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id; a decoy. [Cant] Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its h…

Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

s in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of k…

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui. Dickens.

metallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs…

Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

o the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

tor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

nciple. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South.

. Bounty jumper, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.] -- Queen Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings.

A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood.

The state of being braced or tight; tension. The laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension. Holder.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.