imp. & p. p. of Aby. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Abounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Abounding. ] [ OE. abounden, F. abonder, fr. L. abundare to overflow, abound; ab + unda wave. Cf. Undulate. ] 1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with. [ 1913 Webster ]

To abound in, to possess in such abundance as to be characterized by. --
To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 same as abundant abounding confidence
Syn. -- galore(postnominal) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prep. [ OE. aboute, abouten, abuten; AS. ābutan, onbutan; on + butan, which is from be by + utan outward, from ut out. See But, Out. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Around; all round; on every side of. “Look about you.” Shak. “Bind them about thy neck.” Prov. iii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). “Have you much money about you?” Bulwer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roving still about the world. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. “To-morrow, about this time.” Exod. ix. 18. “About my stature.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This use passes into the adverbial sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In concern with; engaged in; intent on. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must be about my Father's business. Luke ii. 49. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Before a verbal noun or an infinitive: On the point or verge of; going; in act of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. “To treat about thy ransom.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. On all sides; around. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis time to look about. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Here and there; around; in one place and another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim. v. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. “There fell . . . about three thousand men.” Exod. xxii. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish. --
To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. --
To go about,
To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. “Shall we set about some revels?” Shak. --
Round about, in every direction around. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as amoebic.
Syn. -- amoebic, amebic, amoeban, ameban, amoebous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like an amœba in structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Arch.) A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch; same as flying buttress. Gwilt.
Syn. -- flying buttress [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Costive; constipated. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ pl. Bonnes bouches [ F. bon, fem. bonne, good + bouche mouth. ] A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ F. bouche mouth, victuals. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A mouth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as Bush, to line. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Same as Bush, a lining. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ F., morsels, mouthfuls, fr. bouche mouth. ] (Cookery) Small patties. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ After Dr. Auguste Boucherie, a French chemist, who invented the process. ] To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky. ] A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's bedroom; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. being puffed out; -- used mostly of hair style, and sometimes clothing; as, a bouffant hairdo; a bouffant skirt.
Syn. -- puffy. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ F., buffoon. ] Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ Named from Bougainville, the French navigator. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bouged [ Variant of bulge. Cf. Bowge. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To swell out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bilge. [ Obs. ] “Their ship bouged.” Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stave in; to bilge. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bouche mouth, victuals. ] Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gouged p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging ] 1. To scoop out with a gouge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [ K S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. bougette sack, bag. Cf. Budget. ] (Her.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bogh, AS. bōg, bōh, bough, shoulder; akin to Icel. bōgr shoulder, bow of a ship, Sw. bog, Dan. bov, OHG. buog, G. bug, and to Gr.&unr_; ( for &unr_; ) forearm, Skr. bāhu (for bhāghu) arm. √88, 251. Cf. Bow of a ship. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gallows. [ Archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having no limbs. Opposite of limbed.
Syn. -- limbless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. lacking a bough or boughs. Opposite of boughed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug&unr_;a. Cf. Bight, Bout, and see Bow to bend. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of a sling that contains the stone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Buy. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Purchased; bribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bending. [ Obs. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. bougie wax candle, bougie, fr. Bougie, Bugia, a town of North Africa, from which these candles were first imported into Europe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Surg.) A long, flexible instrument, that is introduced into the urethra, esophagus, etc., to remove obstructions, or for the other purposes. It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pharm.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., lit., decimal candle. ] A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouillir to boil. ] (Cookery) Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouillir to boil. ] 1. A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Far.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. būc belly; akin to G. bauch, Icel. būkr body. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The body. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bulk; volume. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A curved handle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Boulanger, a French mineralogist. ] (Min.) A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. boulangisme. ] The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. Same as Bowlder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Sw. bullra to roar, rattle, Dan. buldre, dial. Sw. bullersteen larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. bellow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. --
Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.
Syn. -- rocky, bouldery, stony. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Characterized by bowlders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate. The boule of Homeric times was an aristocratic body of princes and leaders, merely advisory to the king. The Athenian boule of Solon's time was an elective senate of 400, acting as a check on the popular ecclesia, for which it examined and prepared bills for discussion. It later increased to 500, chosen by lot, and extended its functions to embrace certain matters of administration and oversight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. boulevard, boulevart, fr. G. bollwerk. See Bulwark. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouleverser to overthrow. ] Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down. [ 1913 Webster ]