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  • English Word Bonbon Definition Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
  • English Word Bonce Definition A boy's game played with large marbles.
  • English Word Bonchretien Definition A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.
  • English Word Boncilate Definition A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
  • English Word Bond Definition That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
  • English Word Bond Definition The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
  • English Word Bond Definition A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
  • English Word Bond Definition Moral or political duty or obligation.
  • English Word Bond Definition A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.
  • English Word Bond Definition An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
  • English Word Bond Definition The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
  • English Word Bond Definition The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
  • English Word Bond Definition A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.
  • English Word Bond Definition To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
  • English Word Bond Definition To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
  • English Word Bond Definition A vassal or serf; a slave.
  • English Word Bond Definition In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
  • English Word Bond servant Definition A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
  • English Word Bond service Definition The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
  • English Word Bondage Definition The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
  • English Word Bondage Definition Obligation; tie of duty.
  • English Word Bondage Definition Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
  • English Word Bondager Definition A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
  • English Word Bondar Definition A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.
  • English Word Bonded Definition of Bond
  • English Word Bonded Definition Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.
  • English Word Bonder Definition One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
  • English Word Bonder Definition A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
  • English Word Bonder Definition A freeholder on a small scale.
  • English Word Bondholder Definition A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.