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- English Word Borachte Definition A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
- English Word Boracic Definition Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
- English Word Boracite Definition A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
- English Word Boracous Definition Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
- English Word Borage Definition A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
- English Word Boragewort Definition Plant of the Borage family.
- English Word Boraginaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
- English Word Boragineous Definition Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
- English Word Boramez Definition See Barometz.
- English Word Borate Definition A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
- English Word Borax Definition A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
- English Word Borborygm Definition A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
- English Word Bord Definition A board; a table.
- English Word Bord Definition The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
- English Word Bord Definition See Bourd.
- English Word Bord service Definition Service due from a bordar; bordage.
- English Word Bordage Definition The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
- English Word Bordar Definition A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
- English Word Bordeaux Definition Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
- English Word Bordeaux Definition A claret wine from Bordeaux.
- English Word Bordel Definition Alt. of Bordello
- English Word Bordelais Definition Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
- English Word Bordeller Definition A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
- English Word Bordello Definition A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
- English Word Border Definition The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
- English Word Border Definition A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
- English Word Border Definition A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
- English Word Border Definition A narrow flower bed.
- English Word Border Definition To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- English Word Border Definition To approach; to come near to; to verge.