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Having the shape of a sausage. Henslow.

Same as Bush, a lining.

A mouth. [Obs.]

Small patties.

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.] Tusser., n. Etym: [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.]

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper.

Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.

A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

To bilge. [Obs.] "Their ship bouged." Hakluyt.

A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.

An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne.

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.

Bending. [Obs.] Sherwood.

er rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle.

Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

The body. [Obs.] Chaucer.