Build (v. t.) To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
Build (v. t.) To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
Build (v. i.) To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
Build (v. i.) To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
Build (n.) Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
Builder (n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Building (n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
Building (n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
Building (n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Built (n.) Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.
Built (a.) Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
Buke muslin () See Book muslin.
Bukshish (n.) See Backsheesh.
Bulau (n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
Bulb (n.) 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.
Bulb (n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
Bulb (n.) 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.
Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Bulbaceous (n.) Bulbous.
Bulbar (a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
Bulbed (a.) Having a bulb; round-headed.
Bulbel (n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
Bulbiferous (n.) Producing bulbs.
Bulblet (n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.
Bulbose (a.) Bulbous.
Bulbo-tuber (n.) A corm.
Bulbous (n.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
Bulbul (n.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.
Bulbule (n.) A small bulb; a bulblet.
Bulchin (n.) A little bull.
Bulge (n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
Bulge (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
Bulge (n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
Bulged (imp. & p. p.) of Bulge
Bulging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bulge
Bulge (v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
Bulge (v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
Bulgy (a.) Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.
Bulimia (n.) Alt. of Bulimy
Bulimy (n.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.
Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.
Bulk (n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
Bulk (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
Bulk (n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
Bulk (n.) The body.
Bulked (imp. & p. p.) of Bulk
Bulking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bulk
Bulk (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
Bulk (v.) A projecting part of a building.
Bulker (n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
Bulkhead (n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
Bulkhead (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
Bulkiness (n.) Greatness in bulk; size.
Bulky (a.) Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
Bull (n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Bull (n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
Bull (n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Bull (n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
Bull (n.) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
Bull (a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
Bull (v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
Bull (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
Bull (v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.
Bull (v. i.) A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
Bull (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
Bullae (pl. ) of Bulla
Bulla (n.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
Bulla (n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.
Bulla (n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
Bulla (n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.
Bullace (n.) A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.
Bullace (n.) The bully tree.
Bullantic (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.
Bullary (n.) A collection of papal bulls.
Bullaries (pl. ) of Bullary
Bullary (n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.
Bullate (a.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.
Bullbeggar (n.) Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.
Bullcomber (n.) A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhaeus vulgaris of Europe.
Bulldog (n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
Bulldog (n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
Bulldog (a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
Bulldozed (imp. & p. p.) of Bulldoze
Bulldozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bulldoze
Bulldoze (v. t.) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.
Bulldozer (n.) One who bulldozes.
Bulled (a.) Swollen.
Bullen-bullen (n.) The lyre bird.
Bullen-nail (n.) A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.
Bullet (n.) A small ball.
Bullet (n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
Bullet (n.) A cannon ball.
Bullet (n.) The fetlock of a horse.
Bullet-proof (a.) Capable of resisting the force of a bullet.
Bulletin (n.) A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.
Bulletin (n.) Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.
Bulletin (n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.
Bullfaced (a.) Having a large face.
Bullfeast (n.) See Bullfight.