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with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of…

The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

see the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. -- Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [Colloq.]

, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

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 in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. S…

The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the…

Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]

ition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

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

A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

An inswept frame. [Colloq.]

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]

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.