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on. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. -- Bond timber, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.

pels, and for cleaning jewelry. -- Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black. -- B…

To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.

of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth. No one could be born into slavery in Mexico. Prescott.

ress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom. He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. Ex. iv. 6.

A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.

one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.…

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

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

foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

e temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.