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A sifting, as of flour or meal.
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
See Bowsprit.
An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).
A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
of Bolus
Same as Booly.
A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
A great noise; a hollow sound.
A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
A bomb ketch.
To bombard.
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
Cotton; padding.
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
See Bombardo.
A bombardment.