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Exhibiting tumultuous 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.

ouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

esembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

ucture into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

ine, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

o break one's journey. Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. Shak.

To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest. Shak.

A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

t, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish. -- To bring back. (a) To recall. (b) To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner. -- To bring by the lee (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback…

To open for the first time, as stores. You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armories, I will broach my store, and will bring forth my stores. Knolles.

tiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.