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To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears. Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face! Prior.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

ied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.] The ladies were very blue and well informed. Thackeray. Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite. -- Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pyg…

have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.

rd it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.] The long wagon body set on bobsleds. W. D. Howells.

To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.

Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9

To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell.

e who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

ng; 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 same liquid under different pres…

uous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.

To swell; to puff. Holland.

Swelled out.

To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

tion, or for amusement. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay.

A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.