Boastful (a.) Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
Boasting (n.) The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
Boastingly (adv.) Boastfully; with boasting.
Boastive (a.) Presumptuous.
Boastless (a.) Without boasting or ostentation.
Boat (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Boat (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
Boat (n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
Boated (imp. & p. p.) of Boat
Boating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boat
Boat (v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
Boat (v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
Boat (v. i.) To go or row in a boat.
Boatable (a.) Such as can be transported in a boat.
Boatable (a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
Boatage (n.) Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
Boatbill (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
Boatbill (n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.
Boat bug () An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.
Boatfuls (pl. ) of Boatful
Boatful (n.) The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
Boathouse (n.) A house for sheltering boats.
Boating (n.) The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
Boating (n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
Boation (n.) A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
Boatmen (pl. ) of Boatman
Boatman (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
Boatman (n.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.
Boatmanship (n.) The art of managing a boat.
Boat-shaped (a.) See Cymbiform.
Boat shell () A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
Boat shell () A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
Boatsman (n.) A boatman.
Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
Boatswain (n.) The jager gull.
Boatswain (n.) The tropic bird.
Boat-tail (n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
Boatwomen (pl. ) of Boatwoman
Boatwoman (n.) A woman who manages a boat.
Bob (n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
Bob (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Bob (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
Bob (n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
Bob (n.) A working beam.
Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
Bob (n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
Bob (n.) The refrain of a song.
Bob (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
Bob (n.) A shilling.
Bobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Bob
Bobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bob
Bob (n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
Bob (n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
Bob (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Bob (n.) To mock or delude; to cheat.
Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
Bob (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
Bob (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
Bobac (n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
Bobance (n.) A boasting.
Bobber (n.) One who, or that which, bobs.
Bobbery (n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
Bobbin (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
Bobbin (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
Bobbinet (n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
Bobbinwork (n.) Work woven with bobbins.
Bobbish (a.) Hearty; in good spirits.
Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
Bob-cherry (n.) A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
Bobfly (n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
Bobolink (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
Bobsled (n.) Alt. of Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh (n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
Bobtail (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
Bobtail (a.) Bobtailed.
Bobtailed (a.) Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
Bobwhite (n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
Bob wig () A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.
Bocal (n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
Bocardo (n.) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
Bocardo (n.) A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.
Bocasine (n.) A sort of fine buckram.
Bocca (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
Boce (n.) A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
Bock beer () A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.
Bockelet (n.) A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret.
Bockey (n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
Bocking (n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
Bockland (n.) See Bookland.
Boddice (n.) See Bodick.
Boded (imp. & p. p.) of Bode
Boding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bode
Bode (v. t.) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.