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Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.

varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton.

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.

Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

trument to stretch and widen the leg 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.

nt 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 protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

ld; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.

Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.

to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

Bent, like a bow. Milton.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

t game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.