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|Bodyhood ||n||Quality of having a body or being in a body.
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|Bolt ||phr||"At First Bolt" - at the frst go.
 
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|Bolt ||phr||"Bolt Down (Food)" - swallow one's food quickly (through hunger and greed, or because one is in a hurry).
 
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|Bolt ||phr||"Bolt From the Blue" - a sudden and unexpected event, especially one of of an unpleasant or catastrophic nature.
 
|Bolt ||phr||"Bolt From the Blue" - a sudden and unexpected event, especially one of of an unpleasant or catastrophic nature.
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|Bolt-uprightness ||n||The state or quality of having an upright posture.
 
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|Bond ||vb||To hold or bind together.
 
|Bond ||vb||To hold or bind together.
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|Bone ||phr||"Bone Idle" - idle, lazy, as an incurable fault.
 
|Bone ||phr||"Bone Idle" - idle, lazy, as an incurable fault.
 
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|Bone ||phr||"Bone Up (on)" - make a close study of, for some special purpose, as a foreign language for a trip of overseas). 2. learn or revise a subject.
 
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|Bone ||phr||"Bred in the Bone" - idiomatic: of a habit, personal characteristic - to ingrain, deeply instill or establish firmly within something natural; as, 'bred-in-the-bone goodness.'
 
|Bone ||phr||"Bred in the Bone" - idiomatic: of a habit, personal characteristic - to ingrain, deeply instill or establish firmly within something natural; as, 'bred-in-the-bone goodness.'
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|Bone ||phr||"Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret.
 
|Bone ||phr||"Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret.
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|Bone ||phr||"In One's Bones - to have a sense or intuition of.
 
|Bone ||phr||"In One's Bones - to have a sense or intuition of.
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|Bonewort ||n||Name given to various plants, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, including the daisy, golden-rod, centuary (erythiceae); yellow-mountain pansy (consolida minor).
 
|Bonewort ||n||Name given to various plants, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, including the daisy, golden-rod, centuary (erythiceae); yellow-mountain pansy (consolida minor).
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|Book ||phr||"Be In Somebody's Good Books" - be well regarded by another person.
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|Book ||phr||"Book a Seat" - purchase a ticket for a theatre, railway journey. In coaching days and in early days or railways, tickets sold at Booking offices were written out and entered up in the books by clerks.
 
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|Book ||phr||"Booked Up" - have no seats or rooms left (for a travelers, film or theatre-goers etc). 2. have no free time left, through pressure of engagements etc.
 
|Book ||phr||"Booked Up" - have no seats or rooms left (for a travelers, film or theatre-goers etc). 2. have no free time left, through pressure of engagements etc.
 
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|Book ||phr||"Book In" - enter or register the name of a guest at arrival at a hotel, motel.
 
|Book ||phr||"Book In" - enter or register the name of a guest at arrival at a hotel, motel.
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|Book ||phr||"Book of Life" - in the Bible language, a register of names of those who have inherited eternal life.
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|Book ||phr||"Book of the Dead" - collection of Egyptian texts, both religious and magical, concerned with guidance for the safe conduct of souls through Amenti (the Eygptiah Hades).
 
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|Book ||phr||"Book Up" - reserve accommodation in a hotel, on an aircraft or train.
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|Book ||phr||"One for the Book" - something worth noting or recording.
 
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|Book ||phr||"Out of One's Book" - out of one's reckoning, mistaken. 2. in the books (recorded, in existence).
 
|Book ||phr||"Out of One's Book" - out of one's reckoning, mistaken. 2. in the books (recorded, in existence).
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|Book ||phr||"Turn Up for the Books" - to be a surprizing developments.
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|Book-knowledge ||n||"An ounce of mother-wit, improved by observation, is worth a store of book-knowledge.
 
|Book-knowledge ||n||"An ounce of mother-wit, improved by observation, is worth a store of book-knowledge.
 
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|Bookland ||n||Also spelt Bocland. In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from fief, fee, service or such. The land was held chiefly by the nobility or denominated church holders. 2. land of inheritance grant from Folkland in Anglo-Saxon England by the king of the Witan by written charter or book. It was first given to the Church, but also to lay-folk. The place-name Buckland is probably derived from this.
 
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|Bow ||phr||"Bow Out" - to leave, retire, retreat, resign, withdrawn, go away.

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Old English sb English
Boar n A wild boar (sus scrofa) the wild ancestor of the domestic pig. 2. a male pig.
Board n (In OE.) a shield. 2. a hem, edge, coast, as in seaboard. 3. a border or side of anything. 4. a ship's side. 5. piece of timber sawn thin, as in floorboard, weatherboard. 6. stage of a theatre. 7. tablet on which games are played. 8. a table used for meals; food served at the table, as in board and lodgings 9. a table at which a council is held; person who meet at a council table. 10. any piece of furniture resembling a table, as in sideboard. 11. a backgammom board.
Board phr "Above Board" - open, without deceit, honestly, legitimate, reputably.
Board phr "Board Out" - have meals outside the place one's sleep. 2. give somebody food and lodging in a separate place from school, college etc where they work.
Board phr "Board Up" - cover with boards (because a house is no longer occupied; is about to be pulled down).
Board phr "Go By the Board" - be forgotten, ignored.
Board phr "Go Overboard" - act foolishly and in a excessive way.
Board phr "On the Drawing Board" - be planned in detail.
Board } phr "Pipe On Board" - welcome a person.
Board phr "Stiff as a Board" - rigid, very stiff (of one joints).
Board phr "Sweep The Board" - win everything.
Board phr "Take on Board" - acept an idea, p[roposal.
Boarish adj Swinish, brutal, cruel.
Boat n A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. 2. Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. 2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class. 3. a vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy 4. Note: boat is much used either as an adjective or in combination; as, boat builder or boat builder; boat building or boat building; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boat-keeper; boat load; boat race; boat rowing; boat song; boat-like; boat-shaped.
Boat vb To carry by boat or ship. 2. to take a boat, embark. 3. to go in a boat, to row, navigate. 3. to ride or go by boat. 4. to transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. 5. . to place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
Boat phr "Be in Someone Boat" - to meddle in the affairs of others.
Boat phr "Be In the Same Boat" - in the same situation or predicament. 2. to share a common set of difficulties.
Boat phr "Get off the Boat" - to disassociate oneself from some project.
Boat phr "Have an Oar in Another Boat" - to meddle in another affairs.
Boat phr "Miss the Boat" - to fail to take advantage of, or exploit, an opportunity.
Boat phr "To Rock the Boat" - to disturb the comfortable status quo.
Boat-bone n A bone of the carpus and tarsus, 'os naviculare'
Boat-house n A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept.
Boating n Boats in a collective sense. 2. the action of going by boat.
Boatman n A man who manages a boat.
Boatmanship n The art of managing a boat or boats.
Boatswain n The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors. 3. the petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen. 4. a kind of gull, the jaeger.
Boaty adj Fond of or given to boats.
Boc-leden n Latin, hence any literary language.
Boc-spel n (Book and story) - a history or narrative.
Bocstaff n A letter of the alphabet.
Bode n A message, announcement, herald, proclamation. 2. command, order, tiding. 3. premonition, omen, augaury, presentment, foreboding, prayer, petition. 4. on who makes an announcement, a herald, messenger.
Bode vb To announce, proclaim, preach. 2. to proclaim authoritatively, decree, order, bid, command (a person.) 3. to announce beforehand, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, presage. 4. 'well' or 'ill'-bode: give good or bad augur. 5. to signify. typify, present.
Bode vb To bid for, make an offer for.
Bodeful adj Full of presage, boding, ominous.
Bodeword n Commandment, behest, message, announcement, premonition, presage.
Bodied adj Having a specific form of body. 2. having form, corporeal or incarnate.
Bodiend n A preacher; ecclessiast. See: friend, fiend, healend, waldend, shapend, mightend, almightend, milciend, slinkend, speliend, stygand.
Bodily adj Of, or relating to, concerning the body. 2. having a material form, physical, corporeal. 3. real, actual,put into execution.
Bodily adv In or by a body, physically.
Bodily adv In a manner of unspiritually, worldly.
Bodily fear n A fear of bodily harm for another person.
Bodily-hood n Bodlihood: of a corporeal nature or state.
Bodilyness n Boldliness: corporeality, the quality of being bodily.
Bodilywise adj Corporeally, in the body.
Bodiness n The state or quality of having having bodily form. 2. corporeality, material condition.
Boding n Annunciation, proclamation, preaching, presentment, prognostication.
Boding adj That bodes, portending, presaging, ominous.
Bodingly adv In a boding, portending, presaging, ominous manner.
Bodiship n Corporeality, material, substance or condition.
Body n The physical frame. 2. the physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. 3. the fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. 4. corpse. 5. (archaic or informal except in compounds) - a person. 6. the torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). 7. the largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. 8. (archaic) the section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. 9. the content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. 10. a bodysuit. 11. (computer programming) the code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.

Coherent group. 13. group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. 14. an organization, company or other authoritative group. 15. unified collection of details, knowledge or information. 16. material entity. 17. any physical or materail object. 18. substance; physical presence. 19. comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). 20. an agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable, as the English Channel as a body of water. 21. a nonpareil face on an agate body

Body vb To furnish with a body, to embody. 2. to give a body, consistence, or strength to (lit. & fig.) 3. to draw up or form troops; to form in a body.
Body phr "A Body Blow" - something that effects one or one's plans badly, severely etc., a stroke of bad luck, bad news, adverse criticism
Body phr "Body and Soul" - completely, with all one's energy, devotion etc.
Body phr "Body Forth" - to represent in one's bodily form form. 2. to give mental shape to.
Body phr "Body Out" - to give body or a body to. 2. to fill out a skeleton. 3. to give mental shape to. 4. to put an idea in outward shape or tangible form. 5. to exhibit in outward reality. 6. to represent, symbolize. 7. to indicate to betaken.
Body phr "Have No Body" - lack substance.
Body phr "Keep Body and Soul Together" - to keep alive.
Body phr "Over My Dead Body" - only if my most vigorous opposition fails.
Body phr "Own Somebody Body and Soul" - control somebody completely.
Body phr "The Seven Bodies" - the seven metals supposed by alchemists to corespond with the seven planets. The Sun (or Apollo) - Gold; The Moon (or Diana) - Silver; Mercury - Quicksilver; Venus - Copper; Jupiter - Tin; Mars - Iron; Saturn - Lead.
Bodyhood n Quality of having a body or being in a body.
Body-like adj Like a body, real, solid. 2. in a body form; bodily. like, resembling a body, real, solid.
Body-mind n "We know ourselves as 'body-mind' if by that be meant to co-existent, independent existence." 2. the defenders of this view speak not of a body-mind, seeking to identify by the hyphen the compound word in monastic identity of the inseparable state of the bodily-mental corporeality.
Bodysome adj Corporeal.
Body-soul n Body and soul regarded as a unified whole.
Body-stead n The nave of a church.
Bold n Dwelling, habitation, house, habitation (appears as "botl")
Bold vb To be or show oneself to be bold. 2. to become bold, grow strong or big.
Bold adj Of persons: stout-hearted, courageous, daring, fearless, opposite to timid, or fearful. 2. of words & actions: showing or requiring courage, daring, brave. 3. strong, mighty, big. 4. of grain: well-filled, plump, strong, fierce. 5. showing, daring, vigour, licence of conception or expression, vigorous, striking. 6. standing out, 'striking to the eye' 7. of typing or blue: boldface. 8. nautical language: applied to a coast or coastline rising steeply from the deep water; any broad, steep or projecting rock-face. 9. of a ship: broad in the bow.
Bold phr "Bold as Brass" - impudent, aggressive; defiant; in a shameless, insolent, manner.
Bold phr "Make or be Bold with" - to embolden, encourage. 2. to be so bold as venture, so far as, take the liberty (to do a thing) 3. to take liberties with, make free with. 4. in a negative sense: audacious, presumptuous, too forward, immodest.
Bold phr "Make so Bold As" - presume, take the liberty.
Bolden vb To make bold, embolden, encourage. 2. to take courage (to do something); be bold.
Bolden adj Swollen. 2. to make bold.
Boldening n The state or condition of being bold; emboldening.
Bold-hearted adj Brave, courageous, fearless, daring, stout-hearted.
Boldhood n Bolden, audacity.
Boldly adv In a bold manner, courageously, daringly, fearlessly. 2. in a bad or negative sense: with effrontery, impudently, shamelessly, presumptuously. 3. confidently, with assurance, without doubt, without hesitation. 4. with bold expression or handling; strongly, vigorously, with the shakes, boldly.
Boldly adj Bold-looking.
Boldness n Courage, daring, fearlessness. 2. confidence, assurance, security. 3. boldship.
Boldness phr "Take Boldness To" - to venture, to take the liberty (to do a thing) 2. to be impudent, presumptious
Boldness phr "Upon the Boldness of" - in reliance on, on the security of,
Boldship n Boldness.
Boldwordy adj Bold, outspoken in speech.
Bolg(h)en adj To swell, be proud or angry. 2. swollen with rage, anger; wrathful. 3. physically swollen.
Boll n .Old English bolla "bowl, cup, pot," merged with Middle Dutch bolle "round object," borrowed 13c., both from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole ). Influenced in meaning by Latin bulla "bubble, ball," ultimately from the same PIE root. Extended c.1500 to "round seed pod of flax or cotton." Boll weevil is 1895, American English. 2. a bowl, vesicle, bud.
Boll vb To swell, increase.
Bolled adj Swollen, enflated, ptotuberant. 2. swollen with pride; puffed up. 3. embossed, embellished.
Bolling n Swelling, inflating, enlarging. 2. excessive drinking, boozing, as in a 'boll-fellow.'
Bollock(s) n Testicles, goolies.
Bolly adj Covered in bubbles.
Bolster n A large cushion or pillow.  2. a pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. 3. (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons which give the front wheels enough clearance to turn. 4. short, horizontal, structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam. 5. sometimes also called a pillow or cross-head. 6. the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. 8. the part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle. 9. the metallic end of a pocket knife handle. 10. (architecture) the rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. 11. (military, historical) a block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
Bolster vb To brace, reinforce, secure or support.
Bolstered adj Propped up, supported, padded, stuffed.
Bolstering n Action of maintaining or upholding almost always in a regular way or service;in modern use the factitious propping up of what can not stand of itself.
Bolster-shaped adj In the form or shape of a bolster.
Bolt n An arrow; hence the phrases 'bolt-upright' - straight up like an arrow; and 'bolt on end,' perpendicular. The word 'thunderbolt' thus means the arrow or weapon, that falls to the earth, after being discharged from the thunder-god. 2. a projectile, crossbow bolt. 3. the act of bolting; the act of breaking away, the act of breaking away from a political party. 4. a sudden spring or start. 5. (door latch; joiner)
Bolt phr "At First Bolt" - at the frst go.
Bolt phr "Bolt Down (Food)" - swallow one's food quickly (through hunger and greed, or because one is in a hurry).
Bolt phr "Bolt From the Blue" - a sudden and unexpected event, especially one of of an unpleasant or catastrophic nature.
Bolt phr "Bolt Out" - (lit. and Fig.)to exclude, shut in, shut up, as (bolting a door)
Bolt phr "Make a Shaft or Bolt of It" - to accept the issue whatever it may be, to run with the risk; to venture.
Bolt phr "Shoot One's Bolt" - to lose one's temper.
Bolt phr "Sit Bolt Upright" - to sit up suddenly and rigidly straight. 2. to stand on end.
Bolt phr "To Bolt" (sl.) - to run away, go straight away or out of sight quickly (like a arrow).
Bolted adj Fastened together with bolts. 2. connected or assembled using a bolt. 3. secured as a door by a bolt. 4. started, dislodged. 5. struck suddenly like a bolt of lightning. 6. escaped, fleed, left town, ran away with haste. 7. swallowed of food and drink quickly, gulped down. 8. blurted out, utter forcefully.
Bolthole n A means of escape from a hiding place. 2. place of escape or refuge.
Bolting n The action of bolting. 2. a hasty utterance, sudden blurting out. 3. a sudden starting off, a hurrying-away, a flight or running away (from a political party.)
Boltless adj Without or not having bolts.
Bolt-upright adj To carry oneself with a straight or upright posture.
Bolt-uprightness n The state or quality of having an upright posture.
Bond n Phonetic variation of bond - see 'band' OE. 'bonda' 'bunda' - husbandman, householder, husband, master of the house. 2. peasant, churl, , vassal, serf, one in bondage, to a superior, state of serfdom, slavery, not free, in bondage.
Bond vb To hold or bind together.
Bondhold n Tenure in bond service. 2. a tenure of a bond land.
Bondholder n A tenant in bond service or bond-land.
Bondhood n Condition of a bond or vassal. 2. bondage, vassalage.
Bonding n The action of the verb: to hold or bind together. 2. the storage of goods in a bond-house.
Bond-land n Land held by bondage tenure.
Bond-less adj Free from bonds, unfettered, unrestrained.
Bondling n A slave, a slave child.
Bond-maid n A slave girl.
Bond-man n Villien, serf, slave.
Bond-man-blind n The game of "Blindman's bluff.'
Bond-manship n State or condition of a bond-man or bondsman. 2. serfdom, slavery.
Bondship n Condition or state of bondsman. 2. serfdom, bondage, suretyship.
Bondsman n One who becomes Surety by bond. 2. a man in bondage, a villein, a serf, a slave.
Bondswoman n Bondwoman or female slave.
Bone n A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. 2. any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. 3. a bone of a fish; a fishbone. 4. one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. 5. anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 6. (figuratively) the framework of anything. 7. on off-white colour, like the colour of bone; bone colour. 8. (US, informal) a dollar. 9. (sl) an erect penis; a boner, 10. (sl) dominoes or dice.
Bone adj Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Bone vb To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. 2. to fertilize with bone.  3. to put whalebone into, as to 'bone stays' (in civil engineering) 4. to make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. 5. (vulgar, slang, of a man) to have sexual intercourse with. (usually with "up") 6. to throw out spicules of bone. 7. to deprive of bone; to take out the bones; fillet. 8, to study, work hard and diligently, as 'bone up'.
Bone phr "Bone Dry" -completely dry.
Bone phr "Bone Idle" - idle, lazy, as an incurable fault.
Bone phr "Bone in One's Mouth" - said of a ship speeding along throwing up spray or foam under the bows.
Bone phr "Bone Up (on)" - make a close study of, for some special purpose, as a foreign language for a trip of overseas). 2. learn or revise a subject.
Bone phr "Bred in the Bone" - idiomatic: of a habit, personal characteristic - to ingrain, deeply instill or establish firmly within something natural; as, 'bred-in-the-bone goodness.'
Bone phr "Feel Something In One's Bones" - suspect something without having any real evidence for it.
Bone phr "Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret.
Bone phr "Have a Bone in One's Throat" - I cannot talk; I cannot answer your question.
Bone phr "In One's Bones - to have a sense or intuition of.
Bone phr "Make No Bones of It" - to make no objects or have any scruples about. 2. be brutally frank.
Bone phr "Make Old Bones" - live to a great ahge.
Bone phr "Near to the Bone" - miserly, niggardly.
Bone phr "Put Flesh and Bone on Something" - to supply details of a proposal previously only revealed in outline.
Bone phr "The Bare Bones" - (of a story) nothing but the essential elements.
Bone phr "Throw Somebody a Bone" - to fob a person off with a symbolic but unimportant gesture.
Bone phr "Work Ones Fingers to the Bone" - to work (usually someone other) extremely hard and long.
Boned adj Deprived of bones; filleted. 2. having high bone structure. 3. furnished with or having bones.
Bone dry adj Completely and thoroughly dry.
Bone-frame n Skeleton.
Bonehead n Fool, idiot, simpleton.
Bone-headness n Idiotcy, stupidity, foolishness.
Bone-house n A charnel-house; a mortuary, flesh-house; a coffin; the human body.
Bonefire n Bonfire; a fire in which bonews are cremated.
Bonefire vb To illuminate with bonfires; to make bonfires.
Bonfire n A fire in which bones are cremated. 2. a fire to burn unwanted or 'disreputable' items or people; such as proscribed works or heretics; a balefire. 3. a large, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something. 4. Guy Fawkes night.
Bone-house n A charnel-house; a mortuary, flesh-house; a coffin; the human body.
Bone-know n Osteology.
Boneless adj Without bones; destitute of bones, mainly backbone; invertebrate. 2. lack energy and stamina; weak and insipid.
Bonelessness n Condition of having no bones.
Bone-like adj Resembling or characteristic of bone.
Bone-rotting adj The decaying of bones by becoming brittle.
Bone-salt n The main chemical compound in bones.
Bone-shaker n Any old crock of a vehicle.
Bonewort n Name given to various plants, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, including the daisy, golden-rod, centuary (erythiceae); yellow-mountain pansy (consolida minor).
Bone-yard n Cemetery, graveyard.
Book n A hard-cover book. 2. a long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. 3. a major division of a long work, as Genesis is the first book of the Bible. 4. record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 5. convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 6. the script of a musical. 7. records of the accounts of a business. 8. long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. 9. (law) a colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement. 10.(sports) a document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 11. (sports, by extension) a list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.  
Book vb To reserve (something) for future use. 2. to write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 3. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 4. (sports) to issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 5. (intransitive, slang) to travel very fast. 6. to record bets as bookmaker. 7. (law student slang) to receive the highest grade in a class. 8. to grant or assign (land) by charter.
Book phr "Be In Somebody's Black Books" - be out of favor with a person.
Book phr "Be In Somebody's Good Books" - be well regarded by another person.
Book phr "Bell, Book and Candle"
Book phr "Book a Seat" - purchase a ticket for a theatre, railway journey. In coaching days and in early days or railways, tickets sold at Booking offices were written out and entered up in the books by clerks.
Book phr "Booked Up" - have no seats or rooms left (for a travelers, film or theatre-goers etc). 2. have no free time left, through pressure of engagements etc.
Book phr "Book In" - enter or register the name of a guest at arrival at a hotel, motel.
Book phr "Book of Books" - the Bible.
Book phr "Book of Life" - in the Bible language, a register of names of those who have inherited eternal life.
Book phr "Book of the Dead" - collection of Egyptian texts, both religious and magical, concerned with guidance for the safe conduct of souls through Amenti (the Eygptiah Hades).
Book phr "Book Up" - reserve accommodation in a hotel, on an aircraft or train.
Book phr "Bring Somebody to Book" - find evidence to arrest. 2. try or punish someone.
Book phr "Go by the Book" - to do something exactly as by rules state; to do something by the book.
Book phr In One's Book" - in one's own opinion.
Book phr "In One's Good Books" - liked.
Book phr "Kiss the Book" - to kiss the Bible or New Testament, after taking an oath, the kiss of confirmation or promise to act in accordance with the words of the oath, and the public acknowledge of its sanctity
Book phr "On the Books" - on the list of candidates for membership to a club, for employment etc.
Book phr "One for the Book" - something worth noting or recording.
Book phr "Out of My Books" - not in favor, no longer on my list of friends.
Book phr "Out of One's Book" - out of one's reckoning, mistaken. 2. in the books (recorded, in existence).
Book phr "Play by the Book" - to apply the rules strictly.
Book phr "Read like a (Open)Book" - to be able to discern someone's thoughts from his or her body language or other behaviour. 2. to know like a book.
Book phr "Take a Leaf Out of Somebody's Book" - to model oneself on another person. 2. copy someone's example.
Book phr "Talk One's Book" - to present arguments which, while plausible, are really designed to foster one's vested interest.
Book phr "Throw the Book At" - to charge with or convict of as many crimes as possible. 2. to apply the harshest punishment to
Book phr "To Be Booked" - not to be available; to have a previous commitment in one's engagement book or diary.
Book phr "Turn Up for the Books" - to be a surprizing developments.
Book phr "Without One's Book" - without authority. 2. from memorty, by rote.
Book-answerer n Critic.
Book-binder n A person whose profession is binding pages together to form a book; bibliopegist.
Book-binding n The art or craft of binding books.
Book-borrower n One who borrows books from a library or other sources.
Book-burning n The destruction of books and writings regarded as harmful or subversive.
Bookcraft n Book-learning, literary skill, literature.
Book-dealer n One who deals in books.
Booked adj nstructed by books, entered in books, registered, conveyed by character, listed, scheduled.
Book-end n One of the ends of an ornamental book props.
Booker n A writer of books, a scribe, one who enters in a book, a book-keeper.
Book-fell n A skin prepared for writing on a sheet of vellum or parchment, a vellum manuscript.
Book-flood n The deluge of books coming on the market around Christmas time.
Bookful adj As much as fills a book. 2. the entire contents of a book. 3. full of knowledge of books gathered from books.) 4. full or stored with books.
Book-hand n Writing in which each letter is formed separately and not joined to the others.
Book-hoard n A repository for books or documents (an exclusively OE word.) 2. a library; a biblioteque.
Bookhood n Knowledge of books, scholarship. 2. the estate of dignity of the book.
Book-hunt vb To follow the pursuits of a book-hunter or searcher of old and rare books.
Booking n The act or procees of writing something down in a book or books, esp. in accounting. 2. a reservation for a service, such as an accommodation in a hotel. 3. the engagement of a performer for a particular performer. 4. the issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, results in a yellow card or (another booking) a red card , that results in the player being sent off the playing field. 5. the process of photocopying, finger printing and recording identity data of a suspect following arrest.
Bookish adj Of, or belonging to a book or books, literary. 2. addicted to the reading of books, studious. 3. disparagingly acquainted with books.
Bookishly adv In a bookish way, fondness for books or study, learning (somewhat contemptously)
Book-keep vb To do book-keeping. 2. the skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, eg. income and expenses.
Book-keeper n A person responsible for keeping financial records and business records and documents,
Book-keeping n The act of being responsible for keeping financial record and documents.
Book-knowledge n "An ounce of mother-wit, improved by observation, is worth a store of book-knowledge.
Bookland n Also spelt Bocland. In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from fief, fee, service or such. The land was held chiefly by the nobility or denominated church holders. 2. land of inheritance grant from Folkland in Anglo-Saxon England by the king of the Witan by written charter or book. It was first given to the Church, but also to lay-folk. The place-name Buckland is probably derived from this.
Book-learned adj Learned in books, or knowldge acquired from them (usually in a disparaginging way)
Book-learnedness n State or quality of knowledge learned or acquired from books.
Book-less adj Ignorant of books, unscholarly, destitute of books.
Book-like adj Like or resembling a book.
Bookling n A little book.
Booklore n Book-learning, knowledge given from books.
Book-lover n One who loves books, loves to read books; bibliophile.
Bookmaker n One who makes books.
Bookman n One who sells or deals in books.
Book-minded adj Bookish, literary, scholastic; pedantic.
Book-mindness n The state or quality of being bookish, pedantic, etc.
Bookmonger n A bookseller or dealer in books.
Bookness n Bookishness.
Book of God n Bible
Book of the Dead n The ancient Eygptiian funerary text.
Book of the Living n The book Amun-Ra of the ancient Eygptian made of pure gold and containing ancient spells and incantation that could take away living mortals.
Book of Words n Libretto.
Book-read adj Well read; skilled in or with book-learning.
Book-reading n A reading from a book by the author, usually at it's public launch. 2. a reading from a book on radio, usually to assist the sight-impaired.
Book-rights n The intellectual property and copyright relating to the publication and use of the book.
Bookroom n A room in which books are kept; a library.
Bookseller n A person engaged in the selling of books. 2. a business that sells books.
Bookselling n The occupation of buying and selling books.
Bookshelf n A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference
Bookshop n A shop that sells books; a bookstore.
Book-shy adj A reluctance or unwilling to read books.
Bookspeech n The speech of books, stiff, formal and sometimes prtentious.
Book spell n Boc speed.
Bookstand n A case or stand for books.
Booksy adj Characterized or derived from books. 2. given to books, bookish.
Bookwards adv In the direction of books,; in print.
Bookwise adj In the manner or form of a book.
Bookword n An inkhorn term or pretentious, rare word.
Book-work n Accounts, book-keeping works. 2. the art and science of formatting books. 3. work done with the aid of textboks.
Book-worm n An avid reader of books. 2. of various insects that infect books.
Book-worship n The ardent love of books and reading.
Bookwright n A maker or author of books.
Boor n OE: gebur. dweller, farmer.
Boor vb To dwell.
Boot n (Bote), good, advantage, profit, avail, use. 2. well-bing, bote. 3. that thing which is thrown in and given in addition. 4. to make up deficiency of value, a minimum compensation, odds. 5. the repair of decaying structuresm eg. bridges (bridgebote); also the levied contribution for keeping these in repair. 6. the right of the tenant to take timber, etc. for repairs, fixing and other necessary purpose from the landlords estate; common of estover; firebote, housebote, hedgebote. 7. a medicinal cure or remedy. 8. help or deliverance from evil or peril; assistance, relief, remedy, rescue. 9. the making amands for mischief or wrong doing; amends made. 10. compensation made, according to OE. usage for injury or wrongdoing, reparation, amends, satisfaction, manbote, inbote, thiefbote. 11. the expiation of sin, an offering by way of atonement, repentance, sin-offering, penance.
Boot phr "Boot of Bale" - a means or agent of help, also a personal agent, a helper.
Boot phr "Boots On the Other Foot" - the other person now has the advantage.
Boot phr "Do One's Boot" to render, help, remedy, to be of service, advantage, to good to.
Boot phr "Give Somebody the Boot" - to terminate a person's appointment.
Boot phr "Go in Boots and All" - do something very roughly.
Boot phr "Have One's Heart in One's Boots" - to be terrified.
Boot phr "Have One's Heart Sink into One's Boots" - be in despair, dismay.
Boot phr "Hang Up One's Boots" - to retire.
Boot phr "It Is No Boot' - it avails me not. 2. it is of no use.
Boot phr "Lick One's Boots" - to show humility or fawn.
Boot phr "Like Old Boots" - vigorously.
Boot phr "Make No Boot of " - to make profit, gain by, to gain.
Boot phr "None Other Boot" - no other resource, no (other) alternative.
Boot phr "Put the Boot in" - further harm somebody who is already who is already distressed or harmed.
Boot phr "Quake In One's Boots" - to be afraid.
Boot phr "The Boot Is On the Other Foot" - the real facts are the other way around.
Boot phr "To Boot (Bote)" - to the good; to the advantage, into the bargain, in addition, besides, moreover. 2. phrases, 'in appreciatory phrases, "King Alfred to Boot!"
Boot phr "Tough as Old Boots" - resilient and hard to learn.
Bore vb To make a hole through something. 3. to make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. 4. to bore for water or oil. 5. to form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus. 6. to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. 7. to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. 8. to be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns. 9. to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Bore n A hole drilled or milled through something. 2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired. 3. a tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. 4. a capped well drilled to tap artesian water. 5. the place where the well exists
Bore phr "Full bore Ahead" - proceed.
Born adj
Born sfx Born in or native to a place, as 'English-born'. 2. with respect to the birth order, as 'firstborn child.'
Born phr "Born and Bred" - born, reared and educated in a specified place, in a specified manner.
Born phr "Born in the Purple" - born of royal or very aristocratic parents; a privileged member of society.
Born phr "Born with a Silver Spoon in One's Mouth" - born of wealthy parents; born the heir to a fortune, or comfortable living.
Born phr "Not Born Yesterday" - not be naive.
Born-again adj Regenerated, revitalized,
Borne adj Carried, sustained, endured.
Borough n Old English burgh "stronghold, fortress, borough'; influenced by bergh "hill," and berwen "to defend, take refuge." 2. fortress, castle, or citadel; simply a large building. 3. court, a manor house. 4. a fortified town, a town possessing municipal organisation. 5. any place larger than a village. 6. an incorporated town, or village. 2, a town having a chief warden or burgess-master or borough-master larger than a village. 7. a town which sends a presenative to parliament.
Borough-bote n Burgh-bote: a tax for repairing of a fortress.
Borough-breaking n Burgh-breaking : burgulary.
Borough-folk n the people of the town.
Borough-holder n In some yorkshire boroughs: a person who holds property by burgage tenure.
Boroughhood n The state of being a borough.
Borough-kenning n Barbican.
Borough-kind n Of the nature of a borough.
Borough-man n Townsfolk, citizen, burgess.
Borough-monger n One who trades in parliamentary seats for boroughs.
Borough-mote n Burgh-mote: Judicial assembly of a borough.
Borough-reeve n A governor of a town or city, especially during the Norman Conquest, representing the king's authority for fiscal and other purposes in borough. 2. a chief municiapal officer in certain unincorporated english towns.
Boroughship n A township, the fact of constituting a borough or township. 2. the condition of being for //// the good behaviour of neighbours.
Borough-town n A town which is a borough.
Borough-were n The people or community of a town; the townsmen.
Borrow vb To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. 2. to adopt (an idea) as one's own. 3. to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. 4. to adopt a word from another language. 5. in arithmetic subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result. 5. to lend. 6. to temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). 7. to feign or counterfeit.  8. to give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership)
Borrowed adj That which has been borrowed.
Borrowed phr "Living On Borrowed Time" - an unexpected extension of time, especially of a person. 2. to live longer than expected.
Borrower n One who borrows.
Borrowgang n Suretyship, the responsibility incurred by a surety.
Borrowing n An instance of borrowing something.
Borrowing phr "Ask in Borrowing" - to ask for a loan.
Borrowing-days n The last three days of March (old reckoning) in Scottish folklore to have been borrowed from April and supposed to be especially stormy.
Borrow-pit n In costruction and civil engineering, an area which material, usually soil, gravel, sand, has been dug up for use at another (usually nearby) location.
Bosom n (Originally meaning: arm?) women's breast. 2. the cavity of the stomach; one of the chambers of the heart, 3. the womb. part of the dress which covers the breast; the front of a shirt. 4. a curved recess, a cavity, a hollow interior, a sinus. 5. a hull or hold of a ship. 6. applied to the surface of the sea, a lake, a river or on the ground (with various association in the literal sense. 7. a concave bend in a coastline, or the part of the sea embraced by it; a bay. 8. the breast considered as the seat of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions and desires. 9. repository of secret thoughts and counsels; hence used for inward thoughts.
Bosom n " Bosom Friend" (The Friend of One's Bosom) - one's best friend.
Bosom vb To form a bosom, belly. 2. to put into a bosom, to embosom, to take to the bosom, embrace. 3. fig. to recieve into intimate companionship. 4. to have familiar interaction. 5. to hide a secret in the bosom. 6. to take to heart. 7. to keep in mind.
Bosom-child n Chershed child or offspring.
Bosom-devil n Torment of profound guilt and guiltiness.
Bosomed adj Having a bosom, shaped like a bosom. 3. enclsed, hidden, with bated breath.
Bosomer n One who or that which bosoms (in various senses)
Bosom-felt adj Deeply heart-felt emotion. 2. private, confidential, intimate.
Bosom-friend n Close, personal and intimate friend.
Bosom-friendship n Close and deep friendship.
Bosomful adj Bosomy, full-bossomed.
Bosom-hell n Deep emotional anguish.
Bosoming adj Embracing, taken into aone's bosom.
Bosom-throes n Struggle and agony of emotional torment.
Bosomy adj Full of secluded recesses, embracing. 2. of a woman having prominent breasts.
Boten vb To be better, to amend, recover health, be healed. 2. to make better in health, to heal, cure, boot, bote.
Botener n A healer, a curer, restorer.
Botening n Healing, restoring, curing.
Both adj ?Pronoun, conjunction: there are a number of theories, all similar, and deriving the word from the tendency to say "both the." One is that it is from the extended base of Old English begen. Another traces it to the rare late Old English by ba þa "both these," from ba (begen) + þa, a plural of se "that." A third theory traces it to Old Norse baðir "both, and "both the."
Both phr "Play Both Ends Against the Middle" - risky action of trying to play one's opponents off against each other.
Bottle n A dwelling, habitation, building; from Middle English bottle, botle, buttle, from Old English botl, bold , abode, house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple. Related to Old English byldan (“to build, construct”).
Bottom n The foundation, base, basis, footing. 3. the ground under a plant; the soil in which it grows. that which underlies or supports a thing. 4. a deep place, depth in the sea or land, abyss. 5. a ground or bed under the water, or a lake, sea, river. 6. dregs, sediment of liquor. 7. the lowest surface or part of a thing, the base. 8. the posterior. 9. the lap. 10. the seat of a chair. 9. the cocoon of the silk worm.
Bottom vb To put a bottom to. 2. to find a bottom or foundation. 3. to serve as a bottom for; fig, to establish firmly. 4. to rest as on foundation, to be based, to be grounded,(lit. and fig.) 5. to wind as a skein. 6. to reach the bottom of. 7. to drain to thr bottom; empty. 8. to reach the bottom. 9. to get to the bottom of; understanding thoroughly, reach the bottom of..
Bottom phr "Be At The Bottom of" - to underlie, to be real author or source of.
Bottom phr "Be At the Bottom of the Ladder" - be the most junior position in some hierarchy.
Bottom phr "Bottom Falls Out Of" - collapses; gives way.
Bottom phr "(Forgive) From the Bottom of One's Heart" - to forgive sincerely and completely.
Bottom phr "Get to The Bottom Of" - to reach the bottom of, to drill down, understand thoroughly.
Bottom phr "Hit Rock Bottom" - the lowest point possible.
Bottom phr "Knock the Bottom Out Of" - to be at the bottom; at the bottom, in reality as distinguished from a superficial.
Bottom phr "One Bottom Drawer" - a girl or young woman's collection of clothes, linen etc towards her marriage (although she may collect these items long before she has any actual plans of marriage).
Bottom-bed n The lowest stratum of a formation of rocks. 2. the stratum.
Bottomed adj Having a bottom; furnished with a bottom of some special material or form, as in composition. 2. covered at the bottom or foundation. 3. founded, based, grounded (mostly fig.)
Bottomedness n The quality of resting upon the a sure foundation. 2. stability.
Bottomer n One who puts a bottom to. 2. one who works or lives at the lowest stratum of society.
Bottom-ground n The basis, reason, as 'the bottom-ground of his wickedness.'
Bottom-heavy adj More weight at the top than the bottom.
Bottoming n The act of putting a bottom to anything. 2. the act of setting a sound foundation.
Bottom-lands n Low-lying stretch of level lands near a river.
Bottomless adj That has no bottom. 2. without a foundation, baseless, inexhaustible, unfathomable.
Bottomlessly adv Unfathomably,
Bottomlessness n State or quality of being bottomless.
Bottom-livers n Marine life living at extreme depths. 2. bottom-livers in the food chain" - poorest members of society.
Bottom-most adj That is at the very bottom; lowest.
Bottom-up(wards) adv An inverted position.
Bottomy adj Lying on a bottom, low-lying.
Bough n A firm branch of a tree.
Bough n A shoulder of an animal. 2. a limb, leg. 3. one of the larger limbs or offshots of a tree. 4. a main branch, but also applied to smaller branches. 4. transfig and fig. a main branch of a vein or artery. 5. a branch of a family or anything metaphoricaly referred to a tree, a gallow.
Bough phr "The Father to the Bough, the Son to the Plough." - supposed to mean that, according to a kentish Custom, attainder for felony does not deprive a man's children of the succession to his property.
Boughed adj Having branches; stripped of boughs.
Bough-house n A temporary structure msde of boughs.
Boughless adj Without or destitute of branches.
Boughly adj Bent, curved, having several bends.
Bough-runes n Name for the runic characteristic modifier so as to resemble 'the branching tree.' (also, the ice-runes one read in the same way as the 'bough-runes on the Maeshouse (Maeshowe) stones, a neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland.
Bought n (OE: byht) a bend or curve. 2. a hollow, angle or bend in an animal body. 3. a bending in a coastline, mountain chain. 4. a bend in a rope, loop, string or chain.
Bought-book n A book for keeping an account of goods bought.
Boughten vb In US, in application to purchased as opposed to home-made articles.
Bought-in adj Home produced. (bought-in goods)
Bought-out adj Purchased from an outside sources (not raised or produced on one's own premises)
Boughtwise n A coil, fold or knot formed by the body of a serpent. 2. tail of a horse.
Boughy adj Abounding in boughs.
Bouk n A belly, paunch, abdomen. 2. a trunk of the body, hence the body of a man or animal. 3. volume, largeness of volume, bulk, the greater portion of anything.
Bouked adj Having a protuberance, bulksome, corpulent, portly, occupy large space, bulky. 3. great, plentiful, influential. 3.magnitude in three-dimension.
Boult n A hypotheical law case propounded and arranged and arranged for practice by students of The Inns of The Court (a Moot) -
Bourn n Burn, bourne, a small stream, a brook, creek, river, ea, sike, a winter bourn or torrents of rain of the chalk downs.
Bout adv (Prp and conjunction) - originally, be-utan: without, split up into. It sense continued as prep. and adv. Butan: but (still continues) - bout becomes obsolete, but acquires some uses in northern dialect, such as, outside, without; of position: with, beyond, except.
Bout-gate adv A going about, circuvention, equivocation, quibble.
Bove adv Shortening of 'above' - from OE. bufan, be-utan, from above.
Bow n A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, bent line. 2. a curved stroke forming part of a letter in calligraphy. 3. an arch (masonry) as in a gateway, or bridge. 5. a weapon for shooting an arrow. 6. a yoke for an oxen. 8. a single passage of the bow across the string. 9. an arc or circle. 10. an instrument for drawing curves. 11. the iris of the eye
Bow n OE: bu^ - a dwelling, cottage, building. 2. the stock of cattle on a farm, a herd, livestock. 3. a term used in old deeds to denote cattle.
Bow n "The Bow" - the hand (bowman) that holds the bow in archery
Bow n An inclination of the body or head in salutation.
Bow vb To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow. 2. the musician bowed his violin expertly. 3. to become bent or curved. 4. to make something bend or curve. 5. to exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend,figuratively; to turn; to inclin. 5. to premiere.
Bow vb To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference. 2. to defer (to something).
Bow phr "Bend or Bring (another) to One's Bow" - to bring someone to one's will, inclination or control.
Bow phr "Bow Down to someone Better" - to succumb to pressure. 2. accept that someone knows bett er.
Bow phr "Bowed Down With" - troubled, worried by.
Bow phr "Bow Out" - to leave, retire, retreat, resign, withdrawn, go away.
Bow phr "Bow Out (of)" - bow low to a customer or a visitor as one leaves his presence.
Bow phr "By the Stringer Rather Than the Bow" - by the most direct way.
Bow phr 'Come to Bow" - to be compliant or submissive.
Bow phr "Draw a Long Bow" - to make exaggerated statements.
Bow phr "Have More Strings to One's Bow" - to have many resources, skills or alternatives. 2. to have an additional qualification appropriate to the task.
Bow phr "Of the Bow and Arrow" - attributively belonging to or characteristic of the period when the 'bow and arrow' was the chief weapon of war.
Bow phr "Shoot with Another Bow"- to practise an art, occupation other than your own.
Bow Phr "Take A Bow" - to receive recognition.
Bow phr "The Bent of One's Bow" - one's intentions, inclinations, disposition.
Bow phr Wide on the Bow Hand" - wide of the mark, inaccurate.
Bow-backed adj Having a permanently bent or crooked back. 2. having the back arched as an angry cat. 3.
Bow-bearer n A bearer of a bow; an archer.
Bow-bells n (The bells of the Bow Church)- 'St Mary-le-Bon" - within the sounds of the bow bells, synonymous with the city bounds. Cf cockney
Bow-bent adj Bowed.
Bowed adj Bent, curved, crooked. 2. bent down under the load or the weight of years.
Bowed adj Furnised with or provided with a bow.
Bowedness n In a bowed or bent condition.
Bower n OE: dwelling, abode, habitation, lady apartment. 2. in early use : a cottage; in later poetical word for 'abode' 3. a vague, poetic word for an idealised, not realised in any actual dwelling. 4. a fancy, rustic cottage or country residence. 5. a covered stall or booth at a fair. 6. an inner apartment, esp. distinguished from the hall or large public room, in ancient mansion. 7. esp. applied to a lady private apartment; a boduor (poetic). 8. a place closed in or overarched with branches of trees, shrubs or other plants; a shady recess, arbour.
Bower n Of a tenant who rents a herd of cows along with their pasture and fodder from a proprietor or farmer and makes what profit he can get out of their produce, after paying the rents; or who gives his labour as a share ; and divides profits with the proprietor of the stocks. 2. a farmer, peasant.
Bower n One who plays with a bow on a violin or stringed instruments.
Bower n One who bows, stoops. 2. one who bends anything; that which causes to bend; a muscle.
Bower vb To embower, to enclose. 2. to take shelter, make one's dwelling.
Bower-bird n A name given to several australian birds of the starling family, which builds bowers or runs.
Bowered adj Shaded, enbowered, finished with bowers.
Bowering n Embowering, shady, covering.
Bowerless adj Without a bower or bowers.
Bowermaid n Chambermaid; a lady-in-waiting.
Bower-thane n A chambermaid; lady-in-waiting.
Bow-houghed adj having the crooked hips.
Bow-house n A cattle stall.
Bowing n Bowing, bending, bend, curving, twisting, flexing, flexion, flexive inclination. 2. curved or bent part. 3. the bowing inflexion of the voice. 4. the action of the body or head in salutation. 5. the place of the violin on a bow.
Bowing adj That bends or inclines, inclined, bent. 2. that may be bent, flexible, pliant. 3. yielding, submissive, obedient.
Bowingly adv In a curving or bending manner or direction.
Bowingness n A bending quality.
Bowl n Round vessel to hold liquids, a cup. 2. a drinking vessel. 3. a tub or rounded vessel. 4. the more or less bowl-shaped part of a vessel. 5. the basis of a fountain.
Bowl n "The Bowl" - drinking, conviviality.
Bowl phr "Be in a Fish Bowl" - be very open to view.
Bowl vb To curve, crook, hence bowled, bowled.
Bowl-barrow n A pre-historic mound of the shape of an upturned bowl.
Bowl-dish n A dish or food served in a bowl.
Bowler n One who engages in the sport of bowling. 2. (cricket) the player currently bowling. 3. (cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. 2. a deep-drinker, drunkard.
Bow-like adj Resembling or characteristic of a bow.
Bowl-less adj Not having or without a bowl.
Bowl-shaped adj Having a natural basis. 2. the blade of an oar.
Bowl-weft n Applied to materials drawn out by weavers in Lanarkshire to exchange with travelling hawkers for bowls and other earthenware dishes.
Bowly adj Bent, round.
Bow-maker n A maker of bows and arrows.
Bowman n One who shoots arrow. 2. one who roars by oar. 3. "the bowman' - plural collective.
Bow-shape n Having the shape of a bow.
Bowman's-root n Name given to certain plants, as 'gillenia trifolata"; euphorbia corollata, incardia alternifolia.'
Bowsprit n Sprout-pole.
Bowstring n The string of a bow.
Bow-wise adj In the form or figure of a bow.
Bowyer n One who makes or trades in bows. 2. a bower.
Box n Receptacle, container, holder. 2. a coffin. 3. box under the driver's seat on a coach. 4. a box and its contents; hence, a variable measure of quality. 4. light shield worn by cricketers to protect their genitals. 5. a cavity made in the trunk of a tree to collect its sap.
Box phr "Be in the Box" - (colloq) to be in the same box; to be in similar (unhappy) predicament.
Box phr "Box In" - prevent somebody from going faster, manuoeuvring etc by surrounding them on all sides.
Box phr "Be in a Box Seat" - be in a very powerful position to control activity.
Box phr "Be On One's Soap Box" - speak freely on issues about which one keenly feels.
Box phr "Box Up" - confine in a small space.
Box phr "One Out of the Box" - an excellent person or thing.
Box phr "Put One Back In Their Box" - make it clear to a person that his views are not welcome.
Box clever adj Crafty, has the smarts.
Boxmaker n One who makes boxes for a living.
Boxed adj Enclosed or included in a box; confined in a box. 2. confined, limited, boxed up, uncomfortable.
Boxen n A small evergreen tree
Boxer n Squarely built, fawn or brindle breed of dog of the bulldog type.
Boxful adj As much as a box can contain.
Boxing n The structure or working of boxes. 2. the putting in or providing with, a box. 3. a wooden casin, conduit constructed after a manner of a box. 4. the lining of a well.
Boxing-day n The day after Christmas Day, December, 26th.
Boxy adj Resembling a box in shape, comparable to a box. 2. of clothes: having a squared look of the feet of a horse or mule. 3. high and narrow.