BOMBARD
BOM'BARD, noun [bomb and ard, kind.]1. A piece of short thick ordnance with a large mouth, formerly used; some of them carrying a ball of three hundred pounds weight. It is call...
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BOMBARDED
BOMB'ARDED, participle passive Attacked with bombs.
BOMBARDIER
BOMBARDIE'R, noun One whose business is to attend the loading and firing of mortars.1. Carabus, a genus of insects of the beetle kind.
BOMBARDING
BOMB'ARDING, participle present tense Attacking with shells or bombs.
BOMBARDMENT
BOMB'ARDMENT, noun An attack with bombs; the act of throwing bombs into a town, fort or ship.
BOMBARDO
BOMB'ARDO, noun A musical instrument of the wind kind, much like the bassoon, and used as a base to the hautboy.
BOMBASIN
BOMBASIN, noun s as z. A name given to two sorts of stuffs, one of silk, the other crossed of cotton.
BOMBAST
BOM'BAST, noun Originally a stuff of soft loose texture, used to swell garments. Hence, high sounding words; an inflated style; fustian; a serious attempt, by strained descripti...
BOMBASTIC
BOMBAS'TIC, adjective Swelled; high sounding; bombast.
BOMBASTRY
BOM'BASTRY, noun Swelling words without much meaning; fustian.BOMB'-CHEST, noun [bomb and chest.] A chest filled with bombs or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to make ...
BOMBIAT
BOM'BIAT, noun A salt formed by the bombic acid and any base saturated.
BOMBIC
BOM'BIC, adjective [Latin bombyx, a silk worm.]Pertaining to the silk worm; as bombic acid.
BOMBILATION
BOMBILA'TION, noun [Latin bombilo.] Sound; report; noise. [Little used.]BOMB'-KETCHBOMB'-VESSEL, noun A small ship or vessel, constructed for throwing bombs into a fortress from...
BOMBYCINOUS
BOMBYC'INOUS, adjective [Latin bombycinus, from bombyx, a silk worm.]1. Silken; made of silk.2. Being of the color of the silk worm; transparent, with a yellow tint.
BON-CHRETIEN
BON-CHRETIEN, noun A species of pear.
BONA-FIDE
BO'NA-FIDE, [Latin] With good faith; without fraud or deception.
BONA-ROBA
BONA-ROBA, noun A showy wanton.
BONAIR
BONA'IR, adjective [Latin bonus.] Complaisant; yielding. [Not used.]
BONASUS
BONA'SUS, noun [Latin] A species of Bos, or wild ox, with a long mane; a native of Asia and Africa. It is of the size of a bull.
BOND
BOND, noun1. Anything that binds, as a cord, a chain, a rope; a band.2. Ligament; that which holds things together.3. Union; connection; a binding.Let walls be so constructed as...
BONDAGE
BOND'AGE, noun Slavery or involuntary servitude; captivity; imprisonment; restraint of a person's liberty by compulsion. In ancient English law, villenage.1. Obligation; tie of ...
BONDED
BOND'ED, participle passive Secured by bond, as duties. bonded goods are those for the duties on which bonds are given at the custom house.
BONDMAID
BOND'MAID, noun [bond and maid.] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, in opposition to a hired servant.
BONDMAN
BOND'MAN, noun [bond and man.] A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. In old English law, a villain, or tenant in villenage.
BONDSERVANT
BOND'SERVANT, noun [bond and servant.] A slave; one who is subjected to the authority of another, or whose person and liberty are restrained.
BONDSERVICE
BOND'SERVICE, noun [bond and service.] The condition of a bond-servant; slavery.
BONDSLAVE
BOND'SLAVE, noun [bond and slave.] A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.