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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BOOMING a. 3 definitions

Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

BOOTING n. 3 definitions

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] Sir. J. Harrington.

BOOTTOPPING n. 2 definitions

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

BORDRAG; BORDRAGING n.

An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.

BORING n. 3 definitions

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.

BOROUGHMONGERING; BOROUGHMONGERY n.

The practices of a boroughmonger.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

BOUNCING a. 2 definitions

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

BOUNCINGLY adv.

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

BOWING n. 2 definitions

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

In a bending manner.

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…

BOWSTRING n. 3 definitions

The string of a bow.

BOWSTRINGED p. 2 definitions

Furnished with bowstring.

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.

BOXING n. 5 definitions

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

tmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]

BRACING a. 3 definitions

Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.