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  • English Word Bubble Definition The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
  • English Word Bubble Definition Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
  • English Word Bubble Definition A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
  • English Word Bubble Definition To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
  • English Word Bubble Definition To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
  • English Word Bubble Definition To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
  • English Word Bubble shell Definition A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
  • English Word Bubbled Definition of Bubble
  • English Word Bubbler Definition To cheat; to deceive.
  • English Word Bubbler Definition One who cheats.
  • English Word Bubbler Definition A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
  • English Word Bubbling Definition of Bubble
  • English Word Bubbling Jock Definition The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
  • English Word Bubbly Definition Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.
  • English Word Bubby Definition A woman's breast.
  • English Word Bubby Definition Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
  • English Word Bubo Definition An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
  • English Word Buboes Definition of Bubo
  • English Word Bubonic Definition Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
  • English Word Bubonocele Definition An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
  • English Word Bubukle Definition A red pimple.
  • English Word Buccal Definition Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
  • English Word Buccaneer Definition A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • English Word Buccaneer Definition To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
  • English Word Buccaneerish Definition Like a buccaneer; piratical.
  • English Word Buccinal Definition Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
  • English Word Buccinator Definition A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
  • English Word Buccinoid Definition Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
  • English Word Buccinum Definition A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
  • English Word Bucentaur Definition A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.