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- English Word Bourd Definition To jest.
- English Word Bourder Definition A jester.
- English Word Bourdon Definition A pilgrim's staff.
- English Word Bourdon Definition A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
- English Word Bourdon Definition A kind of organ stop.
- English Word Bourgeois Definition A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
- English Word Bourgeois Definition A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
- English Word Bourgeois Definition Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
- English Word Bourgeoisie Definition The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
- English Word Bourgeon Definition To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
- English Word Bouri Definition A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
- English Word Bourn Definition Alt. of Bourne
- English Word Bourn Definition Alt. of Bourne
- English Word Bourne Definition A stream or rivulet; a burn.
- English Word Bourne Definition A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
- English Word Bournless Definition Without a bourn or limit.
- English Word Bournonite Definition A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
- English Word Bournous Definition See Burnoose.
- English Word Bourree Definition An old French dance tune in common time.
- English Word Bourse Definition An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
- English Word Bouse Definition To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
- English Word Bouse Definition Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.
- English Word Bouser Definition A toper; a boozer.
- English Word Boustorphic Definition Boustrophedonic.
- English Word Boustrophedon Definition An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
- English Word Boustrophedonic Definition Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
- English Word Bousy Definition Drunken; sotted; boozy.
- English Word Bout Definition As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
- English Word Bout Definition A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
- English Word Boutade Definition An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.