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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,026 words match “BOA”

See Boatswain. [Obs.] Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

BOUNCE v. 2 definitions

To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

BOURN; BOURNE n.

A stream or rivulet; a burn. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.

One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar. Bow chaser (Naut.), a gun in the bow for firing while chasing another vessel. Totten. - Bow piece, a piece of ordnance carried at the bow of a ship. -- On the bow (Naut.), on that part of the horizon within 45º on either side of the line ahead. Totten.…

One who rows at the bow of a boat.

The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form. To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide 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…

BRAG v. 6 definitions

aining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.…

BRAGGADOCIO n. 2 definitions

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

BRAGGART n. 2 definitions

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

One who brags; a boaster.

BRAGGINGLY adv.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. In spite of our host's bravado. Irving.

A bravado; a boast. With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings. Chapman.

BRAWN n. 2 definitions

The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar. The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer.

of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.