English English Dictionary

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.

That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

A carouse; a drinking.

of Booze

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

of Booze

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.

Capable of being bored.

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.

Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Plant of the Borage family.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.

Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.