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To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. Look how imagination blows him. Shak.

Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]

en to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.

Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

See Bookland.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. -- To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passio…

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

cture variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

tout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

eather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.

The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.

Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold. Within the bosom of that church. Hooker.

The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt.

ing to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefl…

A book which treats of the science of botany.

there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.