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Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence. Dr. H. More.

A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] Milton. Shak.

sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

hing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

A small West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

ng a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceæ) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called al…

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

A head or reservoir of water. [Obs.]

An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well- bottomed.

or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits 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. T…

Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped. [R.]

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

l straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.