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To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.] Sackville.

A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.

A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.

A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.

An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

hich the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

A red pimple. [R.] Shak.

Good or used against bubonic plague; as, antibubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.

A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.

A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.

also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also syllabub.]

Same as Syllabub.

Hubbub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.