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l; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

See Boultel.

One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside.

The head of a bolt.

A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.…

A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

See Bowsprit.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]

A bolt with a barbed shank.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.

A birdbolt. [Obs.] Ford.

The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. Knight.

A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [U. S.]

A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." [Poetic] Shak.

A bolt for driving out other bolts.

A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.