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of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.

e internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak.

the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.…

A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.…

Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

tle bridge, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles. -- Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal. -- Wheatsto…

The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

bronchia. -- Bronchial membrane, the mucous membrane lining the bronchia. -- Bronchial tube, the bronchi, or the bronchia.

A minute bronchial tube.

Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.