law, in composition.1. In law, compensation; amends; satisfaction; as manbote, a compensation for a man slain. Also, pay...
BOTELESS
BO'TELESS, a In vain. [See Bootless.]
BOTETTO
BOTET'TO, noun A small thick fish of Mexico, about eight inches long, with a flat belly, and convex back. When taken out of the water it swells, and if kicked, will burst. Its l...
BOTH
BOTH, adjective Two, considered as distinct from others or by themselves; the one and the other.This word is often placed before the nouns with which it is connected.He understa...
BOTHER
BOTH'ER, the vulgar pronunciation of pother. [See Pother.]
BOTHNIAN
BOTH'NIAN, adjective Pertaining to Bothnia, a province of Sweden, and to a gulf of the Baltic sea, which is so called from the province, which it penetrates. Pinkerton uses Both...
BOTHNIC
BOTH'NICBOTOCH'ED, participle passive Patched clumsily; mended unskillfully; marked with botches.
BOTOCHED
BOTOCH'ED, pp. Patched clumsily; mended unskillfully; marked with botches.
BOTOTOE
BOTO'TOE, noun A bird of the parrot kind, of a fine blue color, found in the Philippine isles.
BOTRYOID
BO'TRYOIDBOTRYOI'DAL, adjective [Gr. a bunch of grapes, and form.]Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like grapes; as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small gloves.
BOTRYOLITE
BO'TRYOLITE, noun [Gr. supra, and stone.]Literally, grape-stone. This mineral occurs in mammilliary or botryoidal concretions, in a bed of magnetic iron in gneiss, near Arendal ...