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te needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. S. B. Griffin. The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. J. Burroughs.…

A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

A private room or apartment. "Stand in some by-room" Shak.

he whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.

The root of an American shrub (Chiococca racemosa), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

Drawers. [Obs.]

See Caboose.

Logwood.

See Barwood.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.