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e for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.

n different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.

ts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.

Padded breeches. [Obs.] Bombard phrase, inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]

Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]

One who works up a "boom". [Slang, U. S.]

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] Swift. -- Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. -- Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and…

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses. [Slang, U. S.]

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word. [Jocose.]

A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." Thackeray. To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]

sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.

In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.

A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides. [Slang]