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- English Word Bogies Definition of Bogy
- English Word Bogle Definition A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
- English Word Bogsucker Definition The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
- English Word Bogtrotter Definition One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
- English Word Bogtrotting Definition Living among bogs.
- English Word Bogue Definition To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
- English Word Bogue Definition The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
- English Word Bogus Definition Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
- English Word Bogus Definition A liquor made of rum and molasses.
- English Word Bogwood Definition The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
- English Word Bogy Definition A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
- English Word Bohea Definition Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
- English Word Bohemia Definition A country of central Europe.
- English Word Bohemia Definition Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.
- English Word Bohemian Definition Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
- English Word Bohemian Definition Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.
- English Word Bohemian Definition A native of Bohemia.
- English Word Bohemian Definition The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.
- English Word Bohemian Definition A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
- English Word Bohemianism Definition The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.
- English Word Bohun upas Definition See Upas.
- English Word Boiar Definition See Boyar.
- English Word Boil Definition To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
- English Word Boil Definition To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
- English Word Boil Definition To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
- English Word Boil Definition To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
- English Word Boil Definition To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
- English Word Boil Definition To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
- English Word Boil Definition To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
- English Word Boil Definition To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.