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A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…

A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

ance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

A bomb or shell. [Obs.]

Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]

ce to bees, flies, and other insects. -- Bee fly (Zoöl.), a two winged fly of the family Bombyliidæ. Some species, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees. -- Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the…

oisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully. He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy. Sir T. More. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.

Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.] [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson .

See Bombard. [Obs.]

See Bombast. [Obs.]

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

tive assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

m a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc. A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. W. Iving.

A bombastic report from the French armies.

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

ribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.

gas, steam, liguids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ. Bomb chest, See under Bomb. -- Chest of drawers, a case or movable frame containing drawers.