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To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak.

d by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

osite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the sam…

Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.

Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

n thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil. -- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the…

ng a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

ates. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement. Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. Dorset. The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. Dryden.

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.