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With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm. Shak. The brute and boisterous force of violent men. Milton.

Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. "The bold design leased highly." Milton.

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

n graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Arbitration bond. See under Arbitration. -- Bond crediter (Law), a creditor whose debt is secured by a bond. Blackstone. -- Bond debt (Law), a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond. Burrows. -- Bond (or lap) of a slate,…

A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.

le entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. -- Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried to the ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account, and the other to the…

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

ing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. Howitt.

hole. Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

wn that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine.

h authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.

A bitch of the hound kind. Shak.

A sharp bit or snaffle. Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit. Gascoigne.

vessels in certain waters. Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb. -- Branch herring. See Alewife. -- Root and branch , totally, wholly.

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A native or an inhabitant of Brazil. Brazilian pebble. See Pebble, n., 2.

inate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.