BPage 353
- English Word Bouse Definition To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
- English Word Bouse Definition Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.
- English Word Bouser Definition A toper; a boozer.
- English Word Boustorphic Definition Boustrophedonic.
- English Word Boustrophedon Definition An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
- English Word Boustrophedonic Definition Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
- English Word Bousy Definition Drunken; sotted; boozy.
- English Word Bout Definition As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
- English Word Bout Definition A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
- English Word Boutade Definition An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
- English Word Boutefeu Definition An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
- English Word Boutonniere Definition A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
- English Word Bouts-rimes Definition Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
- English Word Bovate Definition An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
- English Word Bovey coal Definition A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
- English Word Bovid Definition Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
- English Word Boviform Definition Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
- English Word Bovine Definition Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
- English Word Bovine Definition Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
- English Word Bow Definition To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.