BOARISH
BOARISH, adjective [from boar.] Swinish; brutal; cruel.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BOAST
BOAST, verb intransitive [Gr. to inflate; Latin fastus.]1. To brag, or vaunt one's self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one's own worth, property, or actions.2. ...
BOASTER
BOASTER, noun One who boasts, glories or vaunts ostentatiously.
BOASTFUL
BOASTFUL, adjective Given to boasting; ostentatious of personal worth or actions.
BOASTING
BOASTING, participle present tense Talking ostentatiously; glorying; vaunting.BOASTING, noun Ostentatious display of personal worth, or actions; a glorying or vaunting.Where is ...
BOASTINGLY
BOASTINGLY, adverb In an ostentatious manner; with boasting.
BOASTIVE
BOASTIVE, adjective Presumptuous. [Unusual.]
BOASTLESS
BOASTLESS, adjective Without ostentation.
BOAT
BOAT, noun1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail...
BOAT-BILL
BOAT-BILL, noun [boat and bill.] A genus of birds, the Cancroma, of two species, the crested and the brown; but by some ornithologists, they are considered as varieties of the s...
BOAT-FLY
BOAT-FLY or BOAT-INSECT, noun A genus of insects, hemipters, known in zoology by the generic term Notonecta.
BOAT-HOOK
BOAT-HOOK, noun [boat and hook.] an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat.
BOAT-ROPE
BOAT-ROPE, noun [boat and rope.] A rope to fasten a boat, usually called a painter.
BOAT-SHAPED
BOAT-SHAPED, adjective Having the shape of a boat; navicular; cymbiform; hollow like a boat; as the valve of some pericarps.
BOATABLE
BOATABLE, adjective Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
BOATING
BOATING, participle present tense Transporting in boats.BOATING, noun The act of practice of transporting in boats.1. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders by laying them...
BOATION
BOA'TION, noun [Latin boo.] A crying out; a roar. [Not used.]
BOATMAN
BOATMANBOATSMAN, noun [boat and man.] A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
BOATSMAN
BOATSMAN, n. [boat and man.] A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
BOATSWAIN
BOATSWAIN, noun In seamen's language, bosn.An officer on board of ships, who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables and cordage. His office is also, to...
BOB
BOB, noun Any little round thing, that plays loosely at the end of a string, cord, or movable machine; a little ornament or pendant that hangs so as to play loosely.Our common p...
BOB-TAILED
BOB'-TAILED, adjective Having the hair cut short.
BOB-WIG
BOB-WIG, noun [bob and wig.] A short wig.
BOBANCE
BOBANCE, noun bobans'. A boasting. [Not in use.]
BOBBED
BOB'BED, participle passive Beat of shaken; cheated; gained by fraud; deluded.
BOBBIN
BOB'BIN, noun A small pin or cylindrical piece of wood, with a head, on which thread is wound for making lace. A similar instrument, bored through to receive an iron pivot, and ...
BOBBING
BOB'BING, participle present tense Playing back and forth; striking; cheating; angling for eels.