BPage 459
- 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.