n. An abnormally intense inability to make decisions; severe irresolution.
Syn. -- indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions
Syn. -- aboulic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Acetabuliferous. ] (Zool.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acetablum a little cup + -ferous. ] Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acetabulum + -form. ] (Bot.) Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a little saucer for vinegar, fr. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Rom. Antiq.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. (b) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. (c) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. (d) The large posterior sucker of the leeches. (e) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad + E. ambulacral. ] (Zool.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of fish, the type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.
Syn. -- genus Albula. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of fish comprising the bonefish.
Syn. -- family Albulidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ambulacrum + -form ] (Zool.) Having the form of ambulacra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ambulacra [ L., an alley or covered way. ] (Zool.) (a) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. (b) One of the suckers on the feet of mites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ambulance, hôpital ambulant, fr. L. ambulare to walk. See Amble. ] (Mil.) (a) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps. (b) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambulans, p. pr. of ambulare to walk: cf. F. ambulant. ] Walking; moving from place to place. Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. ambulare to walk. See Amble. ] To walk; to move about. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ambulatio. ] The act of walking. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Walking. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who walks about; a walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A beetle of the genus Lamia. (b) A genus of birds, or one of this genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambulatorius. ] 1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. [ 1913 Webster ]

The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to a walk. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ambulatories [ Cf. LL. ambulatorium. ] (Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Away from the ambulacral region. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See Bablah. ] (Bot.) Any one of several species of Acacia, esp. Acacia Arabica, which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

In place of Putney's golden gorse
The sickly babul blooms. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. barbula, fr. barba beard. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A very minute barb or beard. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bibulus, fr. bibere to drink. See Bib, v. t. ] 1. Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bulbus, Gr. bolbo`s: cf. F. bulbe. ] 1. (Bot.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. --
Bulb of a hair, the “root, ” or part whence the hair originates. --
Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. --
Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a light bulb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bulbaceus. See Bulb, n. ] Bulbous. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a bulb; round-headed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim., fr. bulb, n. ] (Bot.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Bulb, n.+ -ferous: cf. F. bulbifère. ] (Bot.) Producing bulbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. bulb. ] 1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost exclusively: An aërial bulb or deciduous bud, produced in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; -- called also bulblet and brood bud. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Bulb, n.+ -let. ] (Bot.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bulbous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bulb, n.+ tuber. ] (Bot.) A corm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bulbosus: cf. F. bulbeux. See Bulb, n. ] Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Per. ] (Zool.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [ Written also buhlbuhl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bulbulus, dim. of bulbus. See Bulb, n. ] A small bulb; a bulblet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of bull. ] A little bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bulge a swelling; cf. AS. belgan to swell, OSw. bulgja, Icel. bōlginn swollen, OHG. belgan to swell, G. bulge leathern sack, Skr. b&rsdot_;h to be large, strong; the root meaning to swell. Cf. Bilge, Belly, Billow, Bouge, n. ] 1. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bulge ways. (Naut.) See Bilge ways. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bulged p. pr. & vb. n. Bulging. ] 1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder. [ 1913 Webster ]

And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bulge. ] (Golf) A driver or a brassy with a convex face. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. 1. curving or bulging outward. Opposite of concave. [ Narrower terms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform; broken-backed, hogged; convexo-concave; gibbous, gibbose; planoconvex ] Also See: protrusive.
Syn. -- convex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. curving outward.
Syn. -- bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Turkish. ] parched crushed wheat.
Syn. -- bulghur, bulgur wheat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. 1. of or pertaining to bulimia. [ PJC ]

2. suffering from bulimia. [ PJC ]