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  • English Word Bulwark Definition That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
  • English Word Bulwark Definition The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
  • English Word Bulwark Definition To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
  • English Word Bulwarked Definition of Bulwark
  • English Word Bulwarking Definition of Bulwark
  • English Word Bum Definition The buttock.
  • English Word Bum Definition To make murmuring or humming sound.
  • English Word Bum Definition A humming noise.
  • English Word Bumbailiff Definition See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.
  • English Word Bumbard Definition See Bombard.
  • English Word Bumbarge Definition See Bumboat.
  • English Word Bumbast Definition See Bombast.
  • English Word Bumbelo Definition A glass used in subliming camphor.
  • English Word Bumbeloes Definition of Bumbelo
  • English Word Bumble Definition The bittern.
  • English Word Bumble Definition To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.
  • English Word Bumblebee Definition A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
  • English Word Bumboat Definition A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.
  • English Word Bumkin Definition A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
  • English Word Bummalo Definition A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.
  • English Word Bummed Definition of Bum
  • English Word Bummer Definition An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
  • English Word Bummery Definition See Bottomery.
  • English Word Bumming Definition of Bum
  • English Word Bump Definition To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
  • English Word Bump Definition To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
  • English Word Bump Definition A thump; a heavy blow.
  • English Word Bump Definition A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.
  • English Word Bump Definition One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."
  • English Word Bump Definition The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.