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Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence. My bounty is as boundless as the sea. Shak.

an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.…

To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.

s two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made. Balfour.

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

Full to the brim; overflowing.

aving; also, a molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.