Part 9

raggadocio, gascon, rodomont, blusterer, fanfaron, drawcansir. boastful, a. bragging, vaunting, vainglorious, thrasonical, cockahoop, braggart, jactitatious. boasting, n. bragging, gasconade, vaporing, fanfaronade, rodomontade, blague, bravado, blustering, jactitation, vaunting. Antonyms: disparagement, depreciation. boat, n. water craft, launch, rowboat, canoe, gondola, punt, yacht, yawl, scull, cock, dugout, smack, pirogue, trawler, sloop, praam, coracle, pontoon, bateau, wherry, pinnace, scow, banca, transport, dory, galley, cruiser, ship, barge, bark, brig, bucentaur, skiff, caique, drogher, schooner, cockleshell, vessel, tug, towboat, tow, cog, wangan, ferry-boat, dinghey, argosy, oomiac, junk, longboat, catboat, felucca, cutter, frigate, xebec, tartan, una boat, moses, raft, catamaran, sampan, lifeboat, caravel, trekschuit, masoola, argo, coggle. Associated Words: davits, oar, helm, stern, pilot, rudder, flotilla, navy, navigation, fleet. beatable, a. navigable. boat races. regatta. boat-shaped, a. navicular, scaphoid, cymbiform, naviform. bob, n. pendant, float. bobtailed, a. curtailed. bode, v. forebode, foreshadow, augur, presage, betoken, portend. bodiless, a. incorporeal, disembodied. bodilessness, n. incorporeality, disembodiment. bodily, a. physical, corporal, corporeal. boding, a. ominous, portentous. boding, n. omen, sign, prognostic, foreboding, augury, auspice, portent. bodkin, n. stiletto, eyeleteer; tape needle. body, n. the physical person; torso, trunk; physique; bulk, mass; axis, centrum; individual, person, creature; system, code; consistency, substance; hulk; cuerpo. Associated Words: physiology, anatomy, bicorporal, embody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment, manikin, corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic. body servant. valet, squire. body snatcher. resurrectionist, ghoul. bodyguard, n. lifeguard, _garde du corps_, retinue. bog, n. quagmire, marsh, swamp, fen, morass, slough. boggle, v. hesitate, stickle, falter; bungle. bogus, a. (Colloq.) spurious, counterfeit, fictitious, sham, fraudulent, forged, mock, false, supposititious. bogy, n. bugaboo, bugbear, bogle, specter. boil, n. furuncle. Associated Word: furuncular. boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling. boil away. evaporate. boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering. boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience. boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude. bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish, brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert; conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous, jagged. Antonyms: modest, bashful, diffident, coy, shy, timid, retiring. bold-faced, a. impudent, brazen-faced, insolent. boldness, n. temerity, impudence, presumption, effrontery, impertinence, nerve. boll, n. pod, pericarp. bolster, v. prop up, support, maintain.--n. cushion, pad, support. bolt, v. sift; leave suddenly; gulp. bomb, n. shell. bombast, n. magniloquence, fustian, bombastry, altiloquence, grandiloquence. bombastic, a. magniloquent, grandiose, high-sounding, turgid, inflated, grandiloquent. bona fide. in good faith, real, actual, really, actually. bond, n. band, tie, vinculum, copula; pl. shackles, manacles, fetters, constraint; pl. imprisonment, captivity, bondage, restraint; obligation. bond, a. captive, enslaved. bondage, n. servitude, slavery, captivity, bond service, thralldom, durance. bondsman, n. bondman, slave, villain, serf; surety. bone, n. (little) ossicle, osselet. bone, n. Associated Words: osteology, osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia, ossifragous, skeleton. bone formation. ostosis, ossification, ectostosis, osteogeny. boneless, a. exosseous. bonelike, a. osseous, ossified, bony. boneset, n. thoroughwort, Indian sage, feverwort. bonmot, n. repartee. bonnet, n. headdress, chapeau. bonny, a. comely, pretty, merry, blithe, sportive, cheerful, buxom, chubby, plump. bonus, n. premium; honorarium. booby, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, numskull, coot, ninny, dullard, witling. boodle, n. (Slang) swag. boohoo, v. (Slang) bawl, squawl. book, n. volume; tome (ponderous); manual; publication; biograph; monograph; polygraph; anthology. Associated Words: bibliography, bibliolater, bibliomania, bibliophobia, format, facture, biblioclast, bibliognost, stichometry, cahier, imprimatur, _ex libris_, edition, collation, Elzevir, bibliophilism, library, collaboration. booked, a. registered; (Colloq.) on the way, destined. bookish, a. studious; formal, pedantic. bookkeeper, n. accountant, countercaster (Contemptuous). bookkeeping, n. accountancy. booklet, n. pamphlet, brochure, tract. book lore. bibliology. booklover, n. bibliophile. bookman, n. scholar, student. bookseller, n. bookmerchant, bibliopole, bibliopolist. book worship. bibliolatry. boom, v. resound, roar. boon, a. generous, bountiful, benign; jolly, convivial, gay, jovial, frolicsome, sportive. boor, n. peasant, rustic (rude); lout, churl, gawk. boorish, a. uncultured, rude, unrefined, gawky, loutish, ungainly. boot, n. premium, bonus; buskin, gamashes. bootless, a. useless, unavailing, futile, ineffectual. booty, n. plunder, spoil, loot. booze, v. tipple. border, n. verge, edge, margin, brink, marge, skirt, rim, brim; purl, fillet; boundary, frontier, outskirt, confine, march, purlieu. bordering on. adjacent, adjoining, coterminous with, conterminous with. border, v. border on, be contiguous, be adjacent, adjoin, verge, approach. bore, n. perforation; caliber; tiresome person, proser. bore, v. perforate, pierce, drill; weary, tire, annoy, fatigue. boring, n. perforation; transforation. born, p.p. née.--a. innate, natural, inherent, congenital. bosh, n. (Colloq.) nonsense, froth, flummery, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, drivel, fustian, prating. boss, n. protuberance, stud, knob, process; (Colloq.) superintendent, director, employer, foreman, overseer. boss, v. (Colloq.) direct, oversee, superintend; domineer, dominate, dictate. bossy, a. studded; (Colloq.) dictatorial, domineering, imperious, arbitrary, masterful, authoritative. botanist, n. phytologist. botany, n. phytology. botch, n. bungle, fiasco. bother, v. trouble, annoy, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, worry, molest. bother, n. petty trouble, annoyance, inconvenience. botheration, n. (Colloq.) perplexity, annoyance, nuisance, vexation, disturbance. bothersome, a. troublesome, perplexing, annoying, vexatious. bottle, n. phial, vial, cruet, flask, decanter, cruse, siphon, amphora, ampulla, tankard, matrass, bolthead, carboy, carafe, croft, canteen, flagon, kit, demijohn, jorum, vinaigrette, costrel, pycnometer, magnum, flacket, betty. bottom, n. foot, base; nadir; foundation, groundwork, basis, base, pedestal; fundament, buttocks, rump, fundus, seat; dregs, precipitate, lees, sediment, grounds. bottom, a. fundamental. bottomless, a. abysmal, unfathomable. bough, n. branch, limb. boulevard, n. Associated Word: boulevardier. bounce, v. spring, bound; rebound, recoil; (Colloq.) discharge, dismiss. bounce, n. bound, leap, rebound, spring; (Colloq.) discharge, dismissal. bouncer, a. (Cottoq.) braggart, boaster; lie, falsehood; whopper. bouncing, a. lusty, buxom, strapping, plump; excessive, big, whopping. bound, v. limit, inclose, circumscribe, terminate; leap, spring, bounce; rebound. bound, n. spring, leap, bounce, rebound; boundary, confine. bound, p.p. and a. restrained, constrained, repressed; bounden; destined, sure, certain; (Colloq.) determined, resolved; costive, constipated. boundary, n. circumference, periphery; bound, limit, border, term, confines, precinct, bourn, march, marge. bounden, a. obliged, beholden; obligatory, binding. boundless, a. illimitable, unbounded, vast, immense, limitless. bounteous, a. bountiful, generous, liberal, munificent. bountiful, a. liberal, free-hearted, generous; plentiful, abundant, copious, unstinted, ample. bounty, n. generosity, liberality, munificence, beneficence; premium, bonus, reward. bouquet, n. nosegay; boutonnière (buttonhole bouquet). bourne, n. destination, goal; stream, rivulet; boundary, bound. bout, n. round, turn; contest, set-to, conflict. bow, v. bend, curve, crook; prostrate, overwhelm, crush, abase, yield, obey, submit, be obeisant; incline, nod. bow, n. nod; obeisance; salam; congé; stern, prow, beak; courtesy, curtsy. bow and arrows. Associated Words: archery, archer, toxophilite, crossbow, quiver, centaur, ascham, belomancy, bowman, Sagittarius, sagittary, arbelest, vireton. bowels, n. pl. intestines, entrails, inwards; cæcum, colon, rectum; recesses, _penetralia_. bower, n. arbor. bowl, n. dish, beaker, mortar. bow-legged, a. bandy-legged. bowman, n. archer. bow-shaped, a. arcuate, arcuated. box, n. receptacle, chest, case, coffer, carton, caddy, bandbox, casket, caisson; ciborium, pyx; binnacle; slap, cuff, buffet, stroke. box, v. slap, cuff; spar. boxing, n. sparring. boy, n. lad, youngster, stripling, master, youth, son, minor, junior, youngling, cadet, chap, urchin, bub, sprig, callant, younker, hobbledehoy; gamin, gutter-snipe. boyhood, n. youth, juvenility, juniority, nonage, minority. boyish, a. juvenile, immature, childish, youthful. boy-servant, n. page, footboy; groom, hostler, lackey. brace, v. prop, support, fortify, buttress, stay, shore; strengthen, invigorate. brace, n. prop, support, shore, strut, stay, stanchion; tension; pair, two. bracer, n. tonic, invigorant; stiffener, support, prop. bracing, a. invigorating, strengthening, stimulating. bracket, n. console, corbel, strut, modillion, cantalever; pl. crotchets. brag, v. boast, vaunt, vapor. Antonyms: disparage, decry, belittle, depreciate. brag, n. boasting, self-glorification, vaunt, gasconade braggadocio, bravado, vaporing. Antonyms: disparagement, detraction, decrial, depreciation. braggadocio, n. brag, boasting; boaster, braggart. braggart, n. boaster, rodomont, gascon, vaunter, vaporer, blusterer, braggadocio, bouncer. braid, n. plait; queue, pigtail.--v. plait, plat, entwine, interlace. brain, n. cerebrum; cerebellum; encephalon. Associated Words: cerebrology, encephalology, cerebrate, cerebric, lecithin, excerebration, cephalopathy, encephalitis, apoplexy, cerebral. brain action. cerebration. brain fag. cerebropathy. brainless, a. anencephalic, anencephalous; witless, silly, imbecile, idiotic. brake, n. thicket. branch, n. bough, limb; shoot, sprout, sprig, spray, twig, tiller, switch, sucker, stolen, offshoot; ramification; division, department, bureau, wing; tributary, affluent. branch, v. ramify, divaricate, diverge, fork, bifurcate. branch, a. tributary. branching, a. forked, dendroid, dendritic, arborescent, furcated. branching, n. ramification, divarication, divergence, forking, bifurcation, radiation, dichotomy. brand, v. stigmatize. brand, n. firebrand; kind, quality, grade, stigma. branding, n. stigmatization. brash, a. quick-tempered, irascible; brittle, crisp, fragile. brass, n. (Colloq.) impudence, insolence, temerity, effrontery, audacity. brass worker. brasier, brazier. brassy, a. brazen; (Colloq.) bold, impudent, forward. bravado, n. brag; blustering, threat. brave, a. intrepid, coura