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flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd.

At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.

To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17.

tanding prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden.

lour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.

A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.] A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.

A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]

Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zoöl.), the menhaden. -- Bony pike (Zoöl.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).

Caused by boscage. Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

lace in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

de into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. Locke. Some who spurs had first braced on. Sir W. Scott.

oeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.