Bombycinous (a.) Silken; made of silk.
Bombycinous (a.) Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
Bombylious (a.) Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.
Bombyx (n.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.
Bon (a.) Good; valid as security for something.
Bon-accord (n.) Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
Bona fide () 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.
Bonair (a.) Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.
Bonanza (n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Bonapartean (a.) Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
Bonapartism (n.) The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
Bonapartist (n.) One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.
Bona peritura () Perishable goods.
Bona roba () A showy wanton; a courtesan.
Bonasus (n.) Alt. of Bonassus
Bonassus (n.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.
Bonbon (n.) Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
Bonce (n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.
Bonchretien (n.) A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.
Boncilate (n.) A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
Bond (n.) 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.
Bond (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
Bond (n.) A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
Bond (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation.
Bond (n.) 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.
Bond (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
Bond (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
Bond (n.) 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 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.
Bond (n.) A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.
Bonded (imp. & p. p.) of Bond
Bonding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bond
Bond (v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
Bond (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
Bond (n.) A vassal or serf; a slave.
Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
Bondage (a.) The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
Bondage (a.) Obligation; tie of duty.
Bondage (a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Bondager (n.) A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
Bondar (n.) A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.
Bonded (a.) Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.
Bonder (n.) One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
Bonder (n.) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
Bonder (n.) A freeholder on a small scale.
Bondholder (n.) A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
Bondmaid (n.) A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
Bondmen (pl. ) of Bondman
Bondman (n.) A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.
Bondman (n.) A villain, or tenant in villenage.
Bond servant () A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
Bond service () The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
Bondslave (n.) A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
Bondsmen (pl. ) of Bondsman
Bondsman (n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
Bondsman (n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.
Bondstone (n.) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
Bondswoman (n.) See Bondwoman.
Bonduc (n.) See Nicker tree.
Bondwomen (pl. ) of Bondwoman
Bondwoman (n.) A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.
Bone (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
Bone (n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
Bone (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
Bone (n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
Bone (n.) Dice.
Bone (n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
Bone (n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
Boned (imp. & p. p.) of Bone
Boning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bone
Bone (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
Bone (v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
Bone (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
Boneache (n.) Pain in the bones.
Boneblack (n.) See Bone black, under Bone, n.
Boned (a.) Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.
Boned (a.) Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.
Boned (a.) Manured with bone; as, boned land.
Bonedog (n.) The spiny dogfish.
Bonefish (n.) See Ladyfish.
Boneless (a.) Without bones.
Boneset (n.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
Bonesetter (n.) One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.
Boneshaw (n.) Sciatica.
Bonetta (n.) See Bonito.
Bonfire (n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
Bongrace (n.) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
Bonhomie (n.) Alt. of Bonhommie
Bonhommie (n.) good nature; pleasant and easy manner.
Bonibell (n.) See Bonnibel.
Boniface (n.) An innkeeper.
Boniform (a.) Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
Bonify (v. t.) To convert into, or make, good.
Boniness (n.) The condition or quality of being bony.
Boning (n.) The clearing of bones from fish or meat.
Boning (n.) The manuring of land with bones.
Boning (n.) A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.
Bonitary (a.) Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.
Bonitoes (pl. ) of Bonito