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A curved handle. Sir W. Scott.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

Same as Bowlder.

Characterized by bowlders.

Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

Corrupted form Bolt.

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.

One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

With a bounce.

or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary. He hath compassed the waters with bounds. Job xxvi. 10. On earth's remotest bounds. Campbell. And mete the bounds of hate and love. Tennyson. To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act wi…

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and refle…

Bound; fastened by bonds. [Obs.]