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A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.

A stream or rivulet; a burn. My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. Spenser.

Without a bourn or limit.

A mineral of a steel-gray 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.

See Burnoose.

An old French dance tune in common time.

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

A toper; a boozer.

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Relating to the boustrophedon mode of writing.

Boustrophedonic.

Drunken; sotted; boozy. In his cups the bousy poet songs. Dryden.

ng, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.] Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.