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To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.

A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.

denly back, as if frightened. I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among. Shak.

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.] You're an absolute borachio. Congreve.

A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [Obs.] Gower.

aving received spiritual life. "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. -- Born days, days since one was born; lifetime. [Colloq.]

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

lanted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent.

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. "The mariner bound homeward." Cowper.

bliged; beholden. This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley.

nt; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun"te*ous*ness, n.

Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke.

Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] Spenser.

Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower.