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To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]

the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.] -- Queen Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings.

w. -- Bow window (Arch.) See Bay window. -- To draw a long bow, to lie; to exaggerate. [Colloq.]

To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -with up. [Colloq.]

Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

Having an active or vigorous mind. [Colloq.]

The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.

Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.]

The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy. [Colloq.]

Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]

Well; thrivingly; prosperously. [Colloq.]

iendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise. [Colloq.]

Trousers; pantaloons. [Colloq.] Breeches buoy, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to t…

; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.