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- English Word Bossy Definition Ornamented with bosses; studded.
- English Word Bossy Definition A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.
- English Word Boston Definition A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
- English Word Boswellian Definition Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
- English Word Boswellism Definition The style of Boswell.
- English Word Bot Definition See Bots.
- English Word Botanic Definition Alt. of Botanical
- English Word Botanical Definition Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
- English Word Botanies Definition of Botany
- English Word Botanist Definition One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
- English Word Botanize Definition To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
- English Word Botanize Definition To explore for botanical purposes.
- English Word Botanized Definition of Botanize
- English Word Botanizer Definition One who botanizes.
- English Word Botanizing Definition of Botanize
- English Word Botanologer Definition A botanist.
- English Word Botanology Definition The science of botany.
- English Word Botanomancy Definition An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.
- English Word Botany Definition The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.
- English Word Botany Definition A book which treats of the science of botany.
- English Word Botany Bay Definition A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.
- English Word Botargo Definition A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
- English Word Botch Definition A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
- English Word Botch Definition A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- English Word Botch Definition Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
- English Word Botch Definition To mark with, or as with, botches.
- English Word Botch Definition To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
- English Word Botch Definition To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
- English Word Botched Definition of Botch
- English Word Botchedly Definition In a clumsy manner.