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  • English Word Bluster Definition Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
  • English Word Bluster Definition Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
  • English Word Blustered Definition of Bluster
  • English Word Blusterer Definition One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
  • English Word Blustering Definition of Bluster
  • English Word Blustering Definition Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
  • English Word Blustering Definition Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
  • English Word Blusteringly Definition In a blustering manner.
  • English Word Blusterous Definition Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
  • English Word Blustrous Definition Blusterous.
  • English Word Bo Definition An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
  • English Word Bo tree Definition 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 received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.
  • English Word Boa Definition A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
  • English Word Boa Definition A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
  • English Word Boa constrictor Definition A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Boanerges Definition Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.
  • English Word Boar Definition The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
  • English Word Board Definition A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
  • English Word Board Definition A table to put food upon.
  • English Word Board Definition Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
  • English Word Board Definition A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
  • English Word Board Definition A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
  • English Word Board Definition Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
  • English Word Board Definition The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
  • English Word Board Definition The border or side of anything.
  • English Word Board Definition The side of a ship.
  • English Word Board Definition The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
  • English Word Board Definition To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
  • English Word Board Definition To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
  • English Word Board Definition To enter, as a railway car.