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ater, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.

The metallic end of a pocketknife handle. G. Francis.

A bomb ketch. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel.…

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

ngers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]

hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

ens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill o…

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

See Bosket.

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

A kettle or pan for braising.