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Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.

A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.

Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower.

hose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.

f a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth.

c. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.

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

. "A breezy day in May." Coleridge. 'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth.

corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to. Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience. F. W. Robertson.

n, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. "His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

The rim of a hat. Wordsworth.

quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth.

To grow broad; to become broader or wider. The broadening sun appears. Wordsworth.

in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.

eny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

ue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

rother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

aken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth.