BPage 236
- English Word Boutefeu Definition An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
- English Word Boutonniere Definition A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
- English Word Bouts-rimes Definition Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
- English Word Bovate Definition An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
- English Word Bovey coal Definition A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
- English Word Bovid Definition Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
- English Word Boviform Definition Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
- English Word Bovine Definition Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
- English Word Bovine Definition Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
- English Word Bow Definition To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
- English Word Bow Definition To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- English Word Bow Definition To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
- English Word Bow Definition To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
- English Word Bow Definition To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
- English Word Bow Definition To bend; to curve.
- English Word Bow Definition To stop.
- English Word Bow Definition To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
- English Word Bow Definition To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
- English Word Bow Definition An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
- English Word Bow Definition Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
- English Word Bow Definition A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
- English Word Bow Definition An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
- English Word Bow Definition The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- English Word Bow Definition An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
- English Word Bow Definition An arcograph.
- English Word Bow Definition Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- English Word Bow Definition A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- English Word Bow Definition Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- English Word Bow Definition To play (music) with a bow.
- English Word Bow Definition To manage the bow.