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The buttock. [Low] Shak.

See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.

See Bombard. [Obs.]

See Bumboat. Carlyle.

See Bombast. [Obs.]

A glass used in subliming camphor. [Spelled also bombolo and bumbolo.]

To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern. As a bittern bumbleth in the mire. Chaucer.

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

The old game of nineholes.

A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.

as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) Onr from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. R. North.

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Conceitedness. [Colloq.]

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.