| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| bubale | noun | A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible. |
| bubble | noun | A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river., A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters., A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens., A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits., The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level., 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., A person deceived by an empty project; a gull., To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles., To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream., To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. |
| bubbly | adjective | Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. |
| buboes | plural | of Bubo |
| buccal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks. |
| bucked | imp. & past participle | of Buck |
| bucker | noun | One who bucks ore., A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore., A horse or mule that bucks. |
| bucket | noun | A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids., A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc., One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel., The valved piston of a lifting pump. |
| buckie | noun | A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. |
| buckle | noun | A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue., A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal., A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled., A contorted expression, as of the face., To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness., To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted., To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; — generally used reflexively., To join in marriage., To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink., To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall., To yield; to give way; to cease opposing., To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend. |
| buckra | noun | A white man; — a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc., White; white man’s; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam. |
| budded | imp. & past participle | of Bud |
| buddha | noun | The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism. |
| buddle | noun | An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions., To wash ore in a buddle. |
| budged | imp. & past participle | of Budge |
| budger | noun | One who budges. |
| budget | noun | A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions., The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. |
| budlet | noun | A little bud springing from a parent bud. |
| buffer | noun | An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car., A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; — sometimes called buffing apparatus., One who polishes with a buff., A wheel for buffing; a buff., A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; — usually said of an elderly man. |
| buffet | noun | A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard., A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering., A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff., A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity., A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter., To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap., To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows., To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper., To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend., To make one’s way by blows or struggling. |
| buffin | noun | A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns. |
| buffle | noun | The buffalo., To puzzle; to be at a loss. |
| bugger | noun | One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite., A wretch; — sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. |
| bugled | adjective | Ornamented with bugles. |
| bugler | noun | One who plays on a bugle. |
| bulbar | adjective | Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis. |
| bulbed | adjective | Having a bulb; round-headed. |
| bulbel | noun | A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants. |
| bulbul | noun | The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. |
| bulged | imp. & past participle | of Bulge |
| bulimy | noun | A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite. |
| bulked | imp. & past participle | of Bulk |
| bulker | noun | A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them. |
| bullae | plural | of Bulla |
| bulled | adjective | Swollen. |
| bullet | noun | A small ball., A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm., A cannon ball., The fetlock of a horse. |
| bullon | noun | A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis). |
| bultel | noun | A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran. |
| bultow | noun | A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller. |
| bummed | imp. & past participle | of Bum |
| bumble | noun | The bittern., To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern. |
| bumkin | noun | 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. |
| bummer | noun | An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. |
| bumped | imp. & past participle | of Bump |
| bumper | noun | A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast., A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer., That which bumps or causes a bump., Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer. |
| bunchy | adjective | Swelling out in bunches., Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird’s bunchy tail., Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. |
| bunkum | noun | Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show., See Buncombe. |
| bunder | noun | A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods. |
| bundle | noun | A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes., To tie or bind in a bundle or roll., To send off abruptly or without ceremony., To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony., To sleep on the same bed without undressing; — applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. |
| bunged | imp. & past participle | of Bung |
| bungle | verb i. | To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner., To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; — sometimes with up., A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. |
| bunion | noun | Same as Bunyon., An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe. |
| bunked | imp. & past participle | of Bunk |
| bunker | noun | A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat., A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker. |
| bunter | noun | A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. |
| bunyon | noun | Alt. of Bunion |
| buoyed | imp. & past participle | of Buoy |
| burbot | noun | A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. |
| burden | noun | That which is borne or carried; a load., That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive., The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden., The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin., The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace., A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds., A birth., To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load., To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes., To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable)., The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer., The drone of a bagpipe., A club. |
| burdon | noun | A pilgrim’s staff. |
| bureau | noun | Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers., The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted., Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief., A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. |
| burgee | noun | A kind of small coat., A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels. |
| burgoo | noun | A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. |
| burhel | noun | Alt. of Burrhel |
| burial | noun | A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture., The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. |
| burier | noun | One who, or that which, buries. |
| burion | noun | The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); — called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. |
| burked | imp. & past participle | of Burke |
| burled | imp. & past participle | of Burl |
| burlap | noun | A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. |
| burler | noun | One who burls or dresses cloth. |
| burman | noun | A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese., Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah. |
| burned | imp. & past participle | of Burn, See Burnt., Burnished. |
| burner | noun | One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything., The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. |
| burnet | noun | A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. |
| burnie | noun | A small brook. |
| burred | imp. & past participle | of Burr |
| burrel | noun | A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp., Same as Borrel. |
| burrow | noun | An incorporated town. See 1st Borough., A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation., A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse., A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5., To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits., To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide. |
| bursae | plural | of Bursa |
| bursal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae. |
| bursar | noun | A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery., A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support. |
| bursch | noun | A youth; especially, a student in a german university. |
| burton | noun | A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part. |
| buried | imp. & past participle | of Bury |
| buscon | noun | One who searches for ores; a prospector. |
| bushed | imp. & past participle | of Bush |
| bushel | noun | A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts., A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure., A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples., A large indefinite quantity., The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush. |
| bushet | noun | A small bush. |
| busily | adverb | In a busy manner. |
| busked | imp. & past participle | of Busk, Wearing a busk. |
| busket | noun | A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet., A part of a garden devoted to shrubs. |
| buskin | noun | A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg., A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; — worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. |
| bussed | imp. & past participle | of Buss |
| buster | noun | Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. |
| bustle | verb i. | To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd., Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement., A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; — called also bishop, and tournure. |
| busied | imp. & past participle | of Busy |
| butted | imp. & past participle | of But, of Butt |
| butane | noun | An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series. |
| butler | noun | An officer in a king’s or a nobleman’s household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. |
| butter | noun | An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning., Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter., To cover or spread with butter., To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game., One who, or that which, butts. |
| button | noun | A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass., A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; — used also for ornament., A bud; a germ of a plant., A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door., A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion., To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; — often followed by up., To dress or clothe., To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button. |
| buxine | noun | An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; — called also buxina. |
| buying | present participle & vb. noun | of Buy |
| buzzed | imp. & past participle | of Buzz |
| buzzer | noun | One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer. |