Bolt - Bond

2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
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I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.
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3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
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4. (U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
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5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
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6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
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Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn.
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Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.
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Bolt (bōlt; 110), v. i. 1. To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
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This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . .
And oft out of a bush doth bolt. Drayton.
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2. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
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His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. Milton.
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3. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
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4. (U.S. Politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
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Bolt, adv. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
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[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. Thackeray.
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Coloq. Bolt upright . (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Bolt, n. [From , v. i.] 1. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
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2. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
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This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. Compton Reade.
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3. (U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
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Bolt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See , and cf. .]
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1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
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He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser.
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Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.
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2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
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Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. L'Estrange.
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3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob.
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Coloq. To bolt to the bran , to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer.
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This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte.
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The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke.
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Bolt, n. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.
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Boltel (�), n. See .
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Bolter (�), n. One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
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Bolter, n. 1. One who sifts flour or meal.
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2. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
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Bolter, n. A kind of fishing line. See .
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Bolthead (�), n. 1. (Chem.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
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2. The head of a bolt.
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Bolting, n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.
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Bolting, n. 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
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2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.]
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Coloq. Bolting cloth , wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Coloq. Bolting hutch , a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.
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Boltonite (�), n. (Min.) A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
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Boltrope (�), n. (Naut.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
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Boltsprit (�), n. [A corruption of bowsprit.] (Naut.) See .
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Bolty (�), n. (Zoöl.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]
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Bolus (�), n.; pl. Boluses (�). [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. � lump of earth. See , n., clay.] A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
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Bom (�), n. (Zoöl.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
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Bomb (�), n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. �.]
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1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck, would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Bacon.
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2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See .
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3. A bomb ketch.
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Coloq. Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by its explosion. -- Coloq. Bomb ketch , Coloq. Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel, very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel. -- Coloq. Bomb lance , a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Coloq. Volcanic bomb , a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. “I noticed volcanic bombs.” Darwin.
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Bomb, v. t. To bombard. [Obs.] Prior.
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Bomb, v. i. [Cf. .] To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Bombacaceae n. a natural family of tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds.
Syn. -- family Bombacaceae.
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Bombace (�), n. [OF.] Cotton; padding. [Obs.]
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Bombard (�), n. [F. bombarde, LL. bombarda, fr. L. bombus + -ard. Cf. , and see .] 1. (Gun.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
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They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.
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2. A bombardment. [Poetic & R.] J. Barlow.
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3. A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.]
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Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.
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4. pl. Padded breeches. [Obs.]
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Coloq. Bombard phrase , inflated language; bombast. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Bombard (�), n. [OE. bombarde, fr. F. bombarde.] (Mus.) See . [Obs.]
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Bombard (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bombarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bombarding.] To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
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Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke.
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His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.
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Bombardier (�), n. [F. bombardier.] (Mil.) (a) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic] (b) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
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Coloq. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans.
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Bombardman (�), n. One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.]
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They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.
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Bombardment (�), n. [F. bombardement.] An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
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{ Bombardo (�), Bombardon (�), } n. [It. bombardo.] (Mus.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.
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Bombasine (�), n. Same as .
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Bombast (bŏmbȧst or bŭmbȧst; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See .] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
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A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.
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2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
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How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak.
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Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.
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3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.
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Bombast, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
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[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak.
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Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.
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Bombast (bŏmbȧst or bŭmbȧst), v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
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Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.
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{ Bombastic (bŏmbȧstĭk or bŭmbȧstĭk), Bombastical } (�), a. Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. -- Bombastically, adv.
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A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.
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Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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Bombastry (�), n. Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
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Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.
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Bombax (�), n. [LL., cotton. See , n.] (Bot.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
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{ Bombazet Bombazette } (�), n. [Cf. .] A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
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Bombazine (�), n. [F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. �. Cf. , .] A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] Tomlinson.
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bomb calorimeter (?), n. a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure, designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere.
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bomber n. 1. a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight.
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2. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the US.
Syn. -- grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.
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3. a person who drops bombs or plants and explodes bombs, especially surreptitously.
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4. a .
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Bomber jacket (�), n. [From its resemblance to the style of jacket work by the crews of World War II bomber airplanes.] a short men's jacket made of leather, having a zipper in front, knitted cuffs, and ribbed trim.
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Bombic (�), a. [L. bombyx silk, silkworm: cf. F. bombique.] Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
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Bombilate (�), v. i. [LL. bombilare, for L. bombitare. See , n.] To hum; to buzz. [R.]
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Bombilation (�), n. A humming sound; a booming.
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To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.
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Bombinate (�), v. i. To hum; to boom.
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Bombination (�), n. A humming or buzzing.
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Bombolo (�), n.; pl. Bomboloes (�). [Cf. It bombola a pitcher.] A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]
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Bombproof (�), a. Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
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Bombshell (�), n. 1. A bomb. See , n.
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2. something or someone that stuns or amazes, especially suddenly and unexpectedly; as, the news of the president's affair was a political bombshell; a blonde bombshell.
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bombsight n. 1. a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs.
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Bombus n. 1. bumblebees.
Syn. -- genus Bombus.
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Bombycid (�), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.
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Bombycilla n. 1. waxwings.
Syn. -- genus Bombycilla.
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Bombycinous (bŏmbĭsĭnŭs), a. [L. bombycinus. See .] 1. Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.
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2. Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint. E. Darwin.
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Bombyliidae n. a natural family of dipterous insects comprising the bee flies.
Syn. -- family Bombyliidae.
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Bombylious (bŏmbĭlĭŭs), a. [L. bombylius a bumblebee, Gr. bombylios.] Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.
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Bombyx (bŏmbĭks), n. [L., silkworm. See .] (Zoöl.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See .
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Bon (�), a. [F., fr. L. bonus.] Good; valid as security for something.
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Bon-accord (�), n. Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]
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Bonaci (?), n. [Amer. Sp. bonasí, prob. from native name.] (Zoöl.) (a) A large grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper. (b) Also, any one of several other similar fishes.
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Bona fide (�). [L.] In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.
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Bona fides (bōnȧ fīdēz). [L.] Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.
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Bonair (�), a. [OE., also bonere, OF. bonnaire, Cotgr., abbrev. of debonnaire. See .] Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]
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Bonanza (�), n. [Sp., prop. calm., fair weather, prosperity, fr. L. bonus good.] In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]
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Bonapartean (�), a. Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
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Bonapartism (�), n. The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
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Bonapartist, n. One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.
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Bona peritura (�). [L.] (Law) Perishable goods. Bouvier.
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Bona roba (�). [It., prop. “good stuff.”] A showy wanton; a courtesan. Shak
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{ Bonasus (�), Bonassus } (�), n. [L. bonasus, Gr. �, �.] (Zoöl.) The aurochs or European bison. See .
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Bonbon (�), n. [F. bonbon, fr. bon bon very good, a superlative by reduplication, fr. bon good.] Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
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Bonbonnière (?), n.; pl. -nières (#). [F.] A small fancy box or dish for bonbons.
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Bonce (�), n. [Etymol. unknown.] A boy's game played with large marbles.
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Bonchrétien (�), n. [F., good Christian.] A name given to several kinds of pears. See .
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Boncilate (�), n. [Empirical trade name.] A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
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Bond (bŏnd), n. [The same word as band. Cf. , .] 1. That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
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Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
I gained my freedom. Shak.
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2. pl. The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint. “This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.” Acts xxvi.
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3. A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
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A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. Burke.
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4. Moral or political duty or obligation.
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I love your majesty
According to my bond, nor more nor less. Shak.
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5. (Law) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. Bouvier. Wharton.
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6. A financial instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; a written promise to pay a specific sum of money on or before a specified day, given in return for a sum of money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
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7. The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
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8. (Arch.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English bond or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
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